Hurricane Sandy drowns coverage of White House scandals

[Wehrwolfen]

Hurricane Sandy drowns coverage of White House scandals​

10/30/2012
By: Neil Munro


Hurricane Sandy is helping drown media coverage of several White House scandals in the crucial run-up to Election Day.

The storm has also dampened coverage of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s progress in critical Midwest swing states.

On Monday, the networks’ cameras were pointed at Obama as he stood at a White House podium to sketch out his administration’s response to the oncoming hurricane.

“I’m extraordinarily grateful for the cooperation of our state and local officials. … At this point, there are no unmet needs,” he said, speaking as the president, instead of a candidate.

The cameras weren’t pointed, however, at the Obama administration’s proliferating scandals, including the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” gun-smuggling project, the Treasury Department’s decision to strip Delphi Automotive workers of their pensions and the administration’s intelligence leaks.

The cameras also weren’t pointed at the top GOP officials who recently began demanding the White House provide support for Obama’s claims that he directed his deputies to immediately secure U.S. diplomatic sites after jihadis assaulted the Benghazi consulate on Sept. 11.

Read more:
Hurricane Sandy drowns coverage of White House scandals | The Daily Caller

 

[WillowTree]

No, not really. Fox is still covering the scandals. The other networks never did.

 

[bodecea]

Hurricane Sandy drowns coverage of White House scandals​

10/30/2012
By: Neil Munro


Hurricane Sandy is helping drown media coverage of several White House scandals in the crucial run-up to Election Day.

The storm has also dampened coverage of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s progress in critical Midwest swing states.

On Monday, the networks’ cameras were pointed at Obama as he stood at a White House podium to sketch out his administration’s response to the oncoming hurricane.

“I’m extraordinarily grateful for the cooperation of our state and local officials. … At this point, there are no unmet needs,” he said, speaking as the president, instead of a candidate.

The cameras weren’t pointed, however, at the Obama administration’s proliferating scandals, including the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” gun-smuggling project, the Treasury Department’s decision to strip Delphi Automotive workers of their pensions and the administration’s intelligence leaks.

The cameras also weren’t pointed at the top GOP officials who recently began demanding the White House provide support for Obama’s claims that he directed his deputies to immediately secure U.S. diplomatic sites after jihadis assaulted the Benghazi consulate on Sept. 11.

Read more:
Hurricane Sandy drowns coverage of White House scandals | The Daily Caller

Hurricane Sandy is a Democrat Plot.

 

[waltky]

Now dey dealing with the aftermath...

Sandy's death toll climbs; millions without power
30 Oct.`12 — Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas waited wearily for the power to come back on Tuesday, and New Yorkers found themselves all but cut off from the modern world as the U.S. death toll from Superstorm Sandy climbed to 40, many of the victims killed by falling trees.

The extent of the damage in New Jersey, where the storm roared ashore Monday night with hurricane-force winds of 80 mph, began coming into focus: homes knocked off their foundations, boardwalks wrecked and amusement pier rides cast into the sea. "We are in the midst of urban search and rescue. Our teams are moving as fast as they can," Gov. Chris Christie said. "The devastation on the Jersey Shore is some of the worst we've ever seen. The cost of the storm is incalculable at this point." As the storm steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain, more than 8.2 million people across the East were without power. Airlines canceled more than 15,000 flights around the world, and it could be days before the mess is untangled and passengers can get where they're going.

The storm also disrupted the presidential campaign with just a week to go before Election Day. President Barack Obama canceled a third straight day of campaigning, scratching events scheduled for Wednesday in swing state Ohio. Republican Mitt Romney resumed his campaign, but with plans to turn a political rally in Ohio into a "storm relief event." Sandy will end up causing about $20 billion in property damage and $10 billion to $30 billion more in lost business, making it one of the costliest natural disasters on record in the U.S., according to IHS Global Insight, a forecasting firm. Lower Manhattan, which includes Wall Street, was among the hardest-hit areas after the storm sent a nearly 14-foot surge of seawater, a record, coursing over its seawalls and highways.

Water cascaded into the gaping, unfinished construction pit at the World Trade Center, and the New York Stock Exchange was closed for a second day, the first time that has happened because of weather since the Blizzard of 1888. The NYSE said it will reopen on Wednesday. A huge fire destroyed as many as 100 houses in a flooded beachfront neighborhood in Queens on Tuesday, forcing firefighters to undertake daring rescues. Three people were injured. New York University's Tisch Hospital evacuated 200 patients after its backup generator failed. About 20 babies from the neonatal intensive care unit were carried down staircases and were given battery-powered respirators.

A construction crane that collapsed in the high winds on Monday still dangled precariously 74 floors above the streets of midtown Manhattan, and hundreds of people were evacuated as a precaution. And on Staten Island, a tanker ship wound up beached on the shore. Some bridges into New York reopened, but some tunnels were closed, as were schools, Broadway theaters and the metropolitan area's three main airports, LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark. With water standing in two major commuter tunnels and seven subway tunnels under the East River, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was unclear when the nation's largest transit system would be rolling again. It shut down Sunday night ahead of the storm. Joseph Lhota, chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said the damage was the worst in the 108-year history of the New York subway.

