This e-mail has the sting of truth:

MSM credibility has the glide pattern of a brick.
But not only does the MSM have a lot to answer for, but so do the
pundits who lost their heads amid the chaos and turned a hurricane of epic
proportions from a natural disaster into a manufactured public relations
disaster for America, and a manufactured political disaster for the
president. Pundits who were so quick to criticize the president. Pundits
who, paradoxically, in an effort to show their independence (“look how brave
I am, I am not afraid to criticize the president!”) fell in lockstep with
the MSM by rushing to be first with an angle or an opinion and not waiting
for accurate information. So the MSM and the pundit class beat up the
president because he was not sensitive enough to the horrors being shown on
TV, horrors that were largely manufactured or grossly out of context with
what was actually happening on the ground, namely the most impressive
disaster relief response by the federal government (Coast Guard and other
military branches) and the private sector that was saving thousands of lives
and pouring billions dollars of resources into the stricken area.
I pay a lot of taxes expecting that the government will be there in
times of awful need, but I don’t expect miracles. Although I would prefer
that every government official–from the lowliest staff member through the
president of the United States–would always perform at the top of their
game, I would never hold them to such a standard. My government–our
government–after all, is comprised of flawed people just like you and me.
I don’t pretend to speak for all red staters, but this “heartland”
American is not interested in watching the MSM and the pundit class perform
their traditional navel gazing routine for the next few months and then move
on. A simple apology would go a long way. Just an acknowledgement that the
MSM and the pundit class did a grave disservice not only to the men and
women who were putting their lives on the line to save people, but to the
hundreds of thousands of victims who persevered with dignity and class.
Just an acknowledgement that the MSM and pundit class’s unprofessionalism in
a time of crisis unfairly portrayed America as a society and culture as a
reflection of its lowest common denominator, that miniscule fraction of
humanity that is always ready to prey on human weakness and misery.