Knight Ridder -- insufficiently deferential

This is how it's done:

Addressing the nation on Thursday night in a speech from New Orleans, Bush said the storm overwhelmed the disaster relief system. "It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal authority and a broader role for the armed forces, the institution of our government most capable of massive logistical operations on a moment's notice," he said.
Several emergency response experts, however, questioned whether Bush and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff understood how much authority they had to tap all the resources of the federal government -- including those of the Department of Defense.
"To say I've suddenly discovered the military needs to be involved is like saying wheels should be round instead of square," said Michael Greenberger, a law professor and the director of the University of Maryland's Center for Health and Homeland Security.
... "They're trying to say that greater federal authority would have made a difference," said George Haddow, a former FEMA deputy chief of staff and the co-author of a textbook on emergency management. "The reality is that the feds are the ones that screwed up in the first place. It's not about authority. It's about leadership. ... They've got all the authority already."

It's elementary: When W opens his yap to speak, what issues forth are lies. And there is no shortage of people eager to say so, with the know-how to explain it in easily understandable terms. And if the rest of the media had been equally skeptical three years ago, we might have saved that $200 billion we now need to restore the Gulf Coast to habitability instead of squandering it on a neocon fantasy that they told W would demonstrate his superiority at presidentin'.