1.0 link 42607 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/hurricane-newt-blows-in_b_42607.html 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'
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