Hurricane Newt Blows In

Newt Gingrich tries to ask the right question, but, whether out of ignorance or malice, frames it exactly wrong. In case Newt hasn't been reading up (try Path of Destruction or The Storm), the folks in the Ninth Ward weren't caught by a hurricane. They were surprised at 5:30 Monday morning (according to Van Heerden's timeline) by an eighteen-foot-high wall of water as their federally built flood protection structure catastrophically failed. Who's the uneducated oneI'
UPDATE: I missed the opportunity to reply to Westsidegal's post at the time, but since one original motive for this section of this site was to perhaps reduce the sum total of untruthful crap being shoved at us by the media, I can't let her assertion go unchallenged: where was there a single photograph or video frame of "cars floating away"? In addition to all the TV coverage we all enjoyed, I've seen NOMA's encyclopedic "Katrina Exposed" photo exhibit, the Ogden Museum's collection of Times-Picayune post-Katrina photos, and Robert Polidori's remarkable book "After the Flood". No photos of "cars floating away". Perhaps westsidegal is thinking of the photo of flooded school buses? If not, perhaps she'll give us the source for this mysterious image.