Have a look at yesterday's NY Times story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/us/10orleans.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
The local media is squealing like unhappy pigs at Dr. Blakely's comments that a lot of the New Orleans locals are "buffoons," the civic elite is "insular," and that the city has "an economy made up entirely of T-shirts." One local show in headlining the story says that Blakely has likened NO to a third-world country, though I didn't see him using that exact phrase in this story. (ETA: Yes, he did use it. See the bottom of page 2.)
He's right on every count, of course. (As for being "insular," I'd be insular too if I could get away with it. Anybody would want to insulate himself from the crime and other problems here.)
Leave it to The Swamp to hire somebody to help them recover, then scream at his sensible, cool-headed observations. How do they expect to recover if they can't analyze the symptoms clearly and won't take their medicine as directed?