Now let's turn our attention to reporting (or not reporting) about hurricanes.
President George W. Bush was castigated by the MSM (and Obama) for flying over but not landing in New Orleans, LA. The MSM failed, and still fails, to mention the reason why Bush did not land: he did not want to disrupt on-going rescue operations. But the MSM failed to make a big deal of inactions by New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin, Louisiana governor Kathleen Blanco, or Louisiana senator Mary Landrieu. Now we learn, in an article by Daniel Halpern, entitled "Obama Will Have Made 7 Campaign Stops Before Visiting Where Hurricane Hit," that President Barack Hussein "kill list" Obama will not let Hurricane Isaac get in the way of his campaigning. He plans to arrive in New Orleans three days after Mitt Romney. And we learn that Obama discussed Hurricane Isaac while aboard Air Force One as he flew to Washington DC from a campaign stop in Colorado. He did not even fly over New Orleans! Did the MSM miss all of Obama's actions? Were they just too busy worrying about Romney's tax returns to report on Obama's Hurricane Isaac actions?
Some of you will say that Hurricane Isaac (Category 1 when it hit New Orleans) cannot possibly be compared to Hurricane Katrina (Category 3 when it hit New Orleans). Well, if that's so, then why does the MSM report on any natural disaster? A natural disaster is a natural disaster, regardless of category (or magnitude or force). But the MSM somehow fails to see it that way when politics are involved.
Double standard? Reporting on a hurricane and after-actions is treated differently by the MSM when politics come into play.
But that's just my opinion.
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— go to most recent comments1 - DGarr
So far, Mr. Romney has released his 2010 tax return, minus some important attachments relating to his overseas investments. (He will release his 2011 tax return October 15.)
As his father George Romney said, when he released 12 years of his own taxes during his presidential run, "one year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show."
Mr. Romney is running for President of the United States.
This is a position of Trust.
Ronald Reagan said, "Trust but Verify."
Mr. Romney has said, "Trust me," re his tax returns.
It is not unreasonable for voters to want to "Verify.
What is the single issue on which Mr. Romney has never flip-flopped? He stands doggedly firm on never, under any circumstances, releasing his tax returns.
Why?
It is not just liberals who want to see Romney's tax returns.
It is 63% of American voters who do.
The longer Mr. Romney delays, the more suspicious it appears.
Obama released 8 years of tax returns
GW Bush 10 years
Clinton 12 years
GHW Bush 14 years
George Romney 12 years.
What is there to hide?
2 - Dr. Joseph S. Maresca
It could be a Secret Service problem for the President of the United States to fly into a hurricane zone.
3 - Glenn Contrarian
Um, Warren -
I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but a news bureau chief of a website (Yahoo) does NOT have his or her finger on the nuclear button. A person whose only weapon is a website makes an untoward comment does NOT compare to a person making a joke about nuclear Armageddon when that person is the single individual on the planet most capable of making it happen.
But that's just reality, and as such has no impact on your opinion.
4 - Zingzing
I hope you do this for fun, Warren.
5 - Dr Hussein "Wedding Guest List" Dreadful
I'm just interested to hear Warren's explanation of how Yahoo! News's immediate firing of Chalain for his off-colour remark about the Republican Convention is an indication of how the media is in the tank for Obama.
6 - Jet Gardner
Did anyone notice that no one invited Bush to the Repubican convention. Maybe they thought out of sight out of mind?
7 - Jet Gardner
Yes Zing, he does this for fun... Oddly I could swear I read this somewhere last week.
I'll have to do some checking.
8 - El Bicho
Fascinating stuff. Not sure what is more amusing. How Warren "known plagiarist" Beatty reveals his own double standard by treating a "joke" differently when politics come into play. The odd non sequitur paragraph about Romney being accused of using coded language that just sits on its own. Or his complete lack of understanding the difference in magnitudes of weather and the way TV works.
