Sean Hannity parachuted into the San Joaquin Valley
last week to broadcast another diatribe about
the "man-made drought." And the maleficent minnow
to blame for it.
Why, a meaningless guppy, in cahoots with
environmentalists, and an activist judge - wackos who
put fish before people - aided and abetted by Barack
Hussein Obama, are turning the Valley into a Dust
Bowl and God-fearing farmers into the Joads.
"To defend this little 2-inch Delta smelt fish," Hannity
marveled, they have decided that the farmers come
second and the Delta smelt comes first!"
To my astonishment, the "fish vs. man" hoax has
hardened into an article of faith on the right.
Could anybody really believe the state's establishment
gob-smacked its most politically powerful interests in
arbitrary defense of a smelt?
Surely this fringe interpretation would swiftly be
dispelled, I thought at first. The truth would come out.
Hannity was a rebuke to such naïveté. The truth will
not come out, because guys like Hannity, playing the
rage of the right like a piano, are fabricating an
alternate reality.
Where to begin? Hannity's show was set in a cotton
farm outside Huron. The farm is fallow for lack of
water. The Grapes of Wrath, Part II: The Joads of
Huron.
Only those ignorant of the oceanic amounts of water
needed to farm cotton are oblivious to the irony. If
water's scarce, cotton shouldn't even be farmed.
"Turn the water back on!" Hannity intoned over and
over, sounding like Moses crying "Let my people go!"
In fact, the water has been "turned on" since June 30.
Last Sunday - to cite a typical day - the state and
federal pumps exported 13,626 acre-feet of water from
the Delta.
The pumps sucked hard enough to make Old River,
Middle River and the San Joaquin River at Stockton
flow backwards.
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