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Flicking through the channels on the TV the other night I stumbled across an interview with George Bush's former Deputy Chief of Staff, Karl Rove. After witnessing an especially cringe making hip hop turn at the Washington Correspondents' Dinner (if you haven't seen it take a look at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV-CV1ifS4 here]. It really is jaw droppingly awful) attention turned to weightier matters, most notably Guantanamo Bay and the war on terror and the Bush administrations administration's response to Hurricane Katrina.
Needless to say the American right's very own Prince of Darkness was robust in his defence of the Republican Party's handling of both situations. His emphatic response to what happened in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina particularly caught my eye as I'd just finished Dave Eggers' non fiction novelisation of the disaster in his rather excellent new book Zeitoun. To say that the two accounts contradict one another is something of an understatement.