Waiting for a Leader (Barf Alert: NYT Attacks Bush for Katrina Response)

NY Times ^ | 9/1/05 | Editorial

[nj26]

George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of consolation and wisdom. In what seems to be a ritual in this administration, the president appeared a day later than he was needed. He then read an address of a quality more appropriate for an Arbor Day celebration: a long laundry list of pounds of ice, generators and blankets delivered to the stricken Gulf Coast. He advised the public that anybody who wanted to help should send cash, grinned, and promised that everything would work out in the end.

We will, of course, endure, and the city of New Orleans must come back. But looking at the pictures on television yesterday of a place abandoned to the forces of flood, fire and looting, it was hard not to wonder exactly how that is going to come to pass. Right now, hundreds of thousands of American refugees need our national concern and care. Thousands of people still need to be rescued from imminent peril. Public health threats must be controlled in New Orleans and throughout southern Mississippi. Drivers must be given confidence that gasoline will be available, and profiteering must be brought under control at a moment when television has been showing long lines at some pumps and spot prices approaching $4 a gallon have been reported.

Sacrifices may be necessary to make sure that all these things happen in an orderly, efficient way. But this administration has never been one to counsel sacrifice. And nothing about the president's demeanor yesterday - which seemed casual to the point of carelessness - suggested that he understood the depth of the current crisis.

[nj26]

Their criticism apparently doesn't extend to the governor of Louisiana or the mayor of New Orleans...

[clee1]

And, as usual, their partisan pilotical attack piece is unsigned.

[NavVet]

Almost as much vitriol as that CNN talking head bashing Bush. And they wonder why they keep getting spanked in November.

[texan75010]

Waiting for a liberal to something besides biotch. The world is watching in horror what decades of democratic leadership has done for New Orleans.

[coconutt2000]

If the President had had a long face with tears in his eyes, they would have criticized him for showmanship.

[jwalsh07]

The New York Times should change their name to a more modern Pinkos R Us.

[Billthedrill]

Oh, that's all right. The Times has stepped up to the occasion and written one of its worst editorials of all time, and that's saying something.

This is insane. The focus of everyone in the country not absolutely consumed with hatred is on the disaster area and what to do about it. That was, after all, the focus of Bush's brief speech - what we're going to do about it. The editorial board of the NY Times evidently considers that secondary to their self-proclaimed mission of tearing the president down. It isn't the first instance of this - they have already forgotten or dismissed the 3000 of their fellow citizens who were basely murdered on 9/11 in favor of that same project.

[michaelt]

Nothing Bush could have done or said would have been good enough for the NYT. Eff them.

[axes_of_weezles]

The hurricane released a whole lot of rebid barking moonbats in NYC. First JFKJR now the NYT. I'm waiting for a new superhero from NYC. Moonbatman.

[zarf]

LOL! With this editorial, NYT has become a parody of itsef!!

WOW!!

[DTogo]

If John Kerry were President he would have been on the phone to Chirac and Kofi to see if Katrina meets passes the Global Test, and then off to the Presidential Swift Boat to machine-gun (in the back) some looters in the "French" Quarter.

[Paleo Conservative]

Drivers must be given confidence that gasoline will be available, and profiteering must be brought under control at a moment when television has been showing long lines at some pumps and spot prices approaching $4 a gallon have been reported.

There is a shortage of refined product nationwide. When does the NYT want people to start conserving? Now or when there are long lines at gas stations where there is not enough fuel at the fixed prices?

[neodad]

He was too busy reading "My Pet Goat"

[Txshep]

BUT WAIT! THERE'S HOPE!

TEDDY KENNEDY, along with several cases of Blended Scotch is planning to show up with other notable singers such as Charley Rangel (hymns), Robert Byrd (to part the waters), Maxi-Pad Waters (to "your verb here") and Arianna Huffington (also to part the waters).

Kennedy has a choice of these close to home favorites:

Bridge, On the Bridge, At the Bridge, From the Bridge, To the Bridge, Bridges, London Bridge, Bridge 1, Bridge 2, Up on the Bridge, Chelsea Bridge, Under the Bridge, Bridgeton, Bridgette, G.W. Bridge, My Bridge, No Bridge, T.P. on the Bridge 1, Low Bridge, Bridge of Sighs, Bridge of Love, Bridge to 'Bama, Bridge View, Bridge Work, Tollbridge, Bay Bridge, Boy on the Bridge, Bridge Mix, Bridge of Air, Bridge of God, Bridge of Gor, Bridge One, Bridge Out, Bridge Six, Bridge the Gap, Bridge to the Sun, Bridge Two, Bridge, No. 3, Bridge, No. 4, Bridge, No. 5, Bridge, No. 6, Bridge, No. 7, Bridge, No. 8, Bridgecage, Bridgeless, Bridgeport, Bridgetown, Fox on the Bridge, Off the Bridge, Old Bridge, Our Bridge, Owl and the Bridge, Pin Bridge, SFX-The Bridge, Sun Bridge, Bridge (Envy), Bridge 2001, Bridge Blue, Bridge Call, Bridge Five, Bridge Four, Bridge from Eden, Bridge from Fear, Bridge Game, Bridge Head, Bridge of Fate, Bridge of Fire, Bridge of Hope, Bridge of Life, Bridge of the Gods, Bridge on Fire, Bridge to Alba, Bridge to Burn, Bridge to Hope

Get your tickets now!

[nj26]

"their self-proclaimed mission of tearing the president down"

The NY Times has a dual mission: get rid of Bush, and replace him with Hillary.

Let's just pray that George W Bush has the common sense to not appoint his father and Bill Clinton to steward the rebuilding effort.

[EagleUSA]

And, as usual, their partisan pilotical attack piece is unsigned.
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The NYT is a dead entity. Toilet paper for those in need and fodder for the slobbering radical left that needs their daily dose of liberal hate bull excrement....

[nopardons]

The N.Y. Slimes isn't even good enough to wrap garbage in.

[WarPaint]

[CFC__VRWC]

After all but ignoring the aftermath of Katrina so they could focus on bringing us every single pearl of "wisdom" uttered by "Mother Sheehan", the NYT all of a sudden wants us to think it actually cares about what happened there? Yeah, right.

[RoseofTexas]

How I wish the NYSlimes offices were located in N.O!! I hate the NYfishwarp with a passion!! SOB!!