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[Soggy in NOLA]

Hurricane Sandy drowns coverage of White House scandals​

10/30/2012
By: Neil Munro


Hurricane Sandy is helping drown media coverage of several White House scandals in the crucial run-up to Election Day.

The storm has also dampened coverage of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s progress in critical Midwest swing states.

On Monday, the networks’ cameras were pointed at Obama as he stood at a White House podium to sketch out his administration’s response to the oncoming hurricane.

“I’m extraordinarily grateful for the cooperation of our state and local officials. … At this point, there are no unmet needs,” he said, speaking as the president, instead of a candidate.

The cameras weren’t pointed, however, at the Obama administration’s proliferating scandals, including the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” gun-smuggling project, the Treasury Department’s decision to strip Delphi Automotive workers of their pensions and the administration’s intelligence leaks.

The cameras also weren’t pointed at the top GOP officials who recently began demanding the White House provide support for Obama’s claims that he directed his deputies to immediately secure U.S. diplomatic sites after jihadis assaulted the Benghazi consulate on Sept. 11.

Read more:
Hurricane Sandy drowns coverage of White House scandals | The Daily Caller

Hurricane Sandy is a Democrat Plot.

Hardly.... I know, it's called sarcasm.

 

[waltky]

Sandy gonna be a costly storm...

Sandy: Damage estimated at up to $20bn
30 October 2012 - Businesses on the US East Coast have continued to be disrupted by storm Sandy, with total damage estimated at between $10bn and $20bn (£6bn-£12bn).

Sandy has flooded subway and road tunnels in much of Lower Manhattan. Beyond New York City, public transport has been halted in several eastern US cities, and thousands of flights have been grounded. And US stock markets have had to close again on Tuesday, the longest period since 9/11. It is also the first time the weather has shut them for two consecutive days since 1888. The estimate of damage comes from disaster risk modelling firm Eqecat.

Both the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and the Nasdaq exchanges plan to reopen on Wednesday. NYSE said that its famed trading floor - based close to the major flooding in Lower Manhattan - remained undamaged. Wednesday is a key trading day because it is the last day of the month, when traders price their portfolios.

Transport disruption

Sandy threatens an 800-mile (1,290-km) swathe of the US, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes in the Mid-West and killed 66 people in the Caribbean last week before pounding the East Coast of the US. The storm has closed thousands businesses and severely affected the infrastructure of the nation. The closure of public transport along the US East Coast means millions of people are unable to get to work.

Air traffic to and from the region has also been severely disrupted and nearly 14,000 flights were cancelled, potentially hurting airlines that were already struggling in the weak economy. Amtrak has suspended passenger train services across the north-east. The UN headquarters in New York is also to stay closed, while public transport was suspended in Washington DC, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Boston.

Rebuilding benefits

 

[Claudette]

As a hurricane it will be gone. I've been through loads of em down here in Florida. Coverage of the storm will end when the next thing rolls in to take precidence.

There will be plenty of coverage for the campaign. Voting is right around the corner and none of the LSM channels will miss an opportunity to cover it.

 

[Sarah G]

Do the OP and LoopyGunLover have yet more phoney scandals to cover?

 

[LilOlLady]

There's no white house scandals, just jumbled minds of right wing idiots that listen to Fauxnews prophets.

 

[nitroz]

No, not really. Fox is still covering the scandals. The other networks never did.

 

[DutchBoy]

Better a president who can drown scandals with a hurricane than a president who acted scandalous with hurricane Katrina. It meens he is doing his job very well.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Hurricane Sandy drowns coverage of White House scandals​

10/30/2012
By: Neil Munro


Hurricane Sandy is helping drown media coverage of several White House scandals in the crucial run-up to Election Day.

The storm has also dampened coverage of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s progress in critical Midwest swing states.

On Monday, the networks’ cameras were pointed at Obama as he stood at a White House podium to sketch out his administration’s response to the oncoming hurricane.

“I’m extraordinarily grateful for the cooperation of our state and local officials. … At this point, there are no unmet needs,” he said, speaking as the president, instead of a candidate.

The cameras weren’t pointed, however, at the Obama administration’s proliferating scandals, including the Justice Department’s “Fast and Furious” gun-smuggling project, the Treasury Department’s decision to strip Delphi Automotive workers of their pensions and the administration’s intelligence leaks.

The cameras also weren’t pointed at the top GOP officials who recently began demanding the White House provide support for Obama’s claims that he directed his deputies to immediately secure U.S. diplomatic sites after jihadis assaulted the Benghazi consulate on Sept. 11.

Read more:
Hurricane Sandy drowns coverage of White House scandals | The Daily Caller

Drowning?

Coming from the guy who's been flooding this board with dozens of nonsense threads about Benghazi,

that's an interesting choice of words.

 

[NYcarbineer]

No, not really. Fox is still covering the scandals. The other networks never did.

lol, I was at the grocery store the other day and overheard some guy saying that he had to quit watching Fox because they wouldn't shut up about Benghazi.

 

[Horse]

20 Billion in Damage, or less than half of what Obama blew on Green Energy.

 

[Inthemiddle]

That bastard incompetent President cooked up an entire hurricane to distract Americans from his crap record.