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November 5, 2014 — Steven Hayward
The one named Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation. She wrote last night that Obama should double-down on his radicalism: The Obama administration should act right away to use its executive powers to take steps to deal with long-ignored issues that need to be dealt with for the good of the nation. This cannot be done quietly. To change the media narrative, issues acted upon will have to be
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November 5, 2014 — Steven Hayward
John Judis of The New Republic is one of the advocates (along with Ruy Teixeiria) of the “emerging Democratic majority” thesis based on demographics, and the theory looked pretty good for Obama in 2008 and 2012. And it might well be decisive again in 2016. But it’s also the case that issues matter. In Judis’s election post-mortem today, this paragraph stands out: Could Obama and the Democrats have avoided the voters’
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July 9, 2014 — John Hinderaker
Some (including some Democrats) are saying that the crisis on the Southwestern border is President Obama’s Hurricane Katrina. But there are at least two fundamental differences between the illegal immigration fiasco and Katrina. First, the response to Hurricane Katrina was actually the largest and the fastest response to any natural disaster in history, as Popular Mechanics, as I recall, later documented. Second, President Bush didn’t cause the hurricane. The current
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November 4, 2012 — Steven Hayward
If we had a truly objective and unbiased media (I know–stifle those guffaws), we’d surely see some comparisons of the official performance of Obama’s FEMA (reformed, streamlined, and nimble, Obama assured us) with President Bush after Katrina. Bush was pounded nonstop, of course. Obama, Gov. Cuomo, and Mayor Bloomberg–not so much. FEMA has run out of water in the affected area, and won’t get any more until tomorrow. Instead it
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October 2, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
The Daily Caller has obtained and posted video (video below) of a 2007 speech by Barack Obama in Hampton, Virginia. Speaking to an audience of black ministers, and using a black dialect only marginally more authentic than Joe Biden’s, Obama claims that the U.S. government shortchanged Hurricane Katrina victims because of racism. As the Daily Caller says, “the effect is closer to an Al Sharpton rally than a conventional campaign
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August 30, 2010 — Paul Mirengoff
Like most nostalgia, the excessive coverage this weekend of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina signified a yearning for happier days from the past. In this case, it was the yearning of the MSM and President Obama for the happy days when Republicans were the ones having their competence questioned and feeling the ire of the public. But Bill Otis finds deeper, more ominous significance in the weakend of wallowing:
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July 20, 2006 — John Hinderaker
Are the Dems still claiming that the administration has been “incompetent” in connection with removing Americans from Lebanon, just like Hurricane Katrina? I’m not sure; I’ve been traveling on business all week and may have missed the latest Dem talking points. The claim, in any event, is absurd. Austin Bay has some sensible comments on the difficulties involved and the time it takes to get ships from one ocean to
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May 23, 2006 — John Hinderaker
With another hurricane season approaching, Lou Dolinar’s analysis of the medial meltdown over Katrina in Real Clear Politics couldn’t be more timely. Dolinar shows that the media almost completely ignored an extraordinarily successful rescue effort, by the National Guard and others, that saved tens of thousands of lives in New Orleans. In their haste to broadcast lurid (albeit false) stories of chaos and mayhem, the press missed the real story:
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March 2, 2006 — John Hinderaker
CNN and the Democrats–sorry for the redundancy–have jumped on the Hurricane Katrina bandwagon. CNN’s report repeats the factual error that the Associated Press made yesterday, confusing breaches of the levees with overtopping of the levees. President Bush said it wasn’t anticipated that the levees would be breached; the famous video that everyone is watching doesn’t contradict that statement. It talks only about the possibility of levee overtopping. Is it possible
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March 1, 2006 — John Hinderaker
Taking a cue from the CIA, someone in the federal bureaucracy has leaked transcripts and video tapes having to do with Hurricane Katrina to the Associated Press. The AP treats the resulting story as an expose, with the headline: “Tape: Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina.” In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could
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January 22, 2006 — John Hinderaker
To the ever-growing list of worthy milblogs, add Camp Katrina, operated by Spc. Phil Van Treuren of the Ohio Army National Guard. Camp Katrina is dedicated to pointing out that “the U.S. military does much more than just kill people and break things, and telling the good news about our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines every day.” Among other things, Camp Katrina is now assembling a “2006 Weapons Cache Databank,
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January 22, 2006 — Paul Mirengoff
To the ever-growing list of worthy milblogs, add Camp Katrina, operated by Spc. Phil Van Treuren of the Ohio Army National Guard. Camp Katrina is dedicated to pointing out that “the U.S. military does much more than just kill people and break things, and telling the good news about our soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines every day.” Among other things, Camp Katrina is now assembling a “2006 Weapons Cache Databank,
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October 13, 2005 — John Hinderaker
Turns out that the “toxic soup” that flooded New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina wasn’t so toxic after all. Instead, it’s been tested and found to be pretty much the same as “the storm water that is present in New Orleans every time it rains.” Score another one for media hysteria. Captain Ed has the details. I don’t think those water moccasins ever showed up, either.
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October 11, 2005 — John Hinderaker
USA Today has a good article today on the pervasiveness of incorrect reporting about Hurricane Katrina: “Katrina spawned plague of misinformation.” The reporter, Mark Memmott, interviewed me for the story and included a quote criticizing the media’s frequent repetition of Mayor Nagin’s claim that 10,000 people had died in New Orleans.
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September 29, 2005 — Paul Mirengoff
Ever since 9/11 “changed everything,” Democrats and other leftists have been looking for an event that would change everything back, or at least change something. The search — extending, among other locales, from Niger to Downing Street to al Qaqaa to Guantanamo Bay to Crawford — has been largely fruitless. Then came New Orleans. Politically speaking, I never understood why Hurricane Katrina might change anything. Unlike 9/11, it taught us
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September 7, 2005 — John Hinderaker
As a constructive alternative to the finger-pointing, Glenn Reynolds has assembled a list of practical lessons from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. His readers weigh in, too, with some good ideas. Based on this CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, most Americans would join with Glenn’s preference for tangible lessons over assignment of guilt. Respondents were asked to evaluate the performance of various levels of government in responding to the hurricane. Roughly half
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August 30, 2005 — John Hinderaker
Between being down much of the day and having nothing original to add to the excellent coverage being done elsewhere, we haven’t talked about Hurricane Katrina today. The Associated Press has the latest, including reports of widespread looting in New Orleans. The Times-Picayune’s breaking news feed is here. (Via Hugh Hewitt.) This photo is one of many that show the hurricane’s power: The scale of the disaster in Mississippi and
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