We don’t have to imagine very deeply. Recall Katrina and Puerto Rico?
This from frontpagemag.com.
The mass propaganda media coverage of Katrina and Puerto Rico was insane—for political advantage, a natural disaster had been turned into the fault of Bush or Trump who were somehow to blame and that they even perpetrated the disaster because they were racists who hated minorities.
NOTE: A natural disaster is entirely attributable to global warming when a communist/globalist is in the White House—the current UN-approved term is ‘Global Boiling—and entirely attributable to negligence and/or hatred when a Republican is in the White House.
There are no screaming local politicos or hip-hop stars on cable news accusing Biden of not caring about Hawaiian people or warning that everyone is dying because the ice cream man doesn’t care.
Even the usual official statement that Biden is not going to Hawaii because he might “distract from relief efforts” meets with a tolerant shrug.
Biden and Harris will not travel to Maui in the aftermath of the devastating wildfires because they “don’t want to distract” from the ongoing rescue efforts—while at least 1,000 people remain unaccounted for.
CSPAN reported that Harris told reporters before boarding Air Force Two for Chicago Friday:
We don’t want to distract from the resources that need to go into the victims of this tragedy, and of course the needs of the first responders have to be able to focus on that issue and not worry about focusing on us [because] we’re there.
Harris stated:
We are coordinating federal resources to swiftly get there to support the work in terms of recovery, but to just support the folks on the ground.
She added:
It is tragic.
And she noted she and Biden:
[A]re deeply concerned about the blaze that has left at least 55 people dead and decimated a beloved historic enclave.
Only that after demanding Trump go to Puerto Rico and attacking him for not doing it, and you can guess the headlines when he did go.
Trump’s Puerto Rico Visit Is a Political Disaster – The Atlantic
Trump Brings His Own Storm to Puerto Rico – New York Times
Something similar happened when George W. Bush flew over New Orleans, rather than landing. He was attacked for not caring enough to visit.
All of this is a cynical game. We know the rules and how it’s played, but plenty of apolitical people take it all in. And it does have a political impact. The coverage of Hurricane Katrina helped crush Bush’s approval ratings while the media’s fawning coverage of Obama’s contemptible hurricane tour helped cement a second term for the destroyer-in-chief.
