Not even mega-storms can stop right-wing hacks from spewing their venom - By Alex Pareene
Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012 05:06 AM +1000
Sandy’s most obnoxious responses
Jonah Goldberg
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/30/the_most_obnoxious_responses_to_hurricane_sandy_so_far/
Some people can’t stop being assholes for even a few hours.
Brit Hume is claiming that the federal government isn’t helping with relief because D.C. government employees went home early in advance of the hurricane, and John Podhoretz says the federal government will have no role whatsoever in cleanup, which is obviously completely untrue. He then deleted that tweet and said instead that the feds will help but “will not lead” and also certain parts of the government don’t count as “big government.” (The parts that do good things don’t count, obviously.)
Meanwhile, at the Corner! Greg Pollowitz puts up a one-sentence-long post that somehow contains two glaring inaccuracies. It is not a photo of Marines defending the Tomb of the Unknowns during Hurricane Sandy, it is a photo of the Army, and it was taken in September, during a regular rainstorm.
And Jonah Goldberg is preemptively mad about so-far hypothetical and very unlikely plans to maybe delay Election Day, on account of residents of multiple states possibly being unable to vote because of the horrible storm that incapacitated much of New York and New Jersey.
And Mitt Romney is still pointlessly collecting canned goods that the Red Cross doesn’t want — goods that are in Ohio, not New York or New Jersey, where the hurricane was — and claiming his rallies are “relief events.” (Just write a big check to the Red Cross, admit you don’t have the power or authority to do anything else, and get on with campaigning, Mitt. Christ.)
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/30/the_most_obnoxious_responses_to_hurricane_sandy_so_far/