Tim Ellsworth

Owen Seaton pointed me to a column by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in which blames Hurricane Katrina on Alabama Gov. Haley Barbour’s role in killing the Kyoto Protocol.

“Now we are all learning what it’s like to reap the whirlwind of fossil fuel dependence which Barbour and his cronies have encouraged,” Kennedy wrote. “Our destructive addiction has given us a catastrophic war in the Middle East and–now–Katrina is giving our nation a glimpse of the climate chaos we are bequeathing our children.”

I’m not entirely sure if Kennedy is serious or not. If it’s satire, it’s poorly done. I’m guessing he’s serious. And, as Owen astutely pointed out to me, it really doesn’t matter. If a conservative had said this, the mainstream media would be soiling themselves.

Regardless of his intentions, it’s pretty tacky of Kennedy to be politicizing a natural disaster like this. What a lowlife.