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Blog for Arizona's AZ Blue Meanie dissects the right wing spin of this catastrophe:

"Spill Baby Spill"

The right-wing media only cares about political narrative. Death, destruction, natural and environmental disasters are not reported from a humanitarian point of view but rather from "how can we spin this story to our political advantage?" by making as many outrageous claims as possibe in this Post-Truth Politics era.

Shortly after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, with more than 200,000 dead, the response of the right-wing media was not "what can we do to help?" but rather was the narrative "this could be President Obama's Katrina." Remember that?

Given the scope of the catastrophe, the massive devastation of a poor country without any resources and the overwhelming number of deaths, the response of the U.S. and the World in coming to Haiti's aid has been quite remarkable and a success by any reasonable measure of relief efforts. The shrill criticism of the relief effort was a direct criticism of the U.S. Armed Forces who were the first responders. Hence, the right-wing media quietly abanondoned its "Katrina" meme.

But wait! The right-wing media which daily sings the praises of a "free market economy," deregulation of business, and "drill, baby, drill" is back. The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, directly attributable to the deregulation of the oil industry by Texas oil men George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and the "drill, baby, drill" mentality, is somehow now President Obama's fault.

The response of the right wing-media to this looming environmental disaster is not to ask "how can we help?" but rather is to blame the federal government, curiously not BP oil, and to assert the narrative once again that "this could be President Obama's Katrina." The right-wing media is desperate to get the Katrina monkey off the back of George W. Bush to rehabilitate his legacy by creating false equivalencies to President Obama. They are shameless in this "post-truth politics" era.

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