EDITORIAL: Have they no sense of decency?
It's infinitely more predictable than the weather: If there's a Republican president, pin it on him.
Somehow. Some way.
In the days before Hurricane Harvey, the media were nearly more atwitter about how it might affect the Trump presidency than what it might do to
He didn't. The federal response to
So the media had to find another narrative -- another way to claim stumbles by the administration.
They even attacked First Lady
"Who Wears Stilettos to a Hurricane?" wailed a shrill Vanity Fair headline.
"Why, oh why, can't this administration get anything, even a pair of shoes, right?" whined
Are the media as dishonest as Trump likes to say? These folks know darn good and well that the first lady merely wore the high heels on the way to the ride out of
If she were a Democrat, there'd be cries of sexism for the media attacks on her.
Oh, wait. There wouldn't be any attacks on her.
"I don't know why anyone should care what anyone wears when they're on their way to help people,"
But that's nothing.
Despite the fact that
Badgered by the denizens of CBS This Morning to say Trump's
Oh, no. Not when there's political advantage to be had over a Republican president.
A CNN reporter took it upon himself to judge that Trump's supposedly premature visit to
Where's the evidence that the president was cold? Doesn't matter. They've got to get him or his wife for something!
It gets even better: As the rain still fell and the flood waters still rose -- and in the midst of an inarguably smooth relief effort -- a
Really? People are dying off and drying off and The
And what in the administration's response to
Well, perhaps it is -- at least according to one former professor at the
Talk about instant karma: Storey was summarily and rightfully fired for the absolute outrage -- moral, certainly, but perhaps on a sociological level as well: hard-hit
That's how deranged the president's opponents have become.
This newspaper, though it endorsed
To paraphrase a legendary lament in American history, have they no sense of decency?
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