The hapless Editorial LiveJournalists wrote up a doozy for the big Sunday Outlook section: an editorial about how President Bush KNEW those levees were at risk of being breached:
Although reports documenting the federal government’s slow and inadequate response during last summer’s Hurricane Katrina disaster have already been issued, video of President George W. Bush’s conference call briefing from his Crawford ranch on the eve of the storm’s landfall has provoked new criticism of his leadership during the disaster.
While Bush stated days after the storm that no one expected a breach of the New Orleans levees, the tapes show experts warning him of that specific possibility.
Did the Editorial LiveJournalists watch the tapes? Because the tapes do not show experts warning President Bush of the specific possibility that the levees could be breached, and the AP was forced to issue a late Friday clarification acknowledging that point, which blows up the editorial’s thesis.
How do things work at 801 Texas Avenue, anyway? When are Sunday editorials written? (We can guess.) Who handles corrections/clarifications? Where is editorial board member James Campbell?
Isn’t this weird? If the Editorial LiveJournalists are going to take weekends off, maybe they should consider having a backup editorial ready, for instances like this.
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