Add to Katrina's toll race-tinged rhetoric  Published September
14, 2005  This is where the blame game gets ugly.  "So every
American kid should be required to watch videotape of the poor
in New Orleans and see how they suffered (after Hurricane
Katrina), because they couldn't get out of town," said Fox News
Channel pundit Bill O'Reilly last week on his show, The O'Reilly
Factor .   This was how O'Reilly chose to deflect criticism of
the federal government after the horrific delays in hurricane
relief. Government is fallible, he argued. So why expect it to
save you?  The larger implications of his words also are
obvious. These often poor, often black hurricane victims brought
all this misery and death on themselves, because they weren't
motivated enough to succeed in America.  In the same way that
live coverage of the aftermath exposed the fissure between haves
and have-nots when disaster strikes, the subsequent reaction of
some pundits has unearthed the race-tinged rhetoric they often
use to justify their ar