He may have had a good point about the similar ways the Presidents acted and the different media treatment, and though he casually dismisses the hurricanes' differences in size and damage as if there is none when in fact there is, he fails to mention Bush wasn't running for re-election when Katrina hit, conservatives would have lambasted Obama for trying to upstage the convention, and likely other items left unmentioned because, in part, I don't want to spend more time commenting than Warren spent "writing".
Speaking of coded language, why not use Romney's full name like you do Obama's?
9 - Jet Gardner
Ahh! I was right... This did seem like I'd recently read it! Click here
10 - Jet Gardner
Oh come on EB, he thought up the "that President Barack Hussein "kill list" Obama" all by himself. That took a lot of effort!
11 - Clav
Are any of you liberals planning on moving away when Romney and those evil Repukeicans win in November?
Costa Rica, the "Switzerland of Central America," is a very nice place and relatively inexpensive; Panama is good too. I personally love Mexico City, but of course it's my home town. And frankly, it ain't cheap; a decent apartment will run ya $3500-$5000 USD or more a month.
12 - Zingzing
Clavos, we have the rest of the world to think about moving to should Romney win. also, we won't abandon ship just like you didn't when your taxes went down because of obummer.
And 3500 to 5000 a month? Come on. What do you consider "decent"? A good place in NYC runs you less than that. Much less. Tokyo agents would kill for those rates. I think you exaggerated.
13 - Zingzing
A quick search suggests that spanky apartments are available for rent in m.c. for less than a quarter of clavos' high bid. Very spanky. I wouldn't call it cheap, but it's affordable. Dunno about the neighborhood.
14 - Jet Gardner
A split congress will prevent Romney from accomplishing anything just the way it's doing it to Hussein Obama now
15 - El Bicho
"when Romney and those evil Repukeicans win in November?"
Thomas E. Dewey suggests using "if" instead of "when" for your presidential predictions.
16 - Clav
Thomas E. Dewey suggests using "if" instead of "when" for your presidential predictions.
It was another time, Bicho, another time. Besides the error was the media's (surprise!!), not Dewey's.
17 - Zingzing
Be sure to remember that the tribune was part of the conservative media, clavos. No surprise there...
18 - Glenn Contrarian
Clavos -
Are any of you liberals planning on moving away when Romney and those evil Repukeicans win in November?
Ironically enough, reporters from the Huffington Post asked attendees at the RNC what they would do the day after if Obama won.
One woman said she'd move to Israel, another woman said she'd move to the Czech Republic, but another said she couldn't move to Canada because they were 'just as bad'. It just strikes me as funny that someone would move to Israel or the Czech Republic because America was somehow becoming 'too socialist' for them....
19 - Not the liberal actor
Re: comment # 4, yes, ZZ, I do this for fun. Reading the comments is always a source of entertainment, especially when commenters contort themselves into knots.
20 - Clav
@#12:
Location, location, location. Where (what neighborhoods) were you looking in?
21 - Glenn Contrarian
Clav -
You can live in the Stuyvesant neighborhood of Manhattan - just a few blocks away from Wall Street in one direction and a few blocks away from the UN in another direction - for a little less than 3K per month. They're not exactly beautiful, but when it comes to practicality of location, they're hard to beat.
22 - Clav
I was asking about MEX neighborhoods (to which zing referred), Glenn.
23 - Glenn Contrarian
Clav -
My bad - I guess I was replying more to zing's comment that contained NYC. Thanks.
24 - Jet Hussein Gardner
His purpose actually is to be able to brag to his right-wing friends that he is an important writer for Blog Critics, and that they admire his work in getting out the word.
Content and accuracy (obviously) are unimportant, in fact they write his articles for him and he just simply copies them down changing a word or paragraph here and there.
25 - Jet Gardner
It's also escaped him that most people under 30 don't even know who Warren Beatty the actor is without using Google and couldn't name more that one of his movies.