I haven't read it, but real compassion may be preferable to emotionally overheated empathy.
Posted on 08/29/2017 4:25:45 PM PDT by mandaladon
President Donald Trump traveled to Texas today to survey the damage from Hurricane Harvey and be briefed on the storm relief efforts. During a stop in Corpus Christi, the president treated it much like a campaign rally, highlighting the size of the crowd that turned out to watch him speak.
This afternoon, CNN senior White House correspondent Jeff Zeleny remarked that in his reaction to the historic storm so far, POTUS appears to be more focused on the emergency response, businesses and his crowds as opposed to the victims themselves.
Reporting from Austin, where the president was scheduled to arrive at the state’s emergency command center, Zeleny provided the following observation to CNN anchor Brianna Keilar:
“One thing I am struck by here, seeing all the stories of emotion, all the stories of loss, of devastation still unfolding — we do not know the extent of the damage here — very little in terms of empathy from this president. Very little in terms of emotion or talking directly to the people of Texas. He’s been talking about the businesses, talking about the response and his crowd. Certainly, this is a test, a new moment for this president. But how he’ll ultimately be judged, Brianna, as every president is in a disaster like this, is not on today, it’s on the response and the recovery and how Texas rebuilds if they get federal funds, et cetera, months, perhaps even years, from now.”
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I'd take doe snot over CNN any day.
When Texas and other states were burning up from wildfires, people died, livestock died...nothing from Obama. I don’t remember him even mentioning it.
CNN is ISIS.
Zeleny can’t read minds.
Nor is he an empath.
So that makes Zeleny an uninformed asshole.
5.56mm
Trump could jump into a raging river, save a baby and CNN would say: “But he was wearing his Trump hat, that was bad taste”
When will the news readers ask why Antifa isn’t helping with the rescues?
Hate News.
He should go to an Antifa Protest and find out the meaning of “struck”.
Thanks so much for your useless fvckin’ opinion on nothing, “newsman”.
Liberal media thinks crying is more important than providing a rally message to encourage those who are feeling down.
Has it occurred to the liberal media that many people in the Houston area are veterans of Katrina and are “battle hardened”?
What would this a-hole like Trump to do...have a romantic dinner with every woman in Houston??? Of course if he did that, they would get him for sexual harassment!!!/sarcasm
From the Hillman foundation, JUne 25, 2009
Interestingly, the sexual orientation of an MSM reporter seems to have no effect whatsoever on his competence in discussing these issues. Jeff Zeleny is an openly gay White House correspondent for The New York Times. But when he was asked about this subject by Gwen Ifill on PBS’s Washington Week, Zeleny was unable to articulate a single sentence about the substance of any of gay issues currently facing the president–except to say that gay leaders were disappointed that Obama had failed to extend healthcare benefits to the spouses of federal employees.
I haven't read it, but real compassion may be preferable to emotionally overheated empathy.
Doesn’t know the difference between empathy and sympathy. Trying to demean President Trump and simply broadcasts his own ignorance.
Too stupid and semi literate to even be embarrassed.
Sounds like l’il Jeffie wants Trump to engage in a phony-baloney, dog-and-pony show, in the true spirit of Obama...or maybe ride around in a rowboat with Sean Penn just to “prove” that he cares.
It’ll be the democrats and RINOs in Congress who will try to block the aid needed by Texans when comes time to hand out the money.
Jeffie...you and your little journalism degree (if you even have one) are a zero-sum-gain in this equation called “government”...so, take a pill, and chill.
Hypocritical SOB ... the lack of empathy from the press would be astonishing, except that it’s nothing new. They’re a bunch of cold-blooded lizard-people.
Has Antifa or blm showed up with boats or supplies yet?
???
Demoncraps and Mediascum are masters of the fake “empathy” moments to pull at heartstrings and viewer ratings while doing nothing useful.... or even being counter-productive.
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