Good to see I’m not the only one who noticed that the NY Times and other national outlets tried their hardest to spin to the damning document dump from the Louisiana Governor’s office. Opportunity Prospector noticed how the NY Times and the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported the same story in different ways:

NYT
The documents and correspondence put in full light the rivalry between the White House and the governor, a Democrat, along with the rising anger in Louisiana as requests for federal assistance went unanswered. “We need to keep working to get our national surrogates to explain the facts – that the federal response was anemic and had been shortchanged by budget cuts and avoiding responsibilities like protecting Louisiana levees and wetlands,” Mr. Kopplin wrote in one e-mail message a week after the storm hit.
New Orleans Times-Picayune: E-mail turned over by the state to the congressional committees investigating the hurricane response show that the governor’s senior staff was deeply involved in trying to preserve her political standing and make sure that the White House was blamed for the slow pace of the initial response. “We need to keep working to get our national surrogates to explain the facts