. . . and if you missed it you should definitely check it out. I'd heard people saying how bad it will be for the oil to hit the wetlands, but no one really told WHY before. I mean outside of the obvious fact that it would be terribly difficult (damn near impossible) to clean. Last night Rachel explained what the wetlands were, what they do, and how the oil spill will harm the wetlands and ultimately the city of New Orleans and the rest of the country. I'm going to post the video below the jump.
The segments she did on the wetlands had me seriously enthralled, and I think it's the best journalism I've seen on this oil spill since it all started. Of course, I'm not surprised, if Rachel is nothing else, she's a damn fine journalist as opposed to "journalist". I loved how it wasn't political, it wasn't opinion, it was just FACTS. We need more of that and less worrying ("reporting") about the political ramifications.
She has more information on the show's blog. Here's the link for the show posted above. Her blog has a lot of great information, so check it out.
Here's her flickr album from the marsh:
I'm looking for transcripts of the show yesterday for the video impaired.
Update [2010-6-3 10:0:23 by Muzikal203]: Here's the transcript. Just scroll through the Boxer stuff (it was a good interview and all that, but for the purposes of this diary, you want to search the page for "THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW is live from New Orleans. Please stay tuned." and read on from there.)
I won't be updating the diary anymore so people who are watching the videos don't get interrupted.