The BBC’s still at it, attacking Trump for his ‘failure’ to help Puerto Rico. No doubt the BBC sending a Muslim reporter there adds to the mix…Aleem Maqbool.
Not a single word in praise of the effort to help Puerto Rico from the BBC on FOOC…the entire piece was one long negative protrayal of events….apparently Trump has forgotten Puerto Rico, well not quite… only enough to treat them as second class citizens. You’d have no idea that 10,000 personnel were sent from the mainland and that enormous amounts of aid have come in as well as a huge effort to get the infrastructure back on track…no idea that it was difficult to get aid in initially as the island was completely destroyed with no roads, bridges, airports or power…kind of makes it difficult to move around the island and to fly in immediate aid if there were no landing strips.
Maqbool told us that there was no planning for the hurricane by Trump and Co….er….the reality is a completely different picture….
Rossello and other officials praised the federal government for planning its response before the storm hit, a contrast with what Puerto Rico has long seen as the neglect of 3.4 million Americans in a territory without a vote in Congress or the electoral college.
Large amounts of federal aid began moving into Puerto Rico on Saturday, as the island tried to recover from a battering by hurricane Maria. Local officials praised the Trump administration’s response.
The aid effort quickened with the opening of the island’s main port in the capital, San Juan, allowing 11 ships to bring in 1.6 million gallons of water, 23,000 cots, dozens of generators and food. Dozens more shipments are expected in upcoming days.
The federal aid effort is racing to stem a growing crisis in towns left without water, fuel, electricity or phone service. Officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) said they would take satellite phones to all of Puerto Rico’s towns and cities, more than half of which were cut off.
The island’s infrastructure was in sorry shape long before Maria struck.
And here is the official FEMA explanation of its preparations….
Overview of Federal Efforts to Prepare for and Respond to Hurricane Maria
President Donald J. Trump issues federal emergency declarations for the Territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in advance of Hurricane Maria’s landfall.
Maqbool does what all of Trump’s devoted enemies do and twists his words as he attacked him for saying Katrina was a ‘real’ catastrophe….they then go on to claim he meant hurricane Maria was nothing to worry about. But that’s a complete lie and misrepresentation of what he said and meant. The word ‘real’ was not meant to mean genuine or authentically substantial, he used the word as any normal person would to emphasise how bad Katrina was…’real bad’, its colloquial, he did not mean to diminish the severity of Puerto Rico’s disaster and indeed went on in the next sentence to make that clear. He then went on to further explain by praising Puerto Rico for saving lives….Katrina had killed hundreds if not thousands whilst only 16 [not exactly the genocide that the hard-left mayor of San Juan dramatically claimed Trump was inflicting upon Puerto Rico] or so at the time were killed in Puerto Rico…Trump put that down to good reactions by Puerto Rico. Not that he got any praise in return from the likes of the BBC. Here’s his words….
“Every death is a horror, but if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous — hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here, with really a storm that was just totally overpowering, nobody’s ever seen anything like this. What is your death count as of this moment? 17? 16 people certified, 16 people versus in the thousands. You can be very proud of all of your people and all of our people working together. Sixteen versus literally thousands of people. You can be very proud. Everybody around this table and everybody watching can really be very proud of what’s taken place in Puerto Rico.”
Why send a prejudiced reporter all the way around the world to bring us a report that he could have cut and pasted [maybe he did] from CNN or one of those other fake news outlets.
The BBC’s News Quiz joined in of course…they never let the facts get in the way of a good bit of bigotry. Apparently Trump didn’t help because he is a ‘slow-witted racist’.
The News Quiz…lol…what a joke…a bunch of leftwing racist half-wits who just regurgitate their bar room student witticisms about May needing a p45. V.funny.
Jeremy Hardy told us that Boris’ reference to the ‘roaring British lion’ was all nonsense….. isn’t it the ‘Right’ that has taken up using the image he tells us [he wraps up the whole spectrum in that…Right, Far Right, Nazis…of course if you’re to the right of Jeremy you’re probably still a Stalinist]. So that’ll be the Engand rugby team, the football team, the cricket team…
and oh yes the passport….along with the unicorn.
