A REPUBLICAN talking point emerging

[nadinbrzezinski]

IT WAS ALL HYPE by the media and the GUVMINT...

First George Will
Then Howie Kurtz
Now Piers Morgan...

I know this will please a few, but let me clarify this... if this WAS the storm of the century and 10K people died... they'd still blame the media and the GUVMINT for a less than good response with insane comparisons to... Bush the Lesser.

When Howie Kurtz, and George Will and now Piers Morgan come with that idiocy I gotta wonder just how many blogs and sites they troll for ideas?

[DonCoquixote]

1. answer

as many as they need to stay in power, not one inch less.

[progressoid]

2. I saw that fuck-wit George Will for about 15 seconds this morning.

Then I remembered why I hate Sunday morning news shows. :puke:

[GoCubsGo]

3. They've been spewing that one for more than a day.

Saw it on HuffyPoo yesterday afternoon, before it hit NYC. The other troll talking point is that the over-hyping is because FEMA is incompetent. They base that on the Katrina response, as opposed to every disaster since then, including the Alabama and Missouri outbreaks, where FEMA got high marks for their response.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. We've seen it here

I dont have to go to Huff... it's been here a plenty.

[NCarolinawoman]

14. FEMA was great under Clinton/Gore and James Lee Witt.

Then Bush Jr. dismantled it, got rid of all the people who knew what they were doing and installed "Heck-of-job--Brownie" in there.

Poppy Bush was terrible as well. He appeared to be unaware of a category 4 Hurricane named Hugo, that devastated Charleston, S.C.

It's the REPUBLICAN administrations that were incompetent, but these commentators seem unable to tell the difference.

[maryellen99]

15. Bush 1 also botched the aftermath of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 as well

One of the big reasons why Bill Clinton won Florida in 92.

[kwolf68]

4. Did 10K really die?

I had no idea. Where were the majority of the deaths?

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Re-read the OP carefully

and notice two things.

1.- IT IS HYPE, aka it is not really a story and guv'ment over reacted is the current talking point (it might die overnight due to what is happening right now in Vermont)

2.- IF 10K died they would be critical of the response because well, it was Obama.

In other words, it does not matter how this goes there will be a negative talking poing.

Is this now clear or do you need a further translation

Suffice it to say Monpellier is in the middle of being evacuated, and they expect, quite possibly, the worst flooding since 1927... so the hype as emerging talking point will probably die over night.

[kwolf68]

7. No translation needed.

I got the point. Thanks

[FourScore]

8. Howie, George and Piers...lemme ask you somethin'

If the aftermath of the hurricane ended up looking like Katrina, would it have been Obama's fault?

You see, Obama was at FEMA the night the hurricane came ashore.

I think what really bothers you is that preparedness WORKED.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. And this particular talking point might die tonight

at Montpelier VT...

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. The problem with Republicans is that they don't know how to recognize success

[lynne]

10. Hype by the media for sure but the government was the ONLY place -

- I could find accurate info. www.noaa.gov consistently gave me a different report for my area than the media was spitting out. I knew on Friday that this would be a non-event in my particular area based on noaa.gov. Not so in other spots, of course, but definitely for my region.

Must keep the noaa.gov. Get rid of the media.

[Fumesucker]

12. Exactly, the government was giving out good solid information..

And the media was whipping it into a frothy substance reminiscent of Santorum.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Tell that to Montpelier right now

[jimlup]

11. Actually the event isn't over yet

The flooding appears to be more significant than some expected. Heavy rains not the winds are doing the damage. I wonder if people like Will are even worth responding too. These people are such idiots and the freeper types are going to believe whatever they say anyway - it doesn't matter what we say in response so why stoop to their stupid level?

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. Exactly, this insulting Talking Point

might die over night. Wilmington Vt. Montpellier... CNN has been on SOME of this.

[beac]

13. Hey Piers, did you hack someone's phone to get that talking point??? n/t