Forced Busing

Oyster has a post up with an "article" he notes--and demonstrates--was cobbled together and falsely attributed to the Pic. Smells like swiftboating, if you ask me.

Of particular interest is, once again, the bus question. The linked "article" claims "the city has enough school and transit buses to evacuate 12,000 citizens per fleet run," which is NOT from the Pic, but from an Opinion Journal piece written by Bob Williams, who's expertise on storms and New Orleans is derived from...his stint as a state legislator in Washington (the state, not DC or the parish--that's right, the northwestern state. Geez).

For the record, "12,000" appears to be pulled out of thin air. They can't even do decent research.

Michael of Musing's Musings has a good comment, pointing out that with contraflow in effect, multiple "fleet runs" were an impossibility. He notes the logistical difficulty of finding "x" number of qualified drivers (who presumably don't have families of their own to evacuate). Also consider that some city buses were already in use bringing people to the Superdome.

I expect we'll continue to see nonsense of this type for some time--sort of the last defense of true acolytes, who continue to guzzle the Kool-Aid while refusing to believe their own lyin' eyes. Fortunately, the rest of the public is getting tired of the clown show that's been claiming since 9/11 they know how to protect us--which we now know is utter bullshit.