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'Nero' at the 'Petting Zoo': Joy Reid Claims 'Puerto Rico Is Trump's Katrina'
Newsbusters.org ^ | September 24, 2017 | Tim Graham

Posted on 09/24/2017 7:17:20 PM PDT by Kaslin

In case you didn’t get enough MSNBC on TV, you can check out Joy Reid on The Daily Beast with a wild and woolly editorial headlined: “Puerto Rico Is Trump's Katrina: President Donald Trump … does not care … about brown and black people.” (Ellipses in the original.)

At least it was marked “OPINION.” It also had the unsubtle subheadline “NERO.” Reid began with the usual flourish:

As a dam cracked in Puerto Rico, spreading fear across an already devastated island, Donald Trump was in Alabama, calling a black former NFL player a “son-of-a-bitch.”

During a 90-minute rant that veered from incoherence to the raw belligerence we’ve come to know in the Age of Trump, the madman who is president went after sidelined NFL quarterback Collin Kaepernick without calling him by name.

This is pure DNC advertising copy....or maybe a nasty NAACP commercial spiking the race card. So when Trump actually interacted with African-American hurricane victims, Reid dragged out a nasty "petting zoo" metaphor: 

Trump visited Texas, making a petting zoo out of black evacuees and writing his name on a wall. He vowed to visit Puerto Rico, too. He called the governor. But mostly, he focused on his preening, and stage stalking in Alabama, where the contest to replace his attorney general in the U.S. Senate gave him a chance to do the thing he loves most: be Donald Trump.

Reid was reminding readers of 2005, when rapper Kanye West used a Katrina telethon to trash President George W. Bush who "didn't care about black people." It was a low blow, one that Bush said really hurt. So of course, Reid wants to drag that metaphor out for another use: 

How will history remember Donald Trump’s response to the serial natural disasters that flattened U.S. territories and hemispheric friends in the Caribbean? How will it record a president who with his party dismisses climate change as a hoax, whose sympathies come by tweet, and who spends the days of devastation for American territories largely populated by black and brown citizens, preening in Alabama?



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: berry; chuck; hurricane; media; msm; nastywoman; puertorico; racebaiter
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1 posted on 09/24/2017 7:17:20 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Are your absolutely sure that isn’t Jerry Reid?

Just sayin’....


2 posted on 09/24/2017 7:20:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national puch-bowl.)
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To: Kaslin

She’s right. This will be Trump’s Katrina.


3 posted on 09/24/2017 7:20:38 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: Kaslin

Puerto Rico needs to be evacuated.


4 posted on 09/24/2017 7:22:11 PM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Western Civilization- whisper the words, and it will disappear. So let us talk now about rebirth.)
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To: Kaslin

Reid is another imbecile dude in a James brown wig.


5 posted on 09/24/2017 7:24:23 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (When your business model depends on slave labor, you're always going to need more slaves.)
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To: Kaslin

So tired of racists like her spouting off inanities and the MSM abets.


6 posted on 09/24/2017 7:25:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s Puerto Rico’s Katrina and no one else’s. They didn’t invest in their dam and have no one else to blame, just as the politicians in New Orleans ignored their levees.


7 posted on 09/24/2017 7:26:36 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: DoughtyOne

Dats a bald lady wearing a John Edwards wig! And it don’t fit too good!


8 posted on 09/24/2017 7:26:59 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Kaslin

Heck. Puerto Rico is not even a State. Give them complete independence and wish them well. Send them the usual amount of aid we send small nations in this circumstance.


9 posted on 09/24/2017 7:27:00 PM PDT by oldplayer
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To: Kaslin

STFU already.

Not you Kaslin :)


10 posted on 09/24/2017 7:27:30 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked ouokt of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Kaslin

Wow.

How original.

Big storm, big problems, it’s Katrina.

Even though he already won on Harvey.

Real genius that Joy person.


11 posted on 09/24/2017 7:28:01 PM PDT by Regulator (No Joy From Her Though)
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To: Steely Tom

“:^) Well, that’s better than what I was thinking.


12 posted on 09/24/2017 7:28:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national puch-bowl.)
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To: skr
They didn’t invest in their dam and have no one else to blame, just as the politicians in New Orleans ignored their levees.

Maybe they ignored the levees themselves, but they sure didn't ignore the federal moolah that was sent down to keep them in good order.

13 posted on 09/24/2017 7:28:53 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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“How will history remember Donald Trump’s response to the serial natural disasters that flattened U.S. territories and hemispheric friends in the Caribbean?”

Those “hemispheric friends” are the ones who “wants to get PAID” for global warming - trying to attach themselves to American taxpayers’ wallets when they aren’t even Americans. FWIW, there is now plenty of work for illegals here if they’ll relocate to Mexico City to rebuild...


14 posted on 09/24/2017 7:29:05 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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The Trump administration is aggressively involved in assisting Puerto Rico in numerous ways including:

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) continues to coordinate federal support for U.S. Virgin Islands’ and Puerto Rico’s response efforts. Federal partners are aggressively working to meet and overcome challenges to opening ports and restoring power to bring additional life-saving commodities and personnel into disaster-affected areas.

FEMA Urban Search & Rescue

U.S. Coast Guard (USCG)

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) successfully opened five airports in Puerto Rico, and two airports in the U.S. Virgin Islands, for military and relief flights to bring in commodities, and lifesaving and life-sustaining resources. Federal partners established a fuel distribution site in San Juan for federal and local entities, to support first responder and critical facility needs.

Flights and sea vessels loaded with commodities are arriving or awaiting airport/port clearance for delivery:
•Six commercial barges transported and delivered meals, water, generators, cots, and other commodities to Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

•An air bridge is established, flying three flights per day to St. Croix, each carrying approximately 33,000 meals.

•The logistics support ship SS Wright arrived carrying more than 1.1 million meals, and nearly one million liters of freshwater.

•Two shipping barges with 1.2 million liters of water, 31 generators, and more than 6,000 cots arrived in St. Thomas.

•Two additional shipping barges loaded with food, water, and emergency relief supplies are en route to the Caribbean Sea from Florida.

•Millions of additional meals are being flown to Puerto Rico from staging areas in Kentucky and Florida.

•The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is transporting a shipment of 124,000 gallons of diesel fuel to Puerto Rico, with arrival in the coming days.

A lot more here:
https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2017/09/23/federal-government-continues-hurricane-maria-response-and-relief-operations


15 posted on 09/24/2017 7:29:49 PM PDT by toldyou (Even if the voices aren't real, they have some pretty good ideas.)
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To: Kaslin

Did she have any pronouncements when the Marxist Conflicted was in office?


16 posted on 09/24/2017 7:32:10 PM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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To: Kaslin

What’s Ho Reid doing to help?


17 posted on 09/24/2017 7:35:21 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Democrats want to teach anal sex in school. Republicans want to teach gun safety.)
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To: Kaslin

Trump says he’ll visit storm-ravaged Puerto Rico
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3587822/posts


18 posted on 09/24/2017 7:37:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Kaslin

Joy.... what a misnomer.

19 posted on 09/24/2017 7:40:04 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Kaslin

The f*ckheads have trying to get Trump like they got Bush. They never give up.


20 posted on 09/24/2017 7:41:21 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Constantly doing things in opposition to human nature is insanity.)
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