Fox guest Jonah Goldberg dismissed comparisons of the border crisis to Hurricane Katrina yesterday. Not because Katrina was so much more devastating to so many more people. No, because Goldberg wanted to argue that the immigration matter is “worse than Katrina.”
Goldberg was up first on Special Report’s “All-Star” panel discussion of the subject yesterday. He said:
I do not like this Katrina analogy myself. Except for a few tinfoil-headed crazies, no one thought that George W Bush’s policies led to Hurricane Katrina. It was a hurricane.
The crisis on the border is a direct result of President Obama’s policies and decisions, and so in some ways, this is worse than Katrina as a policy matter because this is something that they created.
Host Bret Baier chimed in . He said, “The Katrina reference, obviously the fallout and the response and rightly or wrongly, based on how you looked at local officials and state officials - how they handled it - the image of President Bush flying over and the fallout from ‘Brownie, you’re doing a great job,’ all of that stuff. That’s where I guess they’re getting the linkage.”
Comparing a border crisis to a major hurricane? Goldberg should travel to Louisiana and say that to the people victimized by Katrina and see what happens.
Watch the discussion below via Media Matters.