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Crocodile Tears and Excuses from Puerto Rico and CNN
American Thinker.com ^ | October 3, 2017 | Brian C. Joondeph

Posted on 10/03/2017 2:24:40 PM PDT by Kaslin

The media, having found a successful play to cripple a Republican president, is trying to run the same play against President Trump. They forget that their entire playbook has been thrown at Trump since he announced his candidacy in 2015, without any success.

Hurricane Katrina was thought to be a turning point in the George W Bush presidency. The less than stellar response from the federal government was hung around his neck. Successfully. Despite ineptitude at the state and local levels. The New Orleans mayor at the time, Ray Nagin, is now in federal prison for bribery and fraud.

They tried the Katrina pass play in Houston and Florida after their recent hurricanes, stymied by a strong defense of competent governors and other state and local officials. Relief efforts in Houston and Florida were efficient and competent. The media had to take a knee.

Puerto Rico is different. San Juan Mayor Yulin Cruz is busy bashing President Trump and hurricane relief. Anderson Cooper from CNN, Johnny on the spot, was there to feel her pain and report her criticism of Trump.

How ironic that the mayor was interviewed with a backdrop of pallets of food and water sitting in a warehouse, rather than being distributed.

Anderson didn’t ask why supplies that are so desperately needed by the people were being used as a photo prop instead.

He also didn’t comment on the fact that nine days after Hurricane Maria hit, “Less than half of the 8,000 members of the Puerto Rico National Guard are on duty” according to the Washington Post. Or how the Teamsters Union, a branch of the Democrat Party, refused to deliver supplies, instead using the hurricane as contract negotiating leverage.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: cnn; demonrats; hurricanemaria; media; msm; presidenttrump; puertorico; trump; unions

1 posted on 10/03/2017 2:24:40 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

anyone watch the puerto ricans go crazy today when our President & 1st lady walked into the aid center to hand out supplies??? there were a group of ordinary citizens at the front who did not want to leave...


2 posted on 10/03/2017 2:29:29 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

I missed it, so I appreciate your mention of it here.


3 posted on 10/03/2017 2:31:26 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: God luvs America

I heard that the main roads have been cleared.

If so, who did that CBs or US military and PRicans?


4 posted on 10/03/2017 2:37:02 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: God luvs America

I missed it, too, but Twitter is trending that he said it wasn’t the catastrophe that Katrina was, plus negative posts about him tossing paper towels and leaving an hour early.


5 posted on 10/03/2017 2:37:33 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Kaslin

Death Toll Katrina: 1833

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=death+toll+katrina&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&lr=&cr=&as_qdr=all&as_sitesearch=&as_occt=any&safe=images&as_filetype=&as_rights=

Death Toll Puerto Rico: 16 (count is one week old)

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/san-juan-mayor-tells-president-trump-politics/story?id=50241205


6 posted on 10/03/2017 2:38:52 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (John McBane is the turd in the national punch-bowl.)
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To: Kaslin
Even Jerry Rivers...knows the Mayor is going to run for Governor...

She's playing politics....during a disaster. Not a new trick with the lying leftist's..............

7 posted on 10/03/2017 2:51:42 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Watch your six.)
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To: Kaslin
Crocodile Tears and Excuses from Puerto Rico and CNN

Many freepers and conservatives already know the game plan of the Rat party political techniques.

We first get to hear their cries from the NY Slimes, the Wash. Compost, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC, and CBS, who are the right arm of the Rat party, BTW.

The cries of the Puerto Rican RATS are that the U.S. Government led by President Trump is not adequately helping out PR after Hurricane Maria gave PR a direct hit of 200 MPH winds, 15 to 20 foot wave surges, dam breaking, homes destroyed, and no electricity.

Also, they do not have any food or water which you need to survive in this world.

There is plenty of food and water stored in warehouses but guess what? Only 20% of the Teamsters Union is working driving the trucks but the rest of the drivers are on strike. Isn't that special? Not!!!!!!!!!!

This is all political tricks by the RAT party.

They play this game all the time.

Folks are in misery and the RATS play a political maneuver just to prove that President Trump and the U.S. government are not helping.

This is the typical BRAVO SIERRA of the RAT party.

Now they are saying the 80% of the Teamsters truck drivers will drive if they are paid cash $$$$ up front for their deliveries. Isn't that special???

Something smells in the state of Denmark????

This is an enormous monumental project to reconstruct PR after this direct hit of 200 mph winds. Electric power will be restored, but it will take some time.

There are huge portable power generators that will be used to bring back electricity. It took us 2 and 1/2 weeks to get power restored in Texas after Hurrican Ike.

President Trump is the only guy that is looking our for the U.S. taxpayer. He is probably down there to tell those Teamsters to start working their posteriors off getting supplies to the needy folks in PR.

8 posted on 10/03/2017 2:56:22 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano
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That “Help Us We Are Dying” shirt is sold on Amazon. Maybe Besos sent her one via Washpo.


9 posted on 10/03/2017 2:59:08 PM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: Kaslin

Like a toddler whining and crying that they are starving because you are not feeding them the candy they were throwing a tantrum for earlier!

10 posted on 10/03/2017 3:03:37 PM PDT by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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I’ll be the first, ‘Mayor Cruz, please step down, tender your resignation you are not fit for office. I have been to PR before, and they do need dog catchers...many stray dogs’


11 posted on 10/03/2017 3:23:33 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (The Left's family value: 'The U.S. is the great enemy of mankind!' (Che Guevara, 1961))
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To: GraceG

We just love this cartoon photo.

This cartoon tells u the whole story.

Partner, Thanks for ur post.

12 posted on 10/03/2017 3:37:13 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano
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To: God luvs America
 
 
Yep - saw that too - lots of applause & smiles. Very warm welcome.
 
 

13 posted on 10/03/2017 7:03:15 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Kaslin

The media shouldn’t attempt to make heros out of partisan kooks, it’s a strategy that always fails.


14 posted on 10/04/2017 9:23:53 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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