Kennedy stoops to politicizing Katrina
August 31st, 2005Owen 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.
When I read this story I thought it was from The Onion. Truth is stranger than fiction.
CNS News reported the French blamed Bush for not supporting the Kyoto Protocol and thus causing global warming and the hurricane.
Oh boy…here we go again.
I’m sure Kennedy was serioius. Just goes to prove that we have more to fear regarding the warming of the atmophere from the hot air spewing forth from windbags like RFK, Jr. than from greenhouse gases.
Perhaps Kennedy is genuinely concerned with the possibility of global warming. I agree that his timing stinks.