Cathy Young presents the worst in tsunami blamethrowing.
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|1.11.05 @ 1:56PM|#
Meanwhile, controversy still swirls around the larger issue of whether the United States is generous enough to the world's poor.
Wow. This was a teeth-clenching sentence.
|1.11.05 @ 2:08PM|#
The article seems completely neutral on whether or not the US is the keeper of the entire world's poor. With libertarians like this, who needs statists?
|1.11.05 @ 2:32PM|#
Wonkette said something snarky and inappropriate? Noooo......
|1.11.05 @ 2:45PM|#
"There were other attempts on the left to use the tragedy to score ideological points: Some environmental groups, for instance, tried to blame industrial development in coastal regions for the scope of the destruction."
See, this why Cathy Young's pose of neutrality, and that of most big media, is so annoying. This is a objectively falsifiable statement - maybe industrial development on the coast allowed the wave to go inland with greater force. Maybe it replaced natural breakwaters with a flat, regular face (which doesn't break up the force of a wave as well). Maybe wetlands were eliminated that would have reduced the impact on the land. Or maybe not.
Either way, this is a statement that can be proven true or false. But because it would tend to favor a leftish political movement if it were true, Young denounces it as inappropriate point scoring, as if its political utility, rather than its factual basis, is the proper metric for deciding whether it is appropriate to say.
|1.11.05 @ 4:48PM|#
Maybe we should apply that standard to you too, joe.
drf|1.11.05 @ 9:17PM|#
Joe!
the comments in the austrian paper der standard suggested that global warming or some sort of us-industrialization were at fault... that's wild stuff there.