{"id":2009036,"date":"2023-08-23T08:04:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-dont-care-about-maui-fires-or-bidens-heartless-katrina-moment\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T08:08:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T12:08:22","slug":"media-dont-care-about-maui-fires-or-bidens-heartless-katrina-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-dont-care-about-maui-fires-or-bidens-heartless-katrina-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Media ignores Maui fires and Biden&#8217;s heartless &#8216;Katrina moment&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fmedia-dont-care-about-maui-fires-or-bidens-heartless-katrina-moment%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=2009036&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--><div class=\"article-content\">\n<p><strong>Shameful Indifference: Biden&#8217;s Response to Maui Wildfires<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to imagine a \u200bmore shameful,\u2062 indifferent response to the tragic wildfires\u200c in\u2063 Maui than what we\u2019ve seen from President Joe Biden in \u2064recent\u200d weeks. Upon\u2062 first being\u200d asked about the deadly fires,\u200b which \u200chave \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staradvertiser.com\/2023\/08\/21\/breaking-news\/search-and-relief-efforts-continue-as-maui-prepares-for-biden-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">killed 115 people \u200cand counting<\/a>, Biden, who was on vacation at the time, simply said, \u201cNo \u2064comment.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When he finally got around to visiting Hawaii (after a second\u200d vacation) nearly two \u200dweeks after the fires had\u2064 devastated\u2063 swaths of Maui, with more than 1,000 people still missing and the death toll rising daily, Biden \u200bembarked on a series \u200dof\u200d almost unbelievably crass and heartless comments.<\/p>\n<h2>Biden&#8217;s \u200dInsensitive Remarks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>He joked about how \u2062hot\u2062 the ground was<\/li>\n<li>Mispronounced the names of every Hawaii elected official<\/li>\n<li>Told a complete lie about\u2063 how his house once almost\u2062 burned \u200cdown<\/li>\n<li>Joked about how he knows what they are feeling because \u200bhe almost lost his corvette<\/li>\n<li>Fell asleep while\u200c meeting with Maui residents<\/li>\n<li>Opened his remarks in\u200d Maui by invoking \u2064his \u2063late wife and daughter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hard to believe, but it\u2019s true. Here\u2019s Biden apparently falling asleep during a ceremony honoring Maui\u2019s dead.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"ngUAcG3zCOmKjbeLHb2xBykapRqKH7sNkfonxpjEZY84ufqa8z2RtmdvXWJ3Jir\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Biden appears\u200d to fall asleep\u200d during\u200c a ceremony in Hawaii honoring the hundreds of \u2064Americans killed by the fires <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/epLCJ01B0J\">pic.twitter.com\/epLCJ01B0J<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Hannity \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@seanhannity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seanhannity\/status\/1693954639631122675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Hours later,\u2063 he was back on\u200b a plane to Lake \u200bTahoe.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever one thinks of\u2063 Biden, his behavior in Maui was simply appalling. In a healthy society with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mounting-evidence-doesnt-matter-corporate-media-will-never-cover-the-biden-corruption-scandal\/\" title=\"Corporate media will always ignore mounting evidence of the Biden corruption scandal.\">functioning free press<\/a>, he would be \u200bjustly excoriated for\u2062 his performance. Yet \u2062the response of establishment media, not just to Biden\u2019s callousness\u200d but\u2062 to the whole story of the Maui fires, has been \u200da collective shrug.<\/p>\n<h2>Media Bias: Comparing Biden to \u200cBush<\/h2>\n<p>Contrast this to a previous\u200b tragedy: Hurricane Katrina in \u2062late summer 2005. Then-President George W. Bush was relentlessly attacked by the national press for months after Katrina hit New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,800 people. Arguably, Katrina was the end of Bush\u2019s presidency. He never recovered from it, mostly because the corporate press maintained the fiction, even years later, that \u2063the botched\u2064 response was \u200call \u2062his fault \u2014\u200c and worse, that his indifference was motivated by racism because most of the victims were black.<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane Katrina was indeed\u200c one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-residents-on-kentucky-tornado-damage-footage-ive-never-seen-destruction-like-this-in-my-life\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: Residents On Kentucky Tornado Damage Footage: \u2018I\u2019ve Never Seen Destruction Like This In My Life\u2019\">worst natural disasters<\/a> in American history, and the loss of life and destruction in New Orleans was absolutely \u2063jaw-dropping. But \u2062the chief villain wasn\u2019t Bush, it was state and local officials, \u2063whose corruption\u200d and incompetence\u200d made the situation far worse than it otherwise \u200cmight have been.<\/p>\n<p>Chief among these was New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who would later be convicted and sent \u2064to\u2062 federal prison on a raft of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-dont-care-about-maui-fires-or-bidens-heartless-katrina-moment\/\" title=\"Media ignores Maui fires and Biden's heartless 'Katrina moment'.\">criminal charges including wire fraud<\/a>, bribery, conspiracy, and money laundering \u2014 some\u200c of which occurred during the response to Katrina. It was Nagin and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, not Bush, who made \u200bthe \u200ddecision not to order a mandatory \u200cevacuation of New Orleans until just\u200b 20\u200c hours \u200bbefore\u200c the\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-times-joe-biden-ran-away-from-media-questions-on-afghanistan\/\" title=\"5 Times Joe Biden Ran Away From Media Questions On Afghanistan\">storm made landfall<\/a>, stranding tens of thousands of people across the city, many of \u2064them trapped on their rooftops surrounded by floodwaters.