Someone really needs to tell Max Kellerman: Superdome rapes were myth!

He's on Tucker Carlson's show arguing that the looters who just got slammed with 15 years for looting after Katrina are being punished so badly only because we can't find and punish those awful people who raped children in the Superdome, and "we want to punish SOMEBODY."

Maybe I missed the memo, but my understanding is that there was never any sort of credible proof offered for the rumors that people--especially children--were raped in the Superdome while it served as a shelter.

Has anyone heard any differently?

I mean, yeah, I do think giving people 15 years for stealing booze is a bit much. But it bothered me to see Kellerman on TV speaking as if the Superdome rape stories were proven fact. OK, so I understand how it could be that once you lose someone close to you to a violent crime (his brother was murdered by a boxer a couple of years ago), it can make every sort of crime more credible to you. But you have to stick to the known facts.

Note to MSNBC: Just because a guy used to work for ESPN, had a falling out with them, then moved to Fox Sports, then got his show axed, then ended up returning to ESPN on the radio, it doesn't necessarily make him another Keith Olbermann.

and local officials let run rampant without dispelling them....

15 year for stealing booze....yet this administration can break 750 standing laws and nothing happens to them...

I think that this sentence will wake some Americans up....:wtf:

He wouldn't try to be another Olbermann, that's not his style. I don't exactly know why Max goes on Tucker's show, but he's a good guy at heart. When he makes mistakes, they're honest mistakes, and I betcha Jim Lampley gives him a call and sets him straight. He was trying to speak out against the 15 year sentences because he knows they're wrong, he's just trying to put it in language that the young white male can hear. Confronting the lazy thinking of being satisfied that 'somebody' was punished whether the punishment fits the crime or not is important, it's kind of a backhanded way of confronting the kind of thinking that got us into Iraq. I haven't heard him speak politcally that often because I don't watch Tucker Carlson, but when I have I can tell he is really trying hard to get it right and he does at least lean towards being a Democrat. It took him a while to get boxing right when he first started too.