Interior Secretary Fiddles, Gulf Burns, News at…meh, Whatev’.
Well, at least he wasn’t out shopping for shoes.
Thanks to Jake Tapper, we learn Tom Strickland, Chief of Staff to the Secretary of the Interior*, was on a whitewater river rafting trip through the Grand Canyon with his family.
Now, I’m not going to jump on the bandwagon of harping on just how poorly the Obama Administration has responded and continues to blow it. Frankly, it’s a disaster, and it’s not going to work out perfectly anyway. Time will have to tell and it’d be more proper to judge in hindsight.
And even more frankly, I’m much more concerned about how it seems BP, who were huge contributors to Teh One seem to have also been given kid-glove treatment when it comes to environmental rules. (Oh, and there’s more!)
But instead, I’ll simply take this opportunity to once again beat the drum of indignation that there is NO WAY Bush, in a similar situation with a big contributor, a terrible disaster, and laxed oversight would have been given the pass Obama has. Yes, it’s being reported (if you cobble together enough sources). But can you imagine what this story would have looked like two years ago?
Does the old-school media really have no shame whatsoever? Are they really that devoid of honor and integrity?
-Nick (ColoradoPatriot, from HQ)
*I’d originally mis-typed and left out Strickland’s status as Chief of Staff to Ken Salazar, a point that, apparently one of our commentors (who admits he didn’t even bother to educate himself about the story) finds more important than the fact that Obama’s Administration is being given a pass here. As an homage to his insistance, and in the spirit of keeping up with the real scandal here, I have corrected myself. Here’s hoping now that this is remedied, he’ll actually have something to say in defense and on topic. What do you think?
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And then the young man pointed and said… “He’s not wearing any clothes!”
Comment by Delusional Bill — May 5, 2010 @ 8:20 pm - May 5, 2010
Um… yes.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — May 5, 2010 @ 9:02 pm - May 5, 2010
[...] Interior Secretary Fiddles, Gulf Burns, News at…meh, Whatev’. [...]
Pingback by GayPatriot » Media STILL Doesn’t See The Story — May 5, 2010 @ 9:05 pm - May 5, 2010
Yes and yes.
Comment by American Elephant — May 5, 2010 @ 9:15 pm - May 5, 2010
Don’t miss the fact that the DSCC is USING the oil rig disaster as a FUNDRAISING talking point! Shameless.
POLITICO: DSCC capitalizes on oil spill – Ben Smith
Comment by GayPatriot — May 5, 2010 @ 9:39 pm - May 5, 2010
CP: hmmm…well, i didn’t click on the link by jake tapper, but i know that the actual secretary of state is ken salazar. ken salazar is the former us senator from…which state again? oh that’s right–your home state of colorado.
how embarrassing for you. are you that eager to find fault with the obama administration?
Comment by Chad — May 5, 2010 @ 10:02 pm - May 5, 2010
CP: hmmm…well, i didn’t click on the link by jake tapper, but i know that the actual secretary of state is ken salazar. ken salazar is the former us senator from…which state again? oh that’s right–your home state of colorado.
how embarrassing for you. and how embarrassing that this egregious error happens to come in the middle of one of your unhinged attacks against the media.
Comment by Chad — May 5, 2010 @ 10:06 pm - May 5, 2010
Who said anything about DOS, Chad?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — May 6, 2010 @ 12:22 am - May 6, 2010
my bad…i meant dept of interior, not dept of state
Comment by Chad — May 6, 2010 @ 3:12 am - May 6, 2010
Chad: “hmmm…well, i didn’t click on the link by jake tapper”
Naturally, you didn’t. Had you done so, you’d have picked up my typing omission about Strickland being Salazar’s Chief of Staff. A slip on my part, for sure, and a definite demonstration of how those who carry the water for Teh One (admittedly even!) prefer to personally criticize their opponents rather than bother to educate themselves on the facts of the story.
I’d say we all learned a little something here, no?
Comment by ColoradoPatriot — May 6, 2010 @ 10:31 am - May 6, 2010
#6: chad, “how embarrassing for you. and how embarrassing that this egregious error happens to come in the middle of one of your unhinged attacks.”
Comment by Sean A — May 6, 2010 @ 6:00 pm - May 6, 2010
CP, boy you’re not short of irony in this post. why haven’t you bothered to update the post in light of your error? are you just hoping that the rest of the gaypatriot readers will overlook your mistakes? or do you want to preserve this post as a monument to failure?
Comment by Chad — May 6, 2010 @ 9:56 pm - May 6, 2010
Chad:
Thanks for your tenacity. With my other life commitments, I am only now able to follow up and address the REAL scandal (that being my error). I’m hoping you can forgive me this mistake, which seem, from your anger to be on a par with the oil spill itself.
Luckly, now, though, it’s been rectified. It’s your turn now to offer an actually pertinent point on the issue. Feel free.
Comment by ColoradoPatriot — May 7, 2010 @ 12:57 am - May 7, 2010
let me get this gay, CP…you accuse me of not “educat[ing] [my]self” on your factually erroneous misrepresentation of this story? ha, that’s funny. even with my inferior education, i knew right away that you misidentified the secretary of the interior–and unlike you, ken salazar wasn’t my US senator up until 18 months ago. frankly, i don’t believe your error was due to a typo.
setting that issue aside, the entire “substance”–and i use that term loosely–of your (corrected) post consists of the fact that a subordinate at the dept of the interior wasn’t at the gulf to assist, even though salazar and other cabinet members were there. geez, the janitor from the dept of interior wasn’t there; are you upset about that? how about the guy from payroll at the dept of interior; are you upset that he wasn’t there?
this isn’t a scandal. it’s a desperate attempt to find fault with the obama administration’s response to the oil spill (and redeem bush’s mismanagement of the katrina disaster). i’m sure there are legitimate criticisms of their response, but this isn’t one of them. the old school media, your punching bag, at least seems to understand that. they also know how to fact check.
Comment by Chad — May 7, 2010 @ 10:14 am - May 7, 2010
also, you should probably update the headline to this post to reflect your error.
Comment by Chad — May 7, 2010 @ 10:18 am - May 7, 2010