Ok, now that the pot has returned to luke-warm -- thanks for the much needed cool off period guys! -- I'd like to offer a sincere apology to Craig for my part in the motive-questioning inquisition, and an apology to everyone else for participating in the derail. People are suffering and instead of discussing it I'm focusing on someone's frank posting style. My bad.

Now back to the topic. Fox News' coverage of this disaster is softening up the reality of the situation. After Pres. Bush's tour of the devastation, he held a pointless news conference, fawningly played by Fox News with no follow-up commentary whatsoever. He still has no more to say to the thousands of suffering but to sit tight because help is on the way.

And get a load of this. If you ever had any doubt that Fox News was the propaganda arm of the Republican Party, look at the front pages of three different news web sites taken at noon today.