The Berlin Airlift

The Berlin Airlift has been mentioned a time or two today, as reporters try to get their heads around the scale of the evacuation and relief efforts underway along the northern Gulf Coast. Earlier, I heard Geraldo Rivera mentioning something about the Berlin Airlift, and something about the Kennedy Administration, but I was only paying half attention while I did chores. Beyond a brief curiosity of what had happened in the Kennedy years that would provide perspective on today's events, I didn't think about it much.

It turns out that Rivera was saying that the Berlin Airlift happened during the Kennedy administration, according to Donald Sensing. Oops. Send that reporter back to history class, or get him a better research assistant, or something.

Sensing is wondering if he should make Geraldo Rivera a separate posting category on his One Hand Clapping blog. The man provides comic relief, he says.