What's very long and in slow motion? Obama's response. On Tuesday's MSNBC "Morning Joe" one of the talking heads wondered why Obama hasn't toured the BP disaster area. Why hasn't he gone to New Orleans?Watch ABC's Diane Sawyer stroll the beach followed by a soundbite of tiresome Obama pimping his "tireless" efforts to quell the BP mess more than a month after the disaster. er
Cut to Katie Couric in sunglasses on the oil-tarnished waterfront devoting half of Monday night's CBS Evening news to the BP disaster and WH inaction.
NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams: ""Because the story out of the Gulf of Mexico has not changed in over a month and because there's oil spilling into that water right now and of every minute of every day, the anger and despair there are now taking a toll."
ABC's Jake Tapper reports Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is so frustrated with the Obama WH foot-dragging on allowing Louisiana to build barrier islands to block the spill, he says he'll build them himself and risk jail.
On ABC's "Good Morning America" Tuesday a.m. Philippe Cousteau Jr. called the disaster "a nightmare."
UPDATE: Obama's interrupting his Chicago Memorial Day weekend to fly to the Gulf Friday.
Cunning photo-op strategy. Nobody'll be watching TV on a holiday weekend.
Can it be that the liberal press Honeymoon is finally over and the Administration will be looked at more objectively?
ReplyDeleteWe'll see, Bobcat. Obama's gotten a 30-day pass on this oil spill. If it had been a Republican WH, can you imagine the media froth?
ReplyDeleteover 30 days and finally get coverage by the drive-by media but still not like it was for bush, obama goes to chicago this week-end for the memorial holiday but will stop by LA. friday, he knows that he is starting to get the blame for this, he has been a no show for most of this, sean just played a soundbite of imus getting all over dodd, dodd of course was blaming bush, the real joke is what joy behar said, its all cheneys fault and halliburton, oh please people wake up to these crazies, and I'm talking to the press and media.
ReplyDeletealso wanted to add, and was reminded just now on fox, what about those 11 oil workers killed in that explosion, where was all the press and media on this and especially obama, I know its only 11 but thats 1 to many and tell that to those families, those men have one of the hardest and dangerous jobs, most of them have to leave their families for weeks at a time, they will work 14 days straight and then go home for a week or if lucky two weeks, there is no room for one mistake, everyone has to be totally alert at all times, one mistake by your co-worker can cause a major problem or someone to lose their life, thats why drug test are done constantly, they do it because the pay is good, also most of them are quite young, I think it is just outrageous that obama has not paid that much attention to it and is just now caring or at least pretending he is. now that I have vented my outrage I feel better.
ReplyDeleteI think what moved Obama was former Clinton henchman James Carville's blast last week and again this week that Obama wasn't realizing the political implications of ignoring this thing.
ReplyDeleteover 30 days and finally get coverage by the drive-by media but still not like it was for bush, obama goes to chicago this week-end for the memorial holiday but will stop by LA. friday, he knows that he is starting to get the blame for this, he has been a no show for most of this, sean just played a soundbite of imus getting all over dodd, dodd of course was blaming bush, the real joke is what joy behar said, its all cheneys fault and halliburton, oh please people wake up to these crazies, and I'm talking to the press and media.
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