Hurricane politics for 9/7

Here we go for hump day:

• Michelle Malkin gives a reason to skip the NFL pre-game show this year and just tune in for the game.

• Just what the Katrina victims need -- Cindy Sheehan is heading their way!

• John Podhoretz's op-ed in the New York Post is a must-read for those with common sense:

  It is now generally accepted in liberal-left circles that the federal government's response to the New Orleans horror was not rapid enough because the majority of the victims were poor — and especially because they were black.

  This is just about as incendiary and horrible a thing to say as can be imagined under these circumstances, and given the circumstances one might have thought a little bit of evidence would be required to offer some support for it. There has been none offered, save for a couple of captions on a couple of photographs released by news agencies that seemed to suggest white looters were just helping themselves to necessities while black looters were committing crimes ....

  ... People used to joke about "white liberal guilt" when it came to race. But there's no guilt here. White liberals feel righteous because they believe they are faultless here — that they and only they care about suffering. They are instead assigning blame to other white people, white people who disagree with their ideology of victimization.

  And so they use the basest slander at a time of tragedy to make themselves feel just peachy about their enlightened, loving and deeply moral beliefs. Well, isn't that special.

Indeed. Just check out the nuts at Delaware Watch, Atrios and the DU for proof.