"So, we continue to assert that, no matter how boggy it is, the Reflecting Pool reflects TDS with perfect clarity."
"A reader chastised us for an editorial we’d written a couple of weeks ago about the left’s unhinged reaction to the Reflecting Pool work that President Donald Trump had authorized.
“This article aged like milk,” the reader commented. “Paint is already peeling off and floating to the top. The real question is who got the $14MM and why was it a no-bid contract? Those are illegal.”
"Let’s back up a bit. Before the work on the Reflecting Pool was finished — part of Trump’s effort to clean up the city’s monuments before the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration — critics were pulling their hair out, saying that it would ruin the aesthetic by making it look like a swimming pool.
“'Was the freakout worth it?” we asked. (See: “Now We Know: The Reflecting Pool Reflects TDS.)
"In the days since that editorial ran, problems have emerged with the renovated pool, including the reemergence of algae and the (supposed) peeling of the blue-tinted material applied to the bottom that was meant to seal leaks.
So, has the editorial “aged like milk”? Not if you read it. The point is as valid today as it was then. The freakout was entirely unfounded.
At the time, we had no reason to believe that the work had been done in a shoddy manner. (We’re still not entirely sure that the “peeling paint” story is even true, given the untrustworthiness of the hysterically anti-Trump mainstream reporting these days and the willingness of Trump haters to sabotage things.)" . . . More..
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