The Katrina Tapes

So by now you all know that the AP got a hold of some video of meetings Bush and FEMA had before Katrina to prep for the emergency. The LA TImes has links to the videos and some transcripts. Here's what I've managed to find on the topic.

The connection everyone is making is that three days after Katrina, Bush said: "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." Now we all know that's false as weathermen were fearing it before the storm hit. But what's new is that Bush was in meetings 4 days before saying this where people feared the levees wouldn't hold. This leads some to say: "Bush proves to the world that he is a liar". Some but not all, Media Matters points out the NY Times and Washington Post didn't bother to make the connection and neither did ABC's Elizabeth Vargas or MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell in their reports nor did CBS's Bob Orr in his.

Now MSNBC's Joe Scarborough (who I haven't watched but have the impression he's an idiot, can anyone clue me in?) thinks "these Bush tapes won’t hurt Bush so much" because they show "Chertoff was out to lunch, literally" (apparently he was there and asking questions, he's just not on the tapes) and "Brown was deadly accurate in his predictions". He also asks "why are we just now hearing tapes they told us no longer existed?" which is a legitimate question. Apparenlty some media organizations had these videos for 6 months and did nothing with them.