Donald Trump pre-empted the liberal media criticism of Republicans not caring about people by visiting last week, which even preceded sitting President Barack Obama. Obama waited up to ten days to visit flood-damaged Baton Rouge, with little criticism from the media, while George W. Bush was criticized for responding to Hurricane Katrina after three days. […]
CNN’s headline read, “Obama tours Louisiana amid criticism that he’s late,” but failed to recognize that Obama took at least 10 days to visit Baton Rouge, when it only took George W. Bush three days to visit New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Trump was there and handed out donations before Obama, as well. As for Hillary […]
On the homepage of NBC News, the feature article was entitled, “White House Fires Back at Critics of Louisiana Response.” It was defensive in tone and did not mention how Obama delayed his visit to the flooded city in Louisiana for at least ten days, due to his vacation in Martha’s Vineyard. Also, the article […]
The Advocate, the local paper for Baton Rouge, Louisiana, said the following about Obama’s golf vacation and resistance to visiting Baton Rouge and cut his vacation short: Like his predecessors, Obama has no doubt discovered that crises keep their own calendar, even when commanders-in-chief are trying to take some time off the clock. It’s an […]
Here’s what a 2008 USA Today column said about George W. Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina: President Bush has shown that he can be empathetic, sensitive and decisive. But those qualities eluded him for days after Hurricane Katrina, and the lapse could become a defining moment of his White House tenure. The most stirring image […]
A column in The Hill blasted the liberal media for overlooking George W. Bush’s smaller delay to visit the disaster-ridden area of New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina: A very simple question, if George W. Bush was president right now and playing golf with celebrities in one of the richest zip codes in the country, would the […]