Unsuccessful bail out attempt of the deplorable Blanco in the NYT
Once more, with feeling
The NYT waddles in in a pathetic parody of journalism to try a CYA for the deplorable Blanco:
The governor of Louisiana was “blistering mad.” It was the third night after Hurricane Katrina drowned New Orleans, and Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco needed buses to rescue thousands of people from the fetid Superdome and convention center. But only a fraction of the 500 vehicles promised by federal authorities had arrived.
Ms. Blanco burst into the state’s emergency center in Baton Rouge. “Does anybody in this building know anything about buses?” she recalled crying out.
They were an obvious linchpin for evacuating a city where nearly 100,000 people had no cars. Yet the federal, state and local officials who had failed to round up buses in advance were now in a frantic hunt. It would be two more days before they found enough to empty the shelters.
Let’s see. We wrote about these buses on September 2, and again on September 4, when we wrote that Mayor Nagin had not followed the detailed emergency plans for New Orleans. So now we are 7-9 days later, and the NYT apparently is still clueless as of September 11 about the buses. Oh the pain, the pain. HT’s: Captain Ed and Tom McGuire.
September 10th, 2005 at 8:33 pm
It was just another cases of too many editors and sections. Remember how
Air America and the Boys and Girls Clubs money just “slipped thru those cracks”.
National thought it was for the Style section, as it looks a lot like
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