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September 2, 2005
Katrina and the Knaves
Posted by Dave Blount at September 2, 2005 7:24 AM
As they say, every cloud has a silver lining. Even Katrina has had its positive aspect — at least for left-wing pundits. They have creatively managed to distort the unfolding tragedy into an opportunity to take cheap shots at our President at a time of national crisis.
A NY Times editorial yesterday sniped at President Bush with a bitter nastiness that was unseemly even considering the source. Finding nothing consequential to fault him with, they basically accuse the President of being complacent because he didn't panic. The editorial notes that there had been complaints in the past about "the bad state of flood protection" in the Crescent City — but fails to mention that these complaints go back for centuries. Then, just when you thought the Gray Lady had finally outgrown it, the Global Warming card is played.
Speaking of the NY Times, remember Howell Raines — you know, the pompous leftist who resigned in disgrace from his position as the Gray Lady's Executive Editor in the aftermath of the Jayson Blair scandal? It seems he is still around and still a disgrace. His nasty views now reach us from the pages of the other Times, the one on the left coast:
The churchgoing cultural populism of George Bush has given the United States an administration that worries about the House of Saud and the welfare of oil companies while the poor drown in their attics and their sons and daughters die in foreign deserts.
Thanks, Raines. That rhetoric should help lift everyone's spirits.
Not that the two Times have a monopoly on this type of helpfulness. Pam at BlogMeisterUSA passed along a link to a Sidney Blumenthal piece on Spiegel Online that manages to blame Bush not only for New Orleans' vulnerability to flooding — which has been a feature of the city for almost 300 years — but also for an alleged shortage of condoms in Africa.
It's nice to know some people are managing to enjoy themselves in the wake of Katrina.
