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Machiavellian on 10 September 2019
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KLAMarine said:
Machiavellian said:

You can choose whichever part you see fit to argue about.  Since the article gave you a timeline on each event, feel free to throw your best effort.  Since it is you who dispute the article, I am sure you must have something you feel is not correct.

Well we can start with one of the images on the CNN page itself:

The article states: "There was a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast, from two days earlier, that had found a tiny portion of southeastern Alabama might be affected by Dorian. (The "cone of uncertainty" extended a few miles into the state.)"

However, if we read the top of the forecast, it states "Hazardous conditions can occur outside of the cone." That means Alabama was still very much at risk of feeling some of the hurricane.

The way the article reads, I have to wonder if the writer was aware of the text atop the forecast.

Yes, I guess that very small part which barely touches Alabama could have some strong winds.  But that was 3 days before Trump tweet which by that time, Alabama was no longer in the path at all.  We continue to go over the same dumb part which appears you are not getting.  We already know Trump was using old data when he made his tweet. Actually I would state that he wasn't even using old data he didn't understand the data given to him.  The reason he was questioned on his tweet when he made it was because Alabama was no longer in the path of the Hurricane at all on Sunday.  Instead of Trump just admitting Alabama is no longer having a hint of being touched by the Hurricane, he continued to try to convince everyone he didn't make a mistake.  Here is his tweet on Sunday. 

"In addition to Florida -- South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated,"

Just digest that part for a moment and hopefully you understand the English language (I am not making assumptions on where you live or what language you speak natively) on the "Much harder than anticipated" part.

During that article it clearly stated that Trump mentioned that NEW data was coming in showing that Alabama was going to be hit, but there was never any NEW data showing Alabama being touched at all.  If you can show at any point during or after his first Tweet of NEW data showing the hurricane touching any part of Alabama, then you might have a case.