Staten Island

I have said several times for over a week that the media and GOP would like to make hurricane Sandy into “Obama’s Katrina.” They are now doing it. They’re doing it regardless of the fact that those in terrible shape in locations like Staten Island were specifically told in advance by the President of the United States, their Governor, and their Republican Mayor, to evacuate. The media is doing it regardless of the fact that President Obama put thousands of tons of rescue supplies in place in advance, and is now distributing them as rapidly as possible with model cooperation between FEMA and the state and local governments. The media is doing this despite the fact that President Romney and Vice President Ryan at this point would be openly scorning the victims and giving no aid at all, leaving it to the “private sector” to rake over these people and make profit from their suffering. Individual people can be easily found by news media crews who, after staying behind and being hit by the hurricane against orders by authorities, are now miserable and irritable due to lack of food, water, heat and/or shelter. These people are overwhelmingly white Northerners. There will be no discussion in the news media about how they “lack personal responsibility” as was claimed about Katrina victims in New Orleans.