Thursday, March 02, 2006

The Washington Post, phoning it in as usual.


Yes, yes, everyone else is pointing this out so why not me, but there's an interesting twist at the end. We now have actual video footage of Commander Chimpy McChimpster being warned about the potential devastation of Hurricane Katrina, including a real live meteorologist in front of a radar image warning quite clearly about the possibility of levee failure before the storm hit. You with me so far? Good.

So how do you explain this piece of swill in the Washington Post that talks about this and yet, as John at AmericaBlog points out, at no point mentions Chimpy's subsequent position that absolutely no one could have imagined the levees being breeched? How can you possibly write a news piece and not mention something that relevant?

The Washington Post's new motto: "Striving to make our news department as hopelessly inept as our ombudsman."

1 comment:

The American Anthropologist said...

Does anybody really think that they just came across this footage yesterday?
I am betting (completely sans evidence) that they had this footage and sat on it for a while.