Not to steal any thunder from my distinguished colleague Harry Shearer, but I can't help but notice that the coverage of John Edwards' campaign event in New Orleans repeats and reinforces what Mr. Shearer calls "the 'natural disaster' meme" of that city's devastation. To repeat a question from another context, do the reporters even read their own newspapers?
For example, there's the New York Times blithely captioning the locale as "the backyard of a victim of Hurricane...
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