While this, uh, horrible situation has gotten a particularly high amount of attention, there are roughly 1,000 cases a year of a train derailing,” Secretary Pete Buttigieg said, attempting to reassure Yahoo Finance viewers in a video posted February 16 that the catastrophe in East Palestine, Ohio, is really not so bad in the grand scheme of things. It had taken almost two weeks before news of the trainwreck penetrated Buttigieg’s bubble. Touring among allied journalists, Buttigieg gave 23 media interviews during the first 10 days after the incident without receiving a single question about the disaster.
But vigilante journalists broadcasting from smartphones and on podcasts began sending out pictures of streams filled with dead fish and oily chemicals. Impoverished residents coughed up blood during interviews. Buttigieg, fluent only in wokespeak, seemed surprised and annoyed that his usually potent charm failed to bewitch Americans seeking real assurances.
With fresh scenes of fishkills and toxic plumes of phosgene gas rising from the East Palestine trainwreck, Buttigieg seemed not to understand what all the fuss was about. Equally tone deaf Joe Biden gave a speech on February 16, almost two weeks after the accident, to discuss the weather balloons being shot down by the military. Under normal circumstances, it would not be necessary for the Biden Administration to comment on a story that does not enhance the current official narrative. It has enjoyed unprecedented media protection. The disgraceful withdrawal from Afghanistan, spiking inflation and crime rates, a crumbling and unsafe infrastructure now even more neglected after diversions of “infrastructure” spending to “human infrastructure,” none of these inspires questions among the lapdog media. It matters not how bad things get, media coverage smooths things over and shifts blame to former President Donald Trump.
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