Never-Ending Katrina Bias

Four years have elapsed since one of the most amazing cases of Republican-bashing media bias in the television era began. The media elites laugh when preachers say immorality causes God to send hurricanes, but they suggested with straight faces that Hurricane Katrina was a death sentence President Bush and his cronies brought to the less fortunate.

In the early spin, race-baiting rapper Kanye West and “objective” anchors like Brian Williams were in rhetorical sync: George Bush didn’t care about black people. On “The Daily Show,” Williams said “everyone” knew Bush would have done better if white people were endangered: “Everyone watching the coverage all week, that kind of reached its peak last weekend, kept saying the same refrain: ‘How is this happening in the United States?’ And the other refrain was, ‘Had this been Nantucket, had this been Boston, Cleveland, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, how many choppers would have –’”

Williams couldn’t finish. The liberal audience drowned him in applause.

A year later, Williams was pressing Bush about being a bigot, harboring a “social or race or class aspect” in the federal response, then inviting in radical professor Michael Eric Dyson to denounce the Bush family as “clueless patricians.”

Read More: by Brent Bozell, Townhall