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From the Huffington:
The national media's focus, rightly, heads now to Joplin, Missouri, to survey and dispatch from the scene of a devastating killer tornado. It's already been declared a state of emergency, with federal relief on its way, but if a recent pattern is any indication, the attention will be fleeting. And if that does end up being the case, perhaps Spike Lee has his next movie project.
Lee received a Peabody Award on Monday for his second documentary series on the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, this one titled "If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise." A companion piece to his first HBO-aired look at the weather-beaten city, "When the Levees Broke Right: A Requiem in Four Acts," this new documentary explores the fledgling rebuilding effort undertaken by the city's citizens. Yet Lee isn't just looking forward -- he had sharp words for former President George W. Bush, who was in office when the hurricane crashed through the already crumbling levees.
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