Media Matters - "Fox News keeps praising Bobby Jindal -- why?"

[TomCADem]

It is amazing the degree to which the American people end up buying into the corporate media narrative. The regulation of the oil industry is lenient. The government resources to deal with a spill are inadequate. Its a conservative paradise where we rely on the ability of private business to police itself and clean up after its own mess. YET, once again, rather than underscoring the inability of private business to regulate itself, the oil disaster has ironically been used to attack the governmental involvement. Worse, the so-called prophets of free enterprise, such as Bobby Jindal, are suddenly out demanding more and more federal aid. Where is the media in pointing out this hypocrisy?

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006050004

As Fox News and the right-wing media continue their endless attacks on President Obama over his handling of the oil spill, they have elevated Gov. Bobby Jindal as the real leader of this crisis.
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But Jindal is not being praised by Fox News because of the specifics of his sand berms plan, as the quotes from Bolling and Huckabee make clear. Rather, he has become a media darling because of his criticism of the federal government's handling of the situation. Plain and simple.

Of course there's a great bit of irony here. As Jindal and the conservative media criticize the federal government for not deploying enough resources, they seem to overlook that they are the same ones who have championed the private sector over the public sector. Jindal himself just over a year ago said, "There has never been a challenge that the American people, with as little interference as possible by the federal government, cannot handle."

In this case, the private sector clearly caused the greatest ecological disaster in the history of the United States. But the private sector cannot clean up its own mess. Further, the states, including Louisiana, clearly cannot solve the crisis on their own.

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Jindal is certainly at the forefront of the conservative media campaign to discredit the ability of the Obama campaign to deal with the oil spill. But Jindal and the media conservatives will never be able to escape the fact that spills like this are bound to happen with more and more offshore drilling. Nor can they escape the fact that this ecological disaster is the consequence of the private sector's inability to clean up its own mess.

[OHdem10]

1. This is how the GOP build up their bench of Candidates for Higher

Office.

[Scurrilous]

2. K & R

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