The Case for a Cover-Up (Definitely worth reading)

NY Times ^ | September 10, 2005 | JOHN TIERNEY

[Lurker]

Who is this person and what has he done with the real New York Times?

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[MNJohnnie]

All right how did you hack into the NY Times computers and can you make a headline that says Andrew Sullivan is a FLAMING idiot for me before they boot you out?

[neverdem]

For all of those who are too righteous to register with the NY Slimes, use bugmenot.com. It should be good for accessing additional stories in the future.

[SunnyD1182]

The New York Times has surprised me the past 2 days.

[NonValueAdded]

hehehe

[neverdem]

Recycling is Garbage. I guess your not familiar with John Tierney. Check out "Magic Marker Strategy", on that link or the thread that I posted.

[neverdem]

your = you're

[BackInBlack]

Tierney is excellent. I disagree with him on abortion and, I presume, the homosexual agenda. But he skewers liberal myths like no one else. The Times showed some cahones in taking him on.

[GloriaJane]

Wow! Great read!

[Servant of the 9]

It's an Op-Ed, which means the Times believes none of it and it will never make the news pages.

So9

[dead]

Having Blanco sob hysterically before congress when somebody asks her why she intentionally denied food and water to the those stranded at the Superdome is not going to help people get over their uncertainty about electing a woman president.

This is one circus that's not coming to town. The one bit of intrigue is how Hillary will quash it while simultaneously pretending to demand it.

[Wolfstar]

Washington was slow to respond to Katrina's victims...

THIS IS NOT TRUE!!! The claim that the federal response was slow is now the media template, but it is not true.

[skimask]

Heres a logon for the NY times
yoink
forty

[MNJohnnie]

is one circus that's not coming to town. The one bit of intrigue is how Hillary will quash it while simultaneously pretending to demand it.

Demand the Comission be Independent. If the Repbs call her bluff whoever the Repbs put up to chair Dem Media scream cover up. Only prob we have a Bullet Proof Monk. Rudy G. Even the LIBERAL pundits were screaming for him last week. Going to be pretty tough to change tracks after builing Rudy up. "Conservatives" should be screaming of an Independent Comission headed by former Prosecutor and Mayor Rudy G to investigate the WHOLE Disaster Response system. Local,State and FED. Rudy G. gots the guts for it and the rep for it. Let's really tear the lid off this system for once. No more partisan grandstanding if Repbs have dirty laundry bring that out too. Hillary made a CRUCIAL mistake by running out and calling for an "Independent" Comission. She has painted herself into a corner. She got no manuevour rooms. If the Repbos have the guts to snatch the opportunity this is giving them, this could be fun as heck to watch.

[operation clinton cleanup]

That 9/11 commission really cleared things up... even Sandy Berger discovered new information worth keeping.

[operation clinton cleanup]

It's an Op-Ed, which means the Times believes none of it and it will never make the news pages.

But CNN and MSNBC will quote it until the cows come home to roost.

[kcvl]

The problem is that the bulk of the Corps's budget goes for projects far less important than preventing floods in New Orleans. And if the investigators want to find who's responsible, they don't have to leave Capitol Hill.

Most of the Corps's budget consists of what are lovingly known on appropriations committees as earmarks: money allocated specifically for members' pet projects. Many of these projects flunk the Corps's own cost-benefit analysis or haven't been analyzed at all. Many are jobs that Corps officials don't even consider part of their mission, like building sewage plants, purifying drinking water or maintaining lakeside picnic table

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But she (Mary Landrieu) and others from the Louisiana delegation have been shortchanging the levees themselves. As Michael Grunwald reported in The Washington Post, they've diverted large sums to dubious Corps projects aimed at increasing barge traffic, not preventing floods. Ms. Landrieu forced the Corps to redo its calculations when a project to deepen a port flunked its cost-benefit analysis.

Would Congressional investigators focus on these pork-barrel projects?


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Is John Tierney of the New York Times the father of Congressman John F. Tierney of Massachusetts?

[Adiemus]

"The New York Times has surprised me the past 2 days."

I think they are repositioning themselves in order to gain cover from the eminent storm of truth around the corner. They know about all the city and state screw-ups, but haven't reported them so as to maintain alliance with the DNC. Now seeing the writing on the wall, they are starting to distance themselves from the kook left racists.

[neverdem]

Is John Tierney of the New York Times the father of Congressman John F. Tierney of Massachusetts?

I have no idea. This author grew up in Pittsburgh, IIRC. He was a NY Times metropolitan reporter for quite a while before he got this OpEd column.