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?
she’s wasting her time with that one - except for Louisiana, almost no one even knows what that means anymore it was so long ago. the electorate in this country have the memory spans of sand gnats.
I think it’s more of a case that the media will try to turn it into Trump’s Katrina, it’s already beginning.
Yes! Where are those Clinton Foundation dollars?
Problem is ...no one cares. Not a state and the play-of-the-day has already moved on to the NFL. Their problem. Not ours. Nobody votes on what is happening in Puerto Rico, except some NYC West-Side-Story hangovers.
The left are as predictable as the sun coming up.
The Dems are always ready to tie a natural disaster around anRepublican’s neck.
Joy Reid fails to consider that Hurricane Irma hit Puerto Rico with catagory 4 winds up to 180 mph. It was the strongest storm to hit the island in 80 years. When Hurricane Katrina made landfall, it had a Category 3 rating with winds up to 140 mph. There is no comparison.
[She’s right. This will be Trump’s Katrina.]
I’m thrilled that it’s not Hillary’s Katrina!
Perhaps Puerto Rico shouldn’t have kicked out the Navy from Roosey Roads and Vieques. They would have been ready to help out sooner then now at least. Dumb people deserve what they are getting. Sorry but that is the truth.
I’ve left things in the toilet bowl with more journalistic integrity than this creature.
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