Bob Costa Misses a Learning Moment

Sometimes guests like Abby Livingston need to be challenged on an issue like Hurricane Harvey.

Jon Cassidy September 5, 2017

One of the best things about leaving Washington, D.C. is that you never again feel compelled to watch shows like PBS’s Washington Week, where the first question on host Robert Costa’s mind Friday night was whether Hurricane Harvey had “changed everything in Washington.”

The important thing about all this suffering was that it had pre-empted some previously scheduled debt ceiling Kabuki show. However, that wasn’t even the worst failure of perspective on display Friday, not even close.   That dishonor goes to Abby Livingston, Washington correspondent for the Texas Tribune, an Austin-based news outlet that takes money from the people it writes about, for blaming the Houston flooding on Houston............ That story claimed that global warming and the paving of wetlands put Houston at risk for more flooding.

My own take is that crypto-Aztecs have been sacrificing too many children to the rain gods. And now that the floods have come, I guess we can both claim to be rightl..........To Read More.......