When did the New York Times learn this?
Tommy De Seno ·
Aug 27, 2011 at 7:45pm
In an article about President Obama and his anticipated response to Irene, the NYT educated the public with this information that seemingly eluded them in 2005:
"The bulk of the responsibility in advance of any hurricane rests with local and state governments, which are in charge of evacuation orders and preparations for flooding or other storm damage. "
Oh...NOW you tell us!
Pinch should head on down to Crawford Texas and make an apology.
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Jun '10
Re: When did the New York Times learn this?
The New York Times understands that "sophisticated New Yorkers are well-enough educated to understand the coming dangers, and how to prepare, but those Southerners down there, in their hillbilly shacks and trailer parks, are....well...not to put too fine a point on it...you know....." If you work for the New York Times, and live in Manhattan, you just know these things.
Edited on Aug 27, 2011 at 8:13pmOct '10
Re: When did the New York Times learn this?
The NYT staff are terrified of Obama losing the election. Here falls the last of the New York Time's credibility. Its journalistic reputation shall not survive the year. Ok, I suck at waxing poetic, but you get my point.
Dec '10
Re: When did the New York Times learn this?
Tommy De Seno:
Pinch should head on down to Crawford Texas and make an apology. ·
Not. Going. To. Happen.
As Prager says, "Being on the Left means never having to say you're sorry."
etoiledunord: If you work for the New York Times, and live in Manhattan, you just know these things. · Aug 27 at 8:10pm
Edited on Aug 27 at 08:13 pm
Phwah!! Riiiight. You mean all those Manhattanites who couldn't tell a spark plug from a piston? The one's who, if they tripped over a generator, would wonder where to plug in the power? And aren't we relieved now that Obama has taken charge at hurricane command center? Whew! What would we do without his expertise?!
During a natural disaster, I'd much rather be hunkered down with the "simple" folk in rural Ohio or Oklahoma than with all the Ivy League educated glitterati in New York.
Apologies to Ricochet's Ivy educated New Yorkers, although I suspect you have the good sense to agree or you wouldn't be on Ricochet.
Dec '10
Re: When did the New York Times learn this?
Western Chauvinist
And aren't we relieved now that Obama has taken charge at hurricane command center?
Can we take this as acknowledgement that his election did not actually cause the rise of the oceans to slow?
May '10
Re: When did the New York Times learn this?
Tommy, how dare you draw attention to the implicit "During a Democrat presidency..." at the start of that sentence!
What's Ray Nagin up to these days? Still pawning himself off as something other than an abject failure, with the acquiescence of media know-it-alls who will never let blame shift from Dubya?
Nov '10
Re: When did the New York Times learn this?
You're doing a heck of a job, Barry.
Oct '10
Re: When did the New York Times learn this?
The King Prawn
Western Chauvinist
And aren't we relieved now that Obama has taken charge at hurricane command center?
Can we take this as acknowledgement that his election did not actually cause the rise of the oceans to slow? · Aug 27 at 9:08pm
On the contrary: Katrina made landfall as a Cat 5 and Irene made landfall as a Cat 1. Simple arithmetic will tell you this means Obama is five times the president that GWB was.
Jan '11
Re: When did the New York Times learn this?
Very nice pickup Tommy! O Irony!
But, don't worry folks, with Obama at the helm, the storm will get downgraded (just like the credit rating of the USA) - you know, the whole oceans will be calmed stuff
Jul '11
Re: When did the New York Times learn this?
Obama rushing to a "command center" where nothing like a command will issue forth from his sainted lips, other than "keep up the good work!", is about as soothing a prospect as any average Constitutional law professor attempting to replace the wiper blades on his Audi. It will not end well.
Mar '11
Re: When did the New York Times learn this?
Check the videos of the channel breaches - You will see that most of Ward 8 was not in standing water at that point. What really lead to the destruction was the fact that the pumps that keep the undersea parts of NO dry were without power. Without the pumps, those places would be underwater in 48 hours regardless of channel/sea wall breaches.
Biloxi, MS got hit by the eye, but since they had effective governance (and more self-reliant people), they didn't have the problems NO had - when the governor/mayors said evacuate, they did, and when they called for help clearing the roads, etc., everyone got busy.
What you are seeing on TV now is that governors and mayors know that the media wont pass the buck to the president for this hurricane, so they better do their job.