The Rude Pundit: Right-Wingers Are Conspicuously Silent on the Hurricane Katrina Anniversary

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Michelle Malkin, whose Shih Tzu yips of desperation for relevance have grown hoarse of late, puts the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in context for us all: "(D)on't expect any of these reconciliation-seeking leaders to confront the indelible stain of racial demagoguery left by the left in Katrina's aftermath." Yep, that's right. For Malkin, it's time for the left (especially the black left) to apologize to white people for saying mean things about them because of Katrina. Or implying mean things, as when she slams Jimmy Carter for saying, at Coretta Scott King's funeral, "We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans." That bastard.

The conspicuous silence from the right wing punditeratti on the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was almost comical. While MSNBC and CNN did extensive reporting from New Orleans and with their major show host offering commentary, over on Fox "news," it seems like Murdoch garbled out an order to avoid the topic. For, truly, if the best you've got is Neil Cavuto doing an in-studio talk with disgraced FEMA director and horse wrangler Michael "Brownie" Brown, then your network just doesn't give a rat's ass about the subject. Otherwise, a couple of brief reports, a Shepard Smith thing, and we're out.

Nothing from O'Reilly, from Hannity. Not a word from Limbaugh. No oh-so-precious tweets from Palin.

Indeed, in daring to even evoke Katrina, Malkin stands out as having a kind of idiotic bravery, for she veered from all Beck and all "mosque" to actually speak the name that dare not be spoken: George W. Bush (as in, "Hating George W. Bush means never having to say you're sorry").

You'd've thought someone from the Bush administration might wanna say something, maybe even Cheney or the man hisself. But perhaps he's still waiting for that judgment of history, which he seems to think will vindicate every fuck-up and reverse all the damage he did. Or maybe he's just hoping, aided and abetted by the right, that everyone will just forget he was there.

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[gratuitous]

1. They don't want to talk Katrina

It really marked the beginning of the critical look at Boy George's presidency. Prior to Katrina, cataloguing Bush's fuck-ups was largely dismissed as the peculiar hobbyhorse of the hataz, who just couldn't seem to move on. The media loved Dubya! So manly and presidemential. But once Katrina hit, and the incompetence of the administration laid bare, the media slowly began falling out of love with Bush. It was okay now to notice that things weren't going really all that well in Iraq and Afghanistan. And maybe emptying the Treasury into the pockets of the overrich wasn't the best idea since sliced bread. Critical scrutiny was still pretty laggard, but at least it was happening.

New Orleans died for the sins of the Bushistas.

[Gman]

2. Malkin is batshit crazy, but she's also an opportunistic hack

who takes advantage of the stupid whites that eat her stuff up while she hides behind being a minority. The stupid bitch even wrote a book defending interring Japanese Americans during WWII. She has no credibility with anyone outside the lunatic fringe RW.