In 2005, the Bush Administration was pilloried by the Media for its (mis)handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The Media-generated perception was that Bush was refusing to press the “magic button” that the Blame Stream Media “knew” that Bush had in the Oval Office to stop the hurricane. Never mind that the twin towers of incompetence—Louisiana Governor “Blank Brain” Blanco and New Orleans Mayor “No Noggin’” Nagin sat on their hands and let Bush take the entire blame for this natural disaster. The Media’s role for the next three years was to advance the political agenda of the Democrats by demonizing Bush and Republicans. It worked. We got a Democrat Congress in 2006 and a Democrat President in 2008.
Now the shoe is on the other foot, the current President of the United States is the one sitting on his hands. Louisiana, Mississippi (and other Gulf states) will take another economic and environmental hit. It took him nearly two weeks to react to the explosion of the Gulf coast oil rig. It was as if perhaps he were hoping that this crisis could be used to advance a political agenda, e.g., the demonization of big oil or by driving a stake into the heart of off-shore oil drilling. But this is what happens when politicians are asked to solve problems. They come up with solutions that serve their petty political ends and not the people’s needs.
But where is the Blame Stream Media in all this mess? The truth is that as closeted Liberal-Fascist bigots, they don’t expect much from Obama, and therein lays the problem. The Media is not generating the needed public outrage to get the Federal government in gear. In the past politicians reacted to public outrage. Not this politician, he didn’t care about the public’s opposition to single payer health care. He didn’t care about Islamo-Fascist Army Major Hasan shooting up a military base. When pressed by talk radio, he reacted several days later with a mealy mouthed response that did nothing to assuage public concern over the public's safety from Islamo-Fascist terrorism.
Obama doesn’t give a hang about traditional notions of leadership and protocol. This Memorial Day, he’s not going to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Vice-President Joe Biden will do the honors. Biden will look presidential in doing so. Meanwhile, Obama is going to a Memorial Day ceremony in Illinois. But nearly everything about this “historic” presidency is unprecedented including the continual scapegoating, the colossal arrogance, and gross incompetence. Why should we expect strong leadership from anyone like this? Perhaps such low expectations of Obama might make one a bigot. There are a growing number of bigots out there in the Gulf and elsewhere.
