Well..that didn’t take long...lol.
The media only want to serve up another excuse for Obama’s (bad) economy.
The earthquake and hurricane were a stroke of luck for Obama.
After the Darth Vader bus tour and jetting off to the Vineyard for a frolic we were all set up for ten days of unanswered bashing of his cluelessness and uselessness.
The disasters, such as they were, changed the topic of conversation away from the economy and the void that is Obama’s Presidency.
He got lucky.
they didn’t desire chaos as much as they relished the thought of obama capably managing the disaster so they might compare that with Bush’s supposed mis-handling of Katrina.....
By the way, Katrina was as much a failure of the governed as it was a failure of the government....
We have Obama in the Oval Office and Harry Reid running the Senate. Any more chaos from here will be a rounding error.
I, for one, would say that with a hurricane it is better to err on the side of caution. As long as people don’t get a “cried wolf” too many times mentality I have not problem with the media’s “hype” as Irene approached.
I’m with ‘media opportunism’.
The media is just practicing it’s wag-the-dog in preparation for Fool Sucka’s takeover as dictator.
I kept my TV off of the news channels all weekend, that’s all there was was hurricane coverage. I’m not even close to the east coast so my interest was non-existent in this event.
I think they were hoping for another Katrina, not because they really wanted people to die, but they want Obama to be shown as a great leader and doing great things.
They are tired of giving him an ‘A’ for pointing at a cat and saying, “bird”.
There was little to nothing about this storm when it was ravaging the Bahamas. Only when it threatened to smear Shep's makeup did you start hearing screeches from news anchors.
Well of course this whole thing was hyped, the media was going to portray Obama as this great leader and then make the case for raising taxes on all Americans as part of the recovery of the East Coast.
Bad news sells. The newspapers’ motto: “If it bleeds, it leads”.
I spoke with my brother Sunday (who lives in Cape May which was ground zero for this storm) and he claimed no visible damage anywhere. I live 40 miles further upstate and I saw no visible damage. We’ve had NorEasters that caused way more damage. We did get a lot of flooding though.
If it bleeds, it leads, we all know this. It isn’t surprising to see the media circus in overtime mode basically begging for a mass killing. Sharks gotta eat.
I get sick and tired of Rush’s naysaying about weather predictions. He should become a meterologist and get a job at the National Weather Service if he’s such an expert.
Don’t get me wrong: of course events of all kinds can be overhyped. BUT:
FAILURE OF THE WORSE CASE SCENARIO TO MATERIALIZE DOES NOT NECESSARILY EQUAL OVERHYPE-ation.
Thank you.
Further, Rush is wrong on the civics lesson here: Disaster preparedness and response is integral to both law enforcement and national security. As such, it is one of the few functions that the federal government is SUPPOSED to do.