From Newsmax:

CNN’s “American Morning” host Soledad O’Brien said Tuesday that Hurricane Katrina evacuees housed at the Superdome were worse off than beheading victims in Baghdad.
The normally mild-mannered newswoman offered the overwrought observation while speaking at Redbook Magazine’s “Movers and Shakers” awards luncheon in New York.
According to the New York Daily News, O’Brien blurted out:
“It is a sad thing to watch military veterans cry as they tell you the beheadings in Baghdad were less horrific than what they saw as 30,000 people marched from the Superdome through a shopping mall and onto buses to who knows where.”

The obvious difference between the what happened at the Superdome and what happened to the victims of terrorist beheadings is the difference between life and death. According to the New Orleans Times-Picayune, the deaths that occurred in the Superdome were not in any way comparable to the grisly death that Nick Berg suffered at the hands of his captors:

Following days of internationally reported killings, rapes and gang violence inside the Dome, the doctor from FEMA – Beron doesn’t remember his name – came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated 18-wheeler and three doctors to process bodies.
“I’ve got a report of 200 bodies in the Dome,” Beron recalls the doctor saying.
The real total was six, Beron said. Of those, four died of natural causes, one overdosed and another jumped to his death in an apparent suicide, said Beron, who personally oversaw the turning over of bodies from a Dome freezer, where they lay atop melting bags of ice. State health department officials in charge of body recovery put the official death count at the Dome at 10, but Beron said the other four bodies were found in the street near the Dome, not inside it. Both sources said no one had been killed inside.

Anyone familiar with Nick Berg’s case has to be a little dismayed that O’Brien would repeat such an inaccurate comparison.