Newsday's Pinkerton: Katrina victims "whining all the time on TV to get more federal money"
On the September 17 edition of Fox News Watch, Fox News political analyst and Newsday columnist Jim Pinkerton accused the victims of Hurricane Katrina of "whining all the time on TV to get more federal money." Pinkerton also accused the media of directing too much blame for the botched response to Hurricane Katrina at the federal government while "absolv[ing] ... the local populace."
From a panel discussion that also included Fox News contributors Cal Thomas, a syndicated columnist, and Neal Gabler, a media writer, on the September 17 edition of Fox News' Fox News Watch:
THOMAS : I don't think there's a problem with the criticism at all. I think that the administration on this issue had a tin ear. He -- politically, they made some very bad decisions. But there's also, as Neal is fond of saying -- and I think he's absolutely right on this -- there is a template in this coverage. And one of the templates -- and there are many on this particular issue -- is that only big government is good. And so if big government has failed, as it clearly did at some level in this, then the media jump right on -- what we really need is more money, and more big government. I find that to be inconsistent.
PINKERTON: Right. The further paradox is it's -- the big government is good, but of course the federal government under Bush is terrible. So we have to -- we have to replace the current proprietor of the federal government, Bush, with somebody better. That's what they're really trying to get at.
And absolved in that are state and local governments to a substantial measure. And, of course, the local populace, which continues to get it -- to find itself whining all the time on TV to get more federal money.
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You know, you could take this to say Pinkerton's accusing the media of being too sentimental. Where does that leave us?
Not forgetting of course that you could throw down something as simple as "what if that we're you?" and hopefully Pinkerton would have the nerve to rethink his talking points.
At least he didn't pull out a "liberal media" splurge. That would've been just funny.
Can we just wrap this turd in a burlap bag and throw him into the gulf with the rest of the sewage.
I think Pinkerton is the whiner here. Look at his crooked smile also.
How long do you think ol' Pinkerton would've lasted at the Convention Center?
off topic here ...
remember the sep 12 topic about bush's approval ratings ? when susanne malveaux said "we have seen poll numbers improve, we have seen morale improve, that overall they think that the effort that the administration is doing has improved tremendously over the last 10 or so days that, when that transition was made, so he certainly is one of those candidates."
latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll shows bush's approval rating is only 40% now, down from the (incorrect) 46% that wolf blitzer reported as being "up -- up!", and the lowest it's ever been for that poll. the disapproval rating is now 58%, a new all-time high.
Pinkerton wants people to not know that we had an incompetant leader running FEMA.
He's probably whining to get more money for his propaganda.
Wonder how much the moron, pinkerton, gave to help the hurricane victims?? About as much as fattity, O'lielly and the other rich and selfish repugs. Not a dime because he hates the poor too!!