I’m a few days behind on watching video clips online. Watch this interview with Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, from Sunday’s Meet the Press.

There’s a transcript here:

We have been abandoned by our own country. Hurricane Katrina will go down in history as one of the worst storms ever to hit an American coast, but the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history.

Watch the whole thing. Don’t worry, there are no pictures of dying babies or dead bodies floating by. But it will break your heart.

Holy cow. I try not to watch anything on Fox News. It’s bad for my blood pressure. But I’ve been hearing about this clip for days. Go to this story at Crooks and Liars, and watch the video. It will probably take a few minutes for it to download. It’s worth the wait:

Shepard Smith and Geraldo Rivera were livid about the situation in NOLA as they appeared on [Hannity and Colmes]. When Hannity tried his usual spin job and said “let’s get this in perspective,” Smith chopped him off at the knees and started yelling at him saying, “This is perspective!”