Good Morning America, How are ya?

Obviously, the damage done to the city of New Orleans, and the corresponding meltdown have been the news. Hopefully, if some good comes from this tragedy, it will be greater awareness about the problems facing the underclass. The people in New Orleans, the ones who were unable to evacuate, were there for a reason. They didn't have the money to leave. The problems facing the underclass are the great under-reported story that is always unwritten. But the horrible problems with the response, and now, the stories about funding for the levies being diverted are becoming embarassing, and they are taking away from where the attention should be focused, getting the people still there out and then repairing what's left under the water.

And by the way...yes, a conservative group has said that New Orleans got the Sodom and Gomorrah treatment, that God destroyed the city for its wicked ways.

Just in case there is any question about what a schmuck Sean Hannity is, here is proof of his schmuckiness. Last week, a soldier from Indianapolis was being buried. As has been there custom at military funerals around the country, Reverend Fred Phelps and his church/members of his crazy-ass family, the same people who protested at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, picketed the funeral, essentially saying that the death of the troops was a result of America's tolerance of homosexuality. While the people who attended the funeral essentially ignored the protests, the local media did not. This was what Hannity said on his show: "The protesters were headquartered in Kansas. They traveled across the country to demonstrate against a soldier." And you know something? I guess this is just another example of how the anti-war left supports our brave troops. 'Cause isn't that what they always say? They're disrupting the funeral, tormenting a grieving family. Can you believe I even have to bring this story to the airwaves? And creating an incredible spectacle in the middle of an occasion to honor a guy who died serving his country? But of course, they're supporting our troops. They're not supporting them; they're targeting our troops!"

Now here's the really significant problem I have. Hannity had to know he was lying through his teeth, I simply refuse to believe that anyone with a nationally syndicated radio show, even if they are conservative and pushing an agena, wouldn't know who Phelps is, and what he was doing. There have been other stories about these protests in the past. This means that Hannity deliberately misrepresented facts to promote a political agenda, which I suppose he might well do anyway. But here, it such an obvious lie, and there are enough people who probably took this as fact and believe that anti-war protestors are the worst kinds of people. Which they aren't. Sean Hannity and Fred Phelps are.