{"id":1664679,"date":"2022-09-29T13:37:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1664679"},"modified":"2022-09-29T13:38:55","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T17:38:55","slug":"nowadays-everything-is-political-even-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nowadays-everything-is-political-even-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Nowadays, Everything Is Political \u2014 Even The Weather!"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnowadays-everything-is-political-even-the-weather%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1664679&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As Hurricane Ian hurtled toward Florida, packing 155 mph winds, politicians and commentators were busy bloviating, blowing out their own hot air.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) went so far as to say electing Democrats in the November midterms will help stop hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Republicans take charge, a number of them have been talking about an abortion ban, you guys know that, you featured it on the show,\u201d Klobuchar <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/09\/27\/senator-amy-klobuchar-hurricane-ian-democrat-climate-change-vote-midterm-elections-senate-majority\/\">said<\/a> on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why we got to win this midterm. We just did something about climate change for the first time in decades, that\u2019s why we got to win this as that hurricane bears down on Florida. We got to win in the midterms,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Politico, a liberal website founded by two former Washington Post reporters, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/09\/27\/desantis-faces-the-true-test-of-any-florida-governor-00058925\">sought to hit<\/a> Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican \u2014 even before the hurricane hit.<\/p>\n<p>And it only took two paragraphs for the site to get a fact completely wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGov. Ron DeSantis spent his first term becoming one of the most influential Republicans in the country \u2014 a likely 2024 frontrunner who\u2019s already shaping his party\u2019s national agenda,\u201d reporter Matt Dixon wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut DeSantis still hasn\u2019t faced one of the toughest challenges a Florida leader can encounter: a major hurricane.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The site later added this at the bottom of the story (while weirdly leaving graf 2 intact): \u201cCLARIFICATION: This story has been updated to add that Hurricane Sally affected the western part of the Florida Panhandle in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Down in Florida, a reporter asked DeSantis about remarks made by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator Deanne Criswell on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFEMA Administrator Criswell said today she acknowledged concerns about Florida\u2019s \u2026 as it was said \u2026 lax response to the storm so far \u2014 \u201d the reporter started before DeSantis cut him off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, give me a break. That is nonsense. Stop politicizing, OK? Stop it. We declared a state of emergency when this thing wasn\u2019t even formed. We\u2019ve had people in here. We\u2019ve had counties that have done a lot of hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd honestly, you\u2019re trying to attack me, I get it, but you\u2019re attacking these other people who\u2019ve worked very hard. So that\u2019s just totally false,\u201d DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the question was wrong, anyway. What Criswell said during the White House press briefing was how the Gulf of Mexico region of Florida hadn\u2019t taken a direct hit in several years and had nothing to do with the state\u2019s preparation.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, President Joe Biden got in on the act when he said preparing for a hurricane was just one more reason to \u2026 get vaccinated?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me be clear: If you\u2019re in a state where hurricanes often strike like Florida or the Gulf Coast or Texas, a vital part of preparing for hurricane season is to get vaccinated,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoePCunningham\/status\/1574884405541216267\">said<\/a>. \u201cEverything is more complicated if you\u2019re not vaccinated and hurricane preventable disaster hits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Joe Concha, longtime political commentator from The Hill, knew this was all coming, that the media and politicians would make the hurricane partisan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a serious time for serious journalism. But you know that there are some folks in this industry that are licking their chops, just waiting to turn this particular hurricane into Ron DeSantis\u2019s Katrina, as if he could have done something to better prepare the state or done X-Y-Z, then he could have saved lives or saved businesses or saved homes,\u201d Concha said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/joe-concha-liberal-media-pundits-licking-chops-take-shots-ron-desantis-hurricane-ian\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re going to start blaming governors when hurricanes hit in these situations, when they appear to be doing everything they can to prepare their citizens, you know that it\u2019s a midterm year. And quite frankly, you know that 2024 is ahead. And as we\u2019ve seen time and again with Ron DeSantis, they see him as a true threat in terms of winning the presidency and will take any shot, even the cheap shots, even the shots that don\u2019t exist, like hurricanes that actually hit states when they say it didn\u2019t. And just to try to take him down,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Initial reports say Hurricane Ian will likely wreak havoc for several more days. Most people will send their thoughts and prayers \u2014 and money \u2014 to help the survivors, politicians and pundits will no doubt seek political gain from the misery.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Hurricane Ian hurtled toward Florida, packing 155 mph winds, politicians and commentators were busy bloviating, blowing out their own hot air. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) went so far as to say electing Democrats in the November midterms will help stop hurricanes. \u201cIf the Republicans take charge, a number of them have been talking about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1664681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1664681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}