Fox News and Fox Nation are maintaining their saturation coverage of the Boston bombing (to be fair, so is everyone else) - and also their relative silence on the fertilizer plant explosion that killed at least 14 people, damaged almost 100 homes and devastated a small Texas town.
For example, a search of Fox Nation, which has a whole page of Boston threads, turned up only five posts on the explosion, mainly about two days old. There’s also a story on foxnews.com , dated today, which discusses the efforts of first responders (which in some cases cost those responders their lives), the grief of a town where everyone knows one another, and statements by the President, governor and plant owner – and briefly mentions a citation the plant received in 2006 for failing to obtain a permit.
So far Fox has not explored the irony of its good friend Governor Rick Perry, generally a harsh critic of the President and of government handouts, telling the press, “We greatly appreciate [Obama’s] call, and his gracious offer of support, and the quick turnaround of the emergency declaration that will be forthcoming, and his offer of prayers.” More seriously, other media are starting to report suspicious things about the plant – for example, that it was storing huge amounts of explosive ammonium nitrate that it failed to report to the Department of Homeland Security.
Fox has given air time to Texas officials touting their state's small government and lax regulations. Think it’ll give equal time to exploring how small government and minimal regulatory oversight might have contributed to the tragedy? Somehow, gentle reader, I think not.
I may owe Carrie Hart an apology because I assumed that she was yet another manifestation of our stalker troll. I totally misconstrued her question and treated her rudely.
I’m sorry if that’s the case, Carrie.
By the way, the link I gave was accurate, however.
But any effort to tarnish the “liberal” media for its failings (even though FoxNoise shares the same failings) is grade-A prime for FoxNoise.
A lot of the far right is running with the meme, but Fox News and the outlets that ally themselves with it know exactly where he got some of those ideas. So they’re sticking with “He’s nuts, he thinks he blew open some huge conspiracy, this is for attention…”
You will never see his politics mentioned. Though I’m sure someone will try showing that stupid stolen sign video that don’t prove shit.
The guys with the funny names, though? I’m sure we’ll hear that their dog mixed the explosives any day now.
And that treatment will REMAIN superficial, both 1) until a way can be found to blame President Obama personally for the explosion, and 2) as long as the “Boston jihad” story can be kept alive.
@truman & david pavlak: Helmethair wasn’t the only Texan who talked secession, then changed his mind . . .
After Calling Sandy Aid Wasteful, Ted Cruz Asks For All Available Resources for Texas
http://www.politicususa.com/flashback-ted-cruz-lecture-sandy-victims-texas-begs-handouts-feds.html
That’s right — the man who “claimed he couldn’t support aid for Sandy victims because of the ‘pork’ and ‘wasteful spending’ in the Disaster Relief Act of 2013”, now wants “all available resources.”
Cruz and Perry have quite a set on them . . . President Obama has pledged federal assistance for TX; he’s a better man than I am, because if it were me, I’d remind them the explosion wasn’t a natural disaster, but the result of lowered safety standards — and tell them to go jerk themselves. But that’s just me.
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In any case, I’m not sure that our federal tax dollars should be used to repair damages incurred by any state because of sloppy (at best!) state management. This was not the result of a natural disaster….unless you can call political ignorance a natural disaster. Where’s Ron Paul extolling the virtues of Libertarianism now?
In any case, I’m not sure that our federal tax dollars should be used to repair damages incurred by any state because of sloppy (at best!) state management. This was not the result of a natural disaster….unless you can call political ignorance a natural disaster. Where’s Ron Paul extolling the virtues of Libertarianism now?
I seem to recall Governor Rick Perry wanting to secede from the Union sometime back……
