Posted on 09/04/2005 7:37:25 PM PDT by F-117A
Yesterday the New York Times editorial board wrote a fire-breathing editorial that for almost 24 hours ranked as the "most-discussed story" on Technorati and the "most e-mailed article" on nytimes.com. The board wrote that "George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday." Instead of "consolation and wisdom," the President offered "a long laundry list of pounds of ice, generators and blankets delivered to the stricken Gulf Coast." The board went on to offer a long laundry list of angry accusations. The editorial board doubted that Bush "understood the depth of the current crisis" — unlike the wizened board, which had been following the crisis on CNN.
The editorial built up to this penultimate paragraph:
While our attention must now be on the Gulf Coast's most immediate needs, the nation will soon ask why New Orleans's levees remained so inadequate. Publications from the local newspaper to National Geographic have fulminated about the bad state of flood protection in this beloved city, which is below sea level. Why were developers permitted to destroy wetlands and barrier islands that could have held back the hurricane's surge? Why was Congress, before it wandered off to vacation, engaged in slashing the budget for correcting some of the gaping holes in the area's flood protection?
Good question. Maybe because Congress listened to the NY Times editorial board in April of 2005:
Anyone who cares about responsible budgeting and the health of America's rivers and wetlands should pay attention to a bill now before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. The bill would shovel $17 billion at the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control and other water-related projects — this at a time when President Bush is asking for major cuts in Medicaid and other important domestic programs. Among these projects is a $2.7 billion boondoggle on the Mississippi River that has twice flunked inspection by the National Academy of Sciences... [snip]Lesson: Don't listen to the NY Times editorial board. (via Don Luskin)This is a bad piece of legislation.
No wonder the Republicans chose the elephant.
Leni
I believe it was Ann Coulter who once pointed out that democrats and the MSM assume that conservatives don't have access to Lexis Nexus. (How is that spelled, anyway?)
The NYTimes was always liberal but it actually was well balanced 20-30 years ago. Now the news articles have that annoying leftist slant. I stopped reading it years ago. The Washington Post is a much better liberal rag
It was a Cat 5, but storms always slow down when they hit land, and Katrina started hitting land a full day before the eye passed over. It's a matter of interpretation, but it was a Cat 4 when the eye made landfall.
It wasn't wind, however, that did in NOLA.
BTTT
very few people actually do. Lexis-Nexis is like, incredibly expensive, isn't it?
Reason for that declaration: the central pressure at landfall was lower than Andrew's, which was upgraded after-the-fact. Both that and the damage profile fit a '5' storm... It's very difficult to capture the sustained wind speeds. But that's simply a side issue ennyhow.
Of course NY times is being consistent: Protecting folks in americas heartland from flooding in 1993 and 1997 was a waste of money but it is not a awast of money for Jesse jacksons proletariat
http://eurota.blogspot.com/2005/09/msm-in-their-own-words-continuing.html
bflr
The New York Times I'm sure has access. At least to their own archives.
This is a funny title.
Why? Journalism went out of fashion a long time ago, you want a job, you train for the job market.
Brit Hume just mentioned this on Fox News!
It was highlighted on Fox news tonight. They quoted Pravda (I mean the NY Times) opposing spending for flood control.
ping!
Typical for the Times: They have no decency, no principles and no integrity.
Gail Collins, editorial page editor for the NYT, is a radical left-wing extremist Bush hater second to none. DO NOT TAKE HER OPINIONS SERIOUSLY.
Classic!
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