[Williams]

The article is idiotic. The city didn't "stringently enforce" federal regulations that everyone wear respirators. What the heck does that even mean? That some workers were lax and didn't wear respirators for their own protection? And all the grumbling that they tried to keep the project on schedule. Big deal. I can't get worked up that this story in any way exposes some big flaw in Giuliani.

Plus it just occured to me, isn't this article REALLY about promoting Michael Moore's new hit piece movie?

[Just Lori]

I don’t give a DAMN about Michael Moore. The slimes continues again and again and again to prove that it’s pages are barely worthy of wrapping fish or lining a bird cage.

What’s frightening is that faithful subscribers to this rag actually view it as some kind of gospel.

[CaptRon]

I am taking some paralegal courses at the local community college. The husband of one of my instructors is one of the lawyers defending the city in these lawsuits. He came to speak a couple of weeks ago and was talking about the respirator issue.

There were plenty of respirators for the workers. Some chose not to wear them for various reasons. A lot of the class were of the opinion that there was no real way to force them to. In addition, a lot of these guys were, in a sense, volunteers, so there wasn't a lot of leverage that could be used. It was also a kind of emergency situation, where the possibility of survivors being found existed, so time was of the essence.

This whole lawsuit is a no win for either side.