Posted on 05/07/2010 10:30:51 AM PDT by Nachum
NewsBusters on Wednesday shared a truly heartbreaking video with its readers dealing with the Nashville flood that so many people in the nation hadn't heard about due to the media's focus on the Gulf oil spill and Faisal Shahzad.
News outlets are beginning to try to explain to their patrons why such a devastating event got so over-shadowed.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Or- they are just liar-pig democRATs
Because it affected mostly white people?
Nashvillians are busy helping each other in countless ways, and there is little or no looting. Also, they aren’t yelling about what’s taking the government so long, etc., etc. Not much news here.
Because Obama doesn’t like White People?
Bust the levees and let it start flooding the black neighbourhoods, and see how soon the flooding makes the nightly news!
It wasn’t covered because there was no Geo. Bush to blame it on!!!
and Tea Partiers....didn’t they just have a national Tea Party convention in Nashville a few months ago?? don’t think that fact didn’t play into obama’s errand boys in the criminal liberal media ignoring the tragedy....
Yeah, I lived in Cedar Rapids two years back when they flooded, badly, historically badly, thousands lost everything. Almost no coverage in the national media... again, all nice boring quiet white people, no looting or rioting...
I’ll bet the Obama regime is already preparing Barry’s talking points to spin this flood as good news with the main point being that the drought is over!
Because Bush isn’t in office any more?
(and I guess that still makes it Bush’s fault...)
Okay, just how in the world does covering the floods in Nashville help promote Obamamama’s agenda of open borders, high taxes and free condoms for all? What would be the point of “covering” the devastation to ordinary folks in flyover country?
The most amazing part of the story was that the Red Cross set up all these shelters for people whose homes were flooded, but were surprised when hardly anyone even showed up to stay in them. Apparently the idea of people being self-sufficient and/or helping out their neighbors in need is completely lost on a lot of folks from outside "Middle America."
Same thing - Georgia - last year
Because communities of looters and bandits deserve our help, and communities of the law-abiding don’t. Because anything that doesn’t show both the moral bankruptcy and impending collapse of America isn’t news.
Tennessee voted McCain-Palin. We opted out of “hope” and “change,” so we deserve whatever punishment Mother Gaia dishes out. /s
Plenty of black neighborhoods were flooded. Water only cares how low you are, not what color.
Water and gravity matter, black or white doesn’t.
Posted: May 07, 2010 8:35 AM EDT Reported by Kye Parsons (Photo: CBS)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WBOC/AP)- President Barack Obama has issued a major disaster declaration to help Maryland recover expenses from February's severe snowstorms.
The declaration on Thursday combines two separate snowstorms to trigger the release of federal money to help the state recoup money.
The declaration does not say how much money the state will receive, but it begins a process to determine reimbursable expenses.
A letter sent last month by Maryland's congressional delegation noted that the state spent more than $38 million responding to the two storms.
Rep. Steny Hoyer says the federal assistance is needed to help Maryland recover from what was an unprecedented series of winter storms that required an extraordinary response from the state.
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