
Another massive flood in Louisiana and a missing President. The difference this time? This time the BBC isn’t indulging in a huge moral grandstanding exercise as it did when it launched relentless attacks on Bush for not visiting the disaster areas.
At present Obama is too busy to visit Louisiana…busy on vacation playing golf.
The BBC’s Gavin Hewitt trembled with rage as he ranted about Bush. Not a peep from the BBC as their hero goes awol and leaves Louisiana to its own devices…to sink or swim….despite reporting that this is…
One of the worst US disasters in recent years
The BBC knows there is criticism of Obama…this is the single comment that they limit themselves to on this…
A local Baton Rouge paper has criticised President Obama for not visiting the affected area.
The BBC could have enlarged upon what that paper said….
We’ve seen this story before in Louisiana, and we don’t deserve a sequel. In 2005, a fly-over by a vacationing President George W. Bush became a symbol of official neglect for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The current president was among those making political hay out of Bush’s aloofness.
But it didn’t.
I guess there just aren’t enough black people suffering to make it worth while for Obama to visit and for the BBC to get indignant about……because of course the real reason Hewitt and Co raged on so much was because it was apparently Blacks who suffered the most in Katrina….the BBC tried to say Bush was racist and didn’t care about Black people. The BBC naturally refused to point the finger of blame at the black mayor of New Orleans for the failure to organise evacuation and an effective response to the hurricane that he knew was on its way.

Carl Miller
