This week marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans on August 29, 2005. If the storm wasn’t deadly and devasting enough, political idiocy began rising faster than Katrina’s floodwaters receded. Everyone with an ideological ax to grind began blaming their political opponents for causing the storm or exacerbating its damage.
The tactless blame game was later mercilessly lampooned in a South Park episode titled “Two Days After the Day After Tomorrow.” The stand-in for the storm was a flood caused by the destruction of a nearby beaver dam. Rather than prioritizing the rescue of flood victims, the boys and the townspeople focus instead on where to place blame. Targets included global warming, George Bush, terrorists, the mayor of the town and FEMA.
Of course, the farce wouldn’t have been finished until Eric Cartman (the show’s reliable anti-Semitic jerk) blamed his friend Kyle Broflovski (who is Jewish) for not using his “Jew Gold” to help flood victims.
Al Gore must have missed the episode, because he certainly didn’t get the joke.
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