WashPost Bashed Bush on Katrina, Dismisses ‘Outrage’ Over Above-It-All Obama
The Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza on Thursday offered up a defensive piece explaining “why President Obama isn’t stopping his vacation to visit the Louisiana flooding.” Obama has since reversed course and said he would visit, but Cillizza dismissed the attacks against the President, condescendingly explaining, “Cue outrage.” The Post, however, is the same paper that called George W. Bush’s Hurricane Katrina flyover to be the second “worst” moment of George W. Bush’s presidency.
When it comes to Obama, Cillizza first insisted that “there's really no such thing as a vacation for a president of the United States.” That's certainly not how the Post felt about Bush and Katrina. The President’s initial refusal to cut short his vacation “speaks to Obama's unique and long-lasting commitment to not playing by a core rule of modern politics: making at least some decisions based on ‘how it looks’ and/or ‘how it will play.’"
Read More At: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2016/08/21/washpost-bashed-bush-katrina-dismisses-outrage-over-above-it-all
Already discussed but another good article.
Also, I think it is Newsbusters but maybe someone here posted it, Rachel Maddow was saying blame Jindal not Obama.
