Wolf “So Poor And So Black” Blitzer Returns to NOLA

More anguished ponderings from one of our country’s pre-eminent corporate media shills thus ensues (here).

And as noted here, the NBA will hold its All-Star game in New Orleans this weekend, where the Hornets, the home team, are actually playing some pretty good basketball.

And according to legendary New York Knicks great (and Louisiana resident) Willis Reed…

“…sometimes you read, look at television, I see the same footage every time. Every time it comes on the air, I see New Orleans still under water. New Orleans is not still under water. But people think that.”

That’s important to note, sure, but it’s also important to note how far New Orleans has to go; kudos to the NBA, though (including LeBron James here) for trying to give the city a shot in the arm, as opposed to the snub it received from the Commission on Presidential Debates last year (here).

And this New York Times editorial today tries to “light a fire” under FEMA and get that beleaguered agency to find new housing for victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita who lived in trailers contaminated by formaldehyde fumes. The editorial also notes the results of the trailer testing (519 out of 140,000, with 35,000 still occupied) conducted by the CDC at FEMA’s request, though this notes that there are “no federal guidelines or scientific standards on formaldehyde levels in such trailers.”

As the Times editorial also tells us, though, FEMA head R. David Paulison “pledges to find these people new housing before the summer months, regardless of cost. He’d better. Louisiana’s summer humidity will make formaldehyde accumulations far worse.”

Update 2/18/08: Wow, class move, Wolf (seriously here).