The 200 bodies are 6, and not a murder among them; the muzzle-flash disarming was made up; the thugs didn't even attempt the prescribed and amply reported armed assault on the hotel...
The murder rate in New Orleans in the week after the storm was not even a single case higher than an average week
You can read more about it here. But here though, is the weird part. I'm under the impression, though maybe I'm wrong, that most of the folks spreading those stories were what most people who aren't somewhere to the right of Rupert Murdoch would admit is "the right-wing media." Fox news, and so on. Aided and abetted by conservative, macho, pro-Bush sites like The Corner.
Where, for example, armchair warrior Jonah Goldberg posted the following on August 29th:
ATTN: SUPERDOME RESIDENTS [Jonah Goldberg]
I think it's time to face facts. That place is going to be a Mad Max/thunderdome Waterworld/Lord of the Flies horror show within the next few hours.
And now, of course, in light of this new information, they're blaming the media. You know, the other guys. Not them. Because they certainly wouldn't have anything to do with spreading any inflammatory, arguably racist rumors.
Certainly not.
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