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As Think Progress points out, Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myershas picked up Chertoff's lie that the national response to the hurricane was based on newspaper headlines stating that "New Orleans Dodged a Bullet." Sure, they're right to point out that the New Orleans TP headline read "CATASTROPHIC." But the extent of the lie is much MUCH worse than that.

Thanks to Washington D.C.'s Newseum, we have access to PDF's of 477 front pages from Tuesday, August 30, 2005. If you can stomach it, click through. Look for yourself. You'll find headlines with words like killer, devastation, grievous, deadly, fury, savage, deluge, destruction, chaos, reels, ravages, screams, battered, nightmare, thrash... It goes on and on. "Most of the papers," Gen. Myers? This is ALL of the papers. And not one of them - NOT ONE - is anything less than crystal clear about the extent of the crisis. NOT ONE.

But look beyond the lies for one second, if you can. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is relying on non-existant Tuesday morning newspapers for his intelligence on one of the greatest disasters to hit American shores. That's his excuse. "I red the paper, and it said everything was A-OK!" Think about that for a second.

Top to bottom, its time to take this country back.

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