FEMA Director Blames the Poor for their Plight

Yesterday CNN interviewed Michael Brown, Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. After insisting that "Things are going relatively well" in New Orleans rescue efforts and agreeing that the death toll will be in the thousands he said:

"Unfortunately, that's going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings," Brown told CNN.

"I don't make judgments about why people chose not to leave but, you know, there was a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans," he said.

"And to find people still there is just heart-wrenching to me because, you know, the mayor did everything he could to get them out of there.

"So, we've got to figure out some way to convince people that whenever warnings go out it's for their own good," Brown said. "Now, I don't want to second guess why they did that. My job now is to get relief to them."

Brown neglected to mention that the 134,000 people in the city who had no form transportation to take them out of the city were directed by authorities to go to the Superdome for shelter.