NY Times Ed Board: Fairweather Flood-Control Fans

NRO ^ | 9/2/2005 | NRO

[ConvictHitlery]

NYTimes and MSM is at war with Bush.
They used Katrina to score a big PR victory.
And the truth and honesty are the last things on their minds. They will sell their mother if this will somehow hurt the President.

[B Knotts]

ROFL

Typical Slimes/MSM chicanery.

[thoughtomator]

Exactly what I've learned to expect from the Slimes.

[Cosmo]

They're not stupid, they're nuanced.

[narby]

The Times.... the Times... Are they some media organization or something?

[mwyounce]

Ha ha ha.... Why am I not surprised????

[Right Wing Assault]

Sweet post! So, they must agree with Bush while disagreeing with him. No problem. They are schizoid.

[Just Lori]

Oh man, we gotta get this out!

[flaglady47]

Oh man, we gotta get this out!

I e-mailed this info to assorted Fox Cable News talk shows. Hope they bring it up.

[garbanzo]

Great. And it illustrates one of the most annoying memes I hear about this issue. To put federal budgeting into household budgeting terms - it's not about whether or not you fix the roof - it's about whether you fix the roof or fix the water heater. If you fix the roof, the water heater could burst. If you fix the water heater, the roof could break. But of course in liberal-land, federal money (i.e. your tax dollars) is infinite and thus no choices have to be made.

[neuroconservative]

Better yet -- did you realize that the New York Times ran not a single article on Hurricane Katrina the day before it struck. This, despite the paper's editorial claim that "everyone knew [the disaster] was coming." I have the rather amusing details up on my blog.

[Grampa Dave]

Great find and post. The lunatics who run the NY Slimes must hate the internet. No longer can they say something in April in their editorials and take the opposite side in Aug/Sep to smear our President.

[mewzilla]

Paging the Times-Picayune....

[mainepatsfan]

They really have contempt for their readers.

[stopem]

What sane person would pay earned wages for this rag?

Probably the same ones who don't "earn" wages, they are the gimmee crowd, to them govt is there for one reason...to support them and their families for generations.

[gpapa]

It is time to use some ammunition from the environmentalists against the prognosticators at the NY Slimes.

From the Grinning Planet©, Saving the Planet One Joke at a Time, Copyright 2004 © Mark Jeantheau — All rights reserved

ECO-LOGICAL
NEW ORLEANS--JUST NORTH OF ATLANTIS?
March 09, 2004
The Problem with Louisiana's Disappearing Coastal Wetlands

Will New Orleans sink into the sea like the mythical Atlantis? Will mermaids be lifting their shirts to get strings of beads? Not likely, but over the last 50 years, the state of Louisiana has been losing more than 40 square miles of coastal wetlands each year. And since the wetlands act as a storm buffer, their disappearance will leave New Orleans more exposed to the effects of big hurricanes.

[as they say in Bloggersville, read the whole thing}

[alancarp]

There's also this puzzling little tidbit in their current writings: "Why were developers permitted to destroy wetlands and barrier islands that could have held back the hurricane's surge?"

My points:

(1) Somebody needs to show me where a barrier island or wetland was eliminated in the LA/MS area. And New Orleans, in particular is actually 50-70 miles inland. It's problem was clearly the levee breech.
(2) Barrier islands, in and of themselves, do little to hold back a 20-30 foot storm surge. In their "natural state", they are merely flat sand bars 1-3 feet above sea level that the water crosses with little effort.
(3) Developed barrier islands, one could argue, would actually help slow the storm surge from reaching the mainland with such ferosity -- particularly with large, wide casinos being in the way. But even this didn't really help.
(4) Wetlands? Used to "hold back" a hurricane's surge? LOL! It's written as if they believe the entire Mississippi River Delta was drained! Actually, such a move might have saved New Orleans, but of course the enviro-whackos would have freaked.
(5) Finally, the NYT owes an explanation about what specific barrier island programs were on the chopping block that would have had any impact whatsoever to stopping a Category 5 hurricane in this area. Crickets chirping...

(P.S. - I know it was 'officially' a Cat 4, but I'll bet a gallon of gas that it will eventually be reviewed and upgraded -- maybe in a few years).

[alancarp]

Rush will parade this one for everyone to hear - he likes the NRO.

[mewzilla]

Or in the words of their hero: "They actually voted for flood control before they voted against it."

Well put!

[George W. Bush]

Great find by NRO! NYT hypocrites. Better bookmark this one for all the sanctimonious NYT stories that are sure to follow.