Yesterday, Politico ran a grotesque story headlined, “
Helene hit Trump strongholds in Georgia and North Carolina. It could swing the election.” The story breathlessly described how hurricane-fueled voting problems will hurt President Trump’s election chances. But Politico never once mentioned the political implications of the slow, defective federal response to the storm, or impeached Democrat Mayorkas, who heads FEMA.
There is a nightmarish parasitic fungus called
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, or ‘cordyceps’ for short. It invades the brains and central nervous systems of small insects, usually ants. Once installed, the fungus takes complete control of the victims’ actions, forcing them to act in ways that help spread the fungus. The victims’ bodies waste away as the fungus continues badly animating them in disturbing, herky-jerky movements. As the infected near death, the fungus forces them to climb as high as possible before exploding in a cloud of spores that rain down on other uninfected insects.
That’s the
sanitized version of how
cordyceps operates.
It’s debatable which cruel parasite, exactly, was responsible for destroying our once-free media. Maybe a corporate takeover by a handful of companies, all sharing the same globalist agenda? Occupation by deep-state psy-operators for
national security? Chinese marxists? Or, instead of a complicated conspiracy theory like those, maybe the editors’ and reporters’ brains are growing
cordyceps fungus. If you see them start climbing,
run.
Regardless, we have a new hero to thank today for doing the media’s job and shaming the federal government into begrudging action. Yesterday, Elon Musk tweeted an update from one of his engineers deployed to the North Carolina disaster zone. The engineer, part of a team using private helicopters to deliver free satellite communications gear to stranded citizens, complained how FEMA and the FAA were shutting them down, part of “regulating the airspace.”
After Elon tweeted out the report from his own engineer,
a known first-hand source, media accused the space billionaire of
spreading misinformation and denied the feds were hampering aid delivery in any way. Then, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg chimed in:
Elon, an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur, is experienced in solving this kind of bureaucratic whackamole. He called Mayor Pete. About five hours later, Elon posted a thank-you:
This happened because Elon has a giant public megaphone. Do you know who else has a giant public megaphone?
The media. Except, for political reasons, since we are a month out of the election, the media has buried its megaphone under a toxic solar-panel graveyard. And people are literally dying because the media refuses to report anything that might embarrass the Biden Administration.
You can
sort of understand how the far-left corporate media refuses to cover certain important stories due to politics, like the Hunter Biden laptop. It isn’t healthy. It erodes our democratic republic. But at least that kind of media malfeasance isn’t a direct threat to anyone’s well-being. But the hurricane coverage is completely different. In this case, the media’s malfeasance means many Americans
in this country who might have been rescued will die instead.
Compare the media’s hyper-critical 2005 Hurricane Katrina coverage to its endless praise and knee-jerk defense of government during
this hurricane. Media was
all over the government’s response to the 2005 disaster. Local interviews with countless abandoned citizens pilloried slow-motion aid efforts, to the point President Bush was forced to deliver daily press briefings.
But yesterday, in an insectile frenzy, the media frantically fact-checked President Trump, accusing him of lying when he claimed FEMA gave nearly a billion dollars of disaster money to illegal immigrants — because that was
a totally different Federal Emergency Management Agency budget category.
What FEMA could possibly have to do with relocating illegal aliens remains anybody’s guess.
Here’s a link to the program on FEMA’s website. But yesterday, the media painted the
emergency disaster agency’s money funnel to illegals as natural a phenomenon as breathing political air.
Meanwhile, reports from citizens in the disaster zone of widespread federal incompetence continued piling up yesterday. They are unverified, obviously, since the media refuses to look or listen. One compelling example was a report from the founder of
Save Our Allies, formed initially to help rescue Americans and allies stranded in Afghanistan after Biden’s calamitous surrender. Now Save our Allies is working in North Carolina. Its founder complained that local hotels had been reserved for FEMA employees,
who aren’t even there yet, and now there is nowhere left to house rescued civilians. FEMA people should be sleeping in a bus or a tent, not hotels.
Media’s take was largely complaints that angry, newly homeless Americans dared to accuse FEMA of politically slow-walking the disaster response.
Misinformation! And then media ran triumphalist stories like Politico’s, crowing about how the hurricane helps Democrats.
You can donate to Save Our Allies
at this link.
Meanwhile, ignoring the human tragedy along with the most important part of the political calculus, Politico cluelessly reported that Hurricane Helene ravaged “conservative strongholds” in Georgia and North Carolina, but Democrat areas are doing well:
Helene political fallout; Elon shames FAA out of the way; rapid-approved aid package rankles; two-ABCs-in-one; NIH fixer pleads the Fifth; mpox news; Trump price cap plan; Kamala foul-up; more.
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