Monday, September 05, 2005

Why Did You Come To New Orleans? For the Waters.1

UPDATE: below.

The blame game has escalated to absurd heights. Yet we can retire, permanently, the delusional, utopian and baseless "Bush is to blame for Katrina's devastation" media-spread mantra. That school of thought is rapidly sinking. Excellent timeline here.

Still, National Review has an interesting suggestion.

More:

Jonah Goldberg:
[Randall] Robinson belongs to the growing ranks of Bush haters and race industrialists who see nothing wrong with saying the worst thing possible about Bush — or about America under his “rule” — because the benefit of the doubt must always be given to any allegation which ascribes the maximum evil to Bush. Robinson wrote “No-one” had come to help the blacks of New Orleans even as it was obvious that perhaps the largest domestic rescue and recovery operation in American history was already well underway.
Rightwing Nuthouse agrees:
The Democrats seemed poised to blame the natural disaster on Bush and the Republicans regardless of what the facts are. If that’s the case and if the left’s allies in the press succeed in spinning the story that way, the Republicans are in trouble in 2006.
Still More:

Another excellent timeline.
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1 See Casablanca (1942):
Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.
(via SC&A, twice, Kobayashi Maru, LGF, The Intellectual Activist, The Corner, twice, Chrenkoff, and [added] North American Patriot)

2 comments:

SC&A said...

Great assortment of links.

We got hooked on the WWJ (weather whack jobs). These guys make the tinfoil hat people look like Billy Graham.

It's a sad day when bloggers are the picture of mental health in America.

@nooil4pacifists said...

Thanks, SC&A, Bernard. I was a bit worried about being accused of mocking the tragedy myself--since it's obvious DU and Kos crazies were born without humor.