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.
Wasn't it the liberals, too, who used to complain about paying big agri-businesses to"not grow crops"? That big Ag was cashing in on CRP money, collecting fed funds to not grow stuff. Didn't that used to be a problem? And now, there should have been more CRP wetlands? Maybe someone with a better idea of ag subsidies can help me out here.
Everybody at the Times seems to be a politically motivated huckster. They should have learned journalism.
Old Grey Lady Losing Her Memory
They may soon need to get real jobs.
That is so perfect.
Thanks for posting this. The NYTimes gets roasted, by their own words.
LOL! Do they not have access to Lexis Nexis?
This is so yummy.
Don't you understand.... The New York Times Editor in Chief has finally realized that the people on the NYT Editorial Board make up stories just like the New York Times reporters do.... so it is perfectly permissible for today's Editor-in-Chief to ignore what his Sub-Editors said in April, because he knows it probably wasn't true when they wrote it!
It's all so very simple!
:!)
NY $li/\/\3z = p\/\/Nt
Great find! The days when the Marxist Media could get away with this are OVER!
Another Dan Rather moment.
The New York Times rhymes with Crimes, so appropriate for the crap this rag puts out on a daily basis.
What sane person would pay earned wages for this rag?
The days of the New York Times and other RAT mouthpieces spewing lies and distortions and 180 degree turns to fit RAT talking points of the day (as in this case) are over.
Gotcha!
Is it possible that the Left can be more transparent about their hatred of Bush by easily tracked position flip-flops like this?
Of course, in the past, there wasn't a blogosphere to catch and publicize them.
Or in the words of their hero: "They actually voted for flood control before they voted against it."
I thought I read somewhere that Bill Clinton had turned
this down also in 1996 or so.
Wonderful find. The MSM is so over.
Yeah Baby! Good work exposing the lunatic habitual liars!
This is so great that words fail me!!
Thanks for posting this.
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