To start, would love to open it to discussion, and will take one for the team and be the jerk who starts the political discussion about a tragedy.
My brother emailed me yesterday:
"can we compare haiti to new orleans? aid is there but there is not competent emergency plan to distribute ? even though the UN bldg was flattened -- what have they been doing for years -- considering past hurricanes etc .."
This whole thing is almost identical to Katrina, which the media pinned on Bush. Who takes the fall for the lack of preparedness this time, and why was the Bush admin criticized for taking so much time to get supplies in and the same thing is happening now?
Also, just like South Park called out in the Beaver Dam episode, the media is again inflating stories. They were reporting 500,000 dead, now Red Cross is saying 50,000. Still a high number, but c'mon. They're now reporting looting, but don't appear to actually be witnessing it.