Like a broken record.

Again, with the media.

It will be interesting to see how much media play this gets, since it, er, undercuts some earlier reporting on the story.

Putz is referring to a Popular Mechanics piece which he excerpts giddily, and starting with,

Government or contractor negligence was not discovered.

Yay! No government negligence! In your face Bush haters!

So again, to Putz, the media lies to make Bush look bad, blah, blah, blah. That's his nutty theory, and he's sticking with it. Which is why he totally ignored today's New York Times, in a piece titled, "Army Corps admits flaws in New Orleans levees" (6/1/06):

In a sweeping new study of the causes of the disaster in New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers acknowledged today that the levees it built in the city were an incomplete and inconsistent patchwork of protection, containing flaws in design and construction, and not built to handle a hurricane anywhere near the size of Katrina.

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The chief engineer of the Army Corps, Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, said the report showed that "we missed something in the design," particularly in the construction of the drainage canal floodwalls that caused so much of the flooding.

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"At the end of the day, we have to stand by the decisions," he said. If the Corps builds floodwalls, those floodwalls have to stand up to the test and the system has offer the intended level of protection. "And we didn't get there," he said.

"We didn't get there." That seems to undercut Putz.