Now that the worst is over for the DC and the Big Apple, the media will probably grow bored with the story, and ignore the massive flooding that is already wiping out whole towns in upstate New York, Vermont and other places.
[Update a while later]
Well, it looks like Fox is covering it now.
…has struck the left. The damage will continue for years, I suspect. And they can’t say we didn’t warn them.
Obama takes charge at the Hurricane Center:
I mean really: does he look like a man who has a clue about what to do? Ponder the official NOAA name plate emblazoned with “Barack Obama President of the United States.” Why does that seem ridiculous? After all, he is the President of the United States. Maybe it’s because it put me in mind of that iconic image of Mike Dukakis in his tank. Anyway, if it failed to be reassuring, it did introduce a welcome moment of levity.
I agree with Frank J. that he could be productively replaced with a sack of hammers. As he says, it’s not even close.
The Times couldn’t even wait until the storm was over:
The scale of Hurricane Irene, which could cause more extensive damage along the Eastern Seaboard than any storm in decades, is reviving an old question: are hurricanes getting worse because of human-induced climate change?
And the old answer is, as always…no.
But you can predict warm-monger propaganda like this every time the ocean spins up.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Of course, as Andy McCarthy notes, it might be easier to find a convincing answer to that question if the University of Virginia would stop trying to hide the ball. Speaking of which, no Phil, Climaquiddick was not “manufactured,” the case is not “closed,” and Michael Mann has not been exonerated. That whitewash will not end this.
Wow, it looks like the Lions might actually be for real, this year.
…for Keith Ellison. Bill Keller should be owed a debt of gratitude for opening up this line of questioning.
Really.
What?
Twice this morning on ABC I heard the storm referred to as having emotions. “The ire of Irene,” (OK, I see the alliterary appeal) and “the wrath of the storm.”
Folks, don’t anthropomorphize rotational fluid dynamics. The storm didn’t really have it in for anyone, honest. Besides, it hates when you do that.
Well, obviously, you’re a racist.
Go with Perry. It’s not a great choice, but I have to agree.