Dont Provoke, Just Investigate
I remain intrigued by an implication raised the other day by Erin Aubrey Kaplan, the Los Angeles Times essayist. She wondered if there werent a racial component to past inspections of the hospital. Maybe black King/Drew is being held to a different standard than a white hospital? That could be a meritorious avenue of exploration as long as you understand that its core problems were caused by the ill-chosen, incompetent people running the hospital, not an out-of-town inspector. Disappointingly, Ms. Kaplan, not a particularly serious person, only dropped her suggestion on the discussion table for purposes of provocation instead of pursuit. Instead of acknowledging and addressing the corruption, incompetence and financial irresponsibility of the hospitals leadership, black politicians noisily are aiming their blame at anyone who is not black. Of all targets, Congresswoman Waters, one of the buffoonish loudmouth racists in Washington, faults the Los Angeles Times for driving King/Drew to the ledge of the abyss. Her main argument is that King/Drew should be kept open just because it should be kept open. Yes, she concedes, the situation is bad. But why did the newspaper have to disclose the corruption? How is that for providing immoral leadership? Introspection and insight are her enemies. Self-respecting blacks should be embarrassed by her. If Ms. Waters, a shrill bully, had any self-respect, she would be embarrassed. She must have auctioned off all of her mirrors. In the present edition of the weekly Los Angeles Sentinel, Ms. Waters, a human bullhorn, is granted 60 inches of space, half of a 6-column page, to rant irrationally, which is her signature, that the Times is the villainous cause of King/Drews latest crisis.
Waters Rages Sun Rises in East Again
In the manner of tinhorn demagogues, Ms. Waters blatantly contradicts herself in her heavily self-congratulatory piece. While faulting the Times for discovering corruption and bringing it to public attention, she quietly concedes, The community recognizes that there are serious problems at (what she calls) MLK Hospital that absolutely must be addressed. But after 29 arrogant years in public life, she remains airily confident such illogical rhetoric will neither be noticed nor punished next month at the polls. Three decades in public life have left her inured against corruption. Amazingly, the following theory is at the center of Ms. Waters sternest charge against the Times: MLK Hospital has been placed under a magnifying glass, and many of us believe that undercover operatives assisted in sabotaging MLK by giving access to various areas of the hospital to L.A. Times reporters and sharing confidential patient information. Throughout her essay, Ms. Waters repeatedly returns to the same ground yes, there is corruption and incompetence, but I object to their exposure. Aging, acerbic and artless, the tone-deaf Ms. Waters admits near the end of her essay that she is going after the Times because the newspaper previously spoke badly of her. In her world, where corruption is justifiable as long as it is kept out of public view, this perception warrants payback.