Of course Jeremy may not believe in the British Lion but he probably believes in the unicorn, a mystical beast of fantasy….just as he believes in Jeremy Corbyn. Dickhead.s
The funniest thing is that the BBC and the likes of Hardy sneer at Britishness and tell us there is no such thing, that we are a nation of immigrants with no national identity or loyalty…and yet they quickly tell us Muslims are definitely ‘British’, in fact Muslims are more proud of being British than the British…which kind of makes you ask does the BBC not then think of these proud Muslim ‘Brits’ as British?
Who knew Lefty Frank Skinner and the Jewish David Baddiel were in fact raging Nazis…..
Interesting how the bBC kinds of left the above out.
Which makes clear that the problem lies on the people running PR from within and not the US government.
Not to mention, the Clintons, Schumer, and in fact most high-ranking Democrats stated publicly for many years that border control was imperative and illegal immigrants were exactly that – illegal. It’s only when the Republicans are at the helm that it’s considered racist to protect your people and culture. Not to mention practically every one of these establishment virtue signallers crying about freedom of movement and gun control live in fenced estates with armed security. It’s hard to take their positions seriously when they themselves have no intention of paying any of the costs.
It still amazes me that the ‘impartial’ BBC can’t stomach giving Trump any credit for anything, though. Or even inviting any guests who support him, even just to gang up on them. They really seem to think that the entire world hates Trump, even though over 60m voted for him and his approval ratings remain steady. Even the worst, most insidious liberal media outlets in the US – at least the televised ones – have had segments acknowledging his success with the economy and otherwise critical commentators praising individual policies or speeches. Even Van Jones on CNN, who claimed Trump was elected due to white racism and currently makes a living from pushing the tired, post-truth Russia conspiracy theory (which he admitted in a secret video was a crock of shit) said that the tax return ‘scandal’ actually painted Trump in a positive light and was an own goal for MSNBC. The BBC is the only left-wing news broadcaster that has been this one-sided about Trump’s presidency, which is surprising given we know their aim is to be balanced. -_-
Has TellttotheMarines yet checked whether the BBC has a properly ‘representative’ level of Muslim reporters on the roster?
Given the % currently, it seems the BBC is getting ahead of demand in anticipating projected levels, which can only be a good thing? (BBC question mark).
Unless it transpires that this new breed of reporter is less concerned with facts and more pushing a narrative beyond the one the BBC already pursues.
I think Jeremy Hardy must be getting Alzheimer’s or some other degenerate disease . The bloke’s getting more deluded and less funny ( from a very low base) every broadcast .
Why don’t we all chip in a little something to get him a Dignitas voucher for Christmas .
Nibor,
He makes a living out of being anti conservative . I looked him up via his agent. He offers himself for lucrative after dinner speech circuit for 5k to 10k a gig. He’s a hypocrite which is why he fits into al beeb so well. I haven’t heard to news quiz for donkeys . There’s a clue – the chairs name is ‘miles’ private education then network for an al beeb job sneering at people for a living
Fed, I think you’ve spotted something here…
If a room of businessmen, who want to trade with the world, have a dinner invite out to some customers/clients, and Hardy is going to be the speaker, then – as in my day – I’d probably politely say I wouldn’t go.
Just takes a few of these for the Hardy/Hamiltons of this world eventually to realise their Ratner moments…
The far-left bbc was probably programmed to report that President Trump failed to react swiftly to help Puerto Rico. I’ve read reports and seen reports on YouTube that suggest the governor ( I think he’s called) of Puerto Rico is a Democrat and he refused to deploy the quite substantial manpower and other resources at his disposal to help his fellow Puerto Ricans. It was President Trump who bypassed this individual to get the recovery process started.
Therefore it’s possible that this man had decided or been told to let the situation deteriorate to make President Trump look bad and had therefore issued that as the story to the likes of the far-left bbc, not expecting the relief efforts to work around him and his collectivist mates. But the far-left bbc decided to stay with the original story rather than report the facts.
There is a lot of corruption in Puerto Rico.They are practically bankrupt and looking to have their debt wiped. Its all political and allows the BBC more Trump bashing .
Apparently Islam forms at least 5% of the British population yet here they seem to form 50% of the BBC correspondents reporting from abroad. Furthermore 50% seem to be of a Pakistani Islam heritage. This is not diversity – this is a take-over.
Puerto Rica – Aleem Maqbool
France – Stephen Sackur
Mesquite – John Sweeney
Somalia – Yasmin Ahmed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096gk2h
What did I say last week? $21 billion per year in aid from the US etc…..