Posted on 08/27/2016 5:31:10 AM PDT by Kaslin
The recent flooding in Baton Rouge is a study in media bias if you compare it to media coverage of Hurricane Katrina.
While Baton Rouge flooded, President Obama continued to play golf at Martha’s Vineyard as if nothing was happening and the media gave him a pass. George W. Bush was accused of being a racist when he cut his vacation short and did a flyover of New Orleans back in 2005.
Talk about double standards.
Without a doubt, media coverage of Katrina was a hack job done by Bush-haters who wanted to paint the sitting president in the worst possible light.
Because they had an agenda they failed to report about what may well have been one of the most successful search-and-rescue operations in American history.
NBC News’ Brian Williams missed the real story because he was busy misreporting un-facts about un-events that the Washington Post said he perhaps “misremembered” the same way he did about his helicopter ride in Iraq. Williams and NBC News were awarded the 2005 Peabody Award for coverage of Hurricane Katrina. The award website states NBC reported on “all angles of events related to Hurricane Katrina” including “disintegrating social conditions” in New Orleans and for posing “difficult questions to government officials…dealing with issues of race and class…”
They covered all angles? What a bunch of bologna.
Williams was eventually relieved of his duties as NBC anchor for the kind of tale telling one would expect to hear while sipping hot cocoa around a campfire at Lake Wobegon.
Williams and other media hacks conveniently passed over the real story… about what went right when Mother Nature went wrong. A Real Clear Politics piece, “Katrina: What the Media Missed,” reports that upwards of 100,000 lives were saved. Sure, FEMA missed the mark, but a lot went right. While the media were looking for bad news and a thousand ways to blame it on Bush, our well-prepared military was busy saving lives, delivering babies and restoring law and order.
Which leads us to Baton Rouge, where flood waters ravaged homes and torrential rains delivered death and destruction – and the mainstream media ran cover for their golden boy who found time to pull away from his merriment at Martha’s Vineyard for a posh Hillary fundraiser but was far too busy to fire up Air Force One to pay a visit as Comforter-in-Chief.
Let’s not forget that Bush-43 was castigated by the media and liberal pundits -- including President Obama for the fly-over they misconstrued as aloofness.
From the Senate floor, a preachy Obama said, “We can talk about what happened for a few days in 2005 and we should. We can talk about levees that could not hold…about a president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane instead of down here on the ground to provide comfort and aid.”
At least Bush showed up.
The outright hypocrisy of Obama golfing while the waters rose in Baton Rouge after making political hay out of his predecessor’s so-called indifference makes no difference to the Bush-Deranged-Syndrome media crowd who continue to cover for the guy who promised that waters would recede on his watch but obviously didn’t.
Of course! You'd have thought George Bush was some kind of monster! The same for the media coverage of the Abu Graib mess. For weeks and weeks, leading into months, you'd have thought by the reporting in the NY Times that nothing else was going on in the world and that the AG mess was the absolute worst criminal act to have ever taken place on the planet.
This is the media. This is what they do. They're doing the same with Donald Trump now, with all the bad press they continue to shove down our throats. Yet, they ignore completely the criminal, scandalous acts of H. Clinton.
The media is the enemy.
The media is indeed the enemy
How about this... Hillary gets a heads up that the KKK is going to endorse her on a given day. On the day before the announcement, releases an and she gives a rant accusing Trump of being in bed with the KKK, which the media gives wall-to-wall coverage to, without calling her on her lack of actual content. The next day, Hillary gets the KKK endorsement and the media is silent, leaving ‘limited information’ voters with the totally wrong impression that she is the anti KKK candidate and Trump is racist.
The RNC watches without comment.
The media is indeed the enemy
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Instead of reporting the news, they shape it to push the liberal agenda and run cover for their favored politicians. The media is nothing more than a purveyor of propaganda.
Don’t be surprised. The media exists to promote leftist causes.
You are 100 percent correct.
Good point. As for the RNC, they’re getting to be as bad an enemy as the media.
The story of “Katrina” was almost exclusively focused on New Orleans which was not the hardest hit region (and it ignores a stripe of Louisiana that got hit with a second deluge a month later when Rita passed through the country).
Police looting stores, police ranks having inflated (and paid?) numbers, a mayor who sat on his hands, a governor who didn’t want to send in the National Guard...
There is a lot of DEMOCRAT corruption in the New Orleans Katrina story that isn’t covered nationally. #BlameBush is considered “real” while everyone gets it that “ThanksObama is a hyperbolic gripe about anything that ever happens, (”they forgot to put ketchup in my order with the fries, thanks Obama!”).
The boy king has been a lousy president and he attacked Bush (even questioned in patriotism when it came to raising the national debt) all in the name of Rat Partisanship hate speech.
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