Never-Ending Katrina Bias  Four years after the hurricane, the
networks are still trashing the federal government for failing
people who still live in federal trailers. None of them can
manage to wonder when these "victims" will be responsible in any
way. The only "incompetence" is the government's. Four years
have elapsed since one of the most amazing cases of Republican-
bashing media bias in the television era began. The media elites
laugh when preachers say immorality causes God to send
hurricanes, but they suggested with straight faces that
Hurricane Katrina was a death sentence President Bush and his
cronies brought to the less fortunate.  In the early spin, race-
baiting rapper Kanye West and "objective" anchors like Brian
Williams were in rhetorical sync: George Bush didn't care about
black people. On "The Daily Show," Williams said "everyone" knew
Bush would have done better if white people were endangered:
"Everyone watching the coverage all week, that kind of reached
its peak last weekend, kept sayin