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January 7th, 2007 by alexis stahl

Some of my picks from snopes.com re:NOLA

True

Did New Orleans’ mayor turn down a $5 million to remove cars wrecked by Hurricane Katrina?

Did ‘The Price Is Right’ air an episode offering a trip to New Orleans as a prize?

Did a National Geographic article fortell the flood that devastated New Orleans?

Did Barbara Bush say the refugees being housed in the Astrodome were ‘underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them’?

Woman’s death notice directs ‘gifts be made to any organization that seeks the removal of President Bush from office’?

False

Photographs show a 21-foot crocodile found swimming in the streets of New Orleans?

Advertisement for Heineken beer employs New Orleans ‘looter’ imagery?

Did comedian George Carlin write a list of ‘Hurricane Rules’?

Did Katrina evacuees brought to Utah sell drugs, attempt rapes, and rebuild street gangs?

Hmmm…

Photographs juxtapose human and canine evacuees from New Orleans?

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