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2064 was likewise Nagin, not\u200c Bush, who directed people to take shelter in the Louisiana\u2062 Superdome, despite not having provisioned the massive structure with adequate food or water for the \u200c26,000 people who wound up there. \u200bAnd\u200b it was Blanco, not Bush, who delayed activating the Louisiana National Guard to maintain law and order\u200b on the streets, and who \u200bwaited a\u2062 full two \u2062days after \u200bKatrina hit the coast to request federal troops.<\/p>\n<p>But the media didn\u2019t focus\u2063 their fire on Nagin and Blanco. They blamed Bush. What did Bush do, exactly? Like Biden, he\u2019d been on \u2063vacation before disaster struck, on a ranch in Texas. This was somehow construed as uncaring. But unlike \u200bBiden, he cut his trip short and returned to\u200d Washington to direct the federal emergency response just 48\u200b hours after Katrina made landfall. On the way back, he flew over the affected areas, opting not to land for fear that his security detail would hamper \u200crelief efforts actively\u2063 underway.<\/p>\n<p>The media seized on the flyover as\u2062 an example of how aloof and indifferent\u200c Bush was to the suffering in\u2063 the city\u2062 below.\u2064 The sluggishness of the FEMA response \u2014 which was partly a consequence \u2063of \u200ddelayed requests from state and local officials and partly a perennial feature of federal bureaucracy \u2014 played into this narrative, which reporters and editors pushed hard.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, \u2064the media hated Bush for the Iraq War, which wasn\u2019t \u200cgoing well at\u200d the time, \u2062and Katrina was their chance to irreparably hurt his reputation and hobble his presidency. And\u2062 it worked.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes\u200c Biden\u2019s \u201cKatrina moment,\u201d but instead of incessant propaganda about \u2062how Biden doesn\u2019t care about native Hawaiians, or poor people, or the dead children buried under the charred\u2062 rubble\u200c of Lahaina, we get CNN\u2019s Bill Weir waxing poetic about how Biden \u201csaid the right things\u201d and\u200d served as \u200c\u201cempathizer-in-chief\u201d during his brief\u2063 visit to Maui:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"YHT7sMbhg4EPz5F6mGiZNq2xcyKRLd1XlJtwApOoefjaVSU\"><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillWeirCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BillWeirCNN<\/a> praises Biden\u2019s Hawaii visit: \u201cHe said \u200dthe right things \u2026 He serve[d] as empathizer-in-chief\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UOLoQAVBSO\">pic.twitter.com\/UOLoQAVBSO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1694098939912323371?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 22, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>All of this, by the\u2064 way, is not to bemoan the hypocrisy of the media\u2019s treatment of \u200dRepublicans versus Democrats. As we know, it\u2019s not hypocrisy but hierarchy at work here. Biden gets a pass from the media because they\u2019re on the same \u2064side, and \u200dtheirs is the side with all\u200d the power.<\/p>\n<p>But it is to \u200bsay that you should believe what your own eyes and ears tell you: Biden doesn\u2019t really\u200d care about the destruction in Hawaii, and\u200d neither does the corporate press. The last thing regime media outlets are going \u2064to do, even in \u2063the face of a\u2062 deadly natural disaster like this one, is criticize Democrats in power.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s true of \u2062Biden as much as it\u2019s true \u200bof local and state Democrats in Hawaii. \u200bThe media will not\u2062 decry the\u2062 absurdity of Hawaii Gov. Josh\u2063 Green\u2019s claim that climate change somehow \u201camplified\u201d the \u2063cost\u200b of human error. They\u200b will\u2064 not\u2063 dwell overmuch on M. Kaleo Manuel, the Hawaii water\u2064 official and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/barcodes-bookbags-microsoft-teams-up-with-schools-to-create-covid-daily-pass-for-kids\/\" title=\"Barcodes &#038; Bookbags: Microsoft Teams Up With Schools To Create Covid \u2018Daily Pass\u2019 For Kids\">left-wing climate activist<\/a> \u2063who\u200d refused to release \u200bwater to landowners to fight fires.\u200d They \u2062certainly\u200c won\u2019t bring up Manuel\u2019s pagan, woke worldview, that water is \u201cone of the earthly \u2062manifestations of \u200ba god,\u201d and that water shouldn\u2019t just be something we use but something we \u201crevere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They won\u2019t do any of that because all of\u2062 these people are Democrats, and Democrats\u2062 get \u2063protection from the media. Unlike Hurricane\u2062 Katrina, the corporate press has no convenient Republican culprit to blame for the Maui wildfires, \u200bno hapless President Bush to beat up and excoriate. And since any in-depth coverage of the disaster would hurt the Democrats in power, from Maui to Washington, the media will do the bare minimum of\u200d coverage and, as soon as they get the chance, happily move on.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>responded, Biden&#8217;s lack of empathy and disregard for the devastating wildfires in Maui was evident. With a shameful and indifferent attitude, he failed to acknowledge the 115 lives lost and merely replied, &#8220;No comment.&#8221; This callous response from the President is deeply disappointing and disheartening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":2009037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2009036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009036","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\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2009037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}