The next few weeks will see a furious struggle to frame two important anniversaries, with the media spinning in overdrive to play up the importance of the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and at the same time to downplay the significance of the five-year anniversary of September 11. The reasons are simple: Katrina helps Democrats, 9/11 helps President Bush and the GOP.

60 Minutes is already getting geared up, but Mayor Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin didn't help his cause - or the MSM's - with his quip to CBS's Byron Pitts that, "You guys in New York can't get a hole in the ground fixed....."

That's nice. Let me give a little piece of unsolicited PR advice to Mayor Nagin: comments like that will quickly have the country siding 95% with New York and against New Orleans.

I get pissed just thinking about Nagin contemptuously describing the ground where Islamist's attacked and murdered over 2,500 Americans as simply "A hole in the ground."

I'd love to see a full scale, accurate and honest documentary covering the entire Katrina crisis period of Mayor Nagin and the New Orleans city government and compare that to Mayor Giuliani and New York City's response to 9/11.

The press can continue its crusade against George W. Bush (and there is no question the Federal government made mistakes in their handling of Katrina), but as more and more of the truth comes out, the historical facts are going to prove that to the degree someone, or government, is to "blame" for this natural disaster, a large part of the responsibility falls on Nagin and the City of New Orleans.

UPDATE: To prepare for the media onslaught that is coming, it's worth reading (or rereading) Lou Dolinar's piece for RealClearPolitics in May that tries to take a look at what really happened with the some of the state and federal governments response to Katrina, as opposed to the media's overarching theme that George W. Bush was either incompetent, didn't care, or both.