OUR TURN – AT 8:27 P.M. ET:  It can't be denied.  Our side has waited for quite some time to stick it to those who stuck it to President Bush for Katrina.  Our sticking time has come.  Inventor's Business Daily examines the Obama role in response to the Louisiana oil spill, and the behavior of the press in covering that response.  It's okay to be judgmental.  Permission is granted:

As the Gulf Coast faced ecological disaster, the president yukked it up with White House correspondents. His Saturday radio address didn't even mention the oil spill. President Bush, call your office.

Rarely has media sycophancy been on such sharp display as in the largely indifferent response to President Obama's own indifference to the oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The coverage has been far different from that given to President Bush's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

And...

As the St. Petersburg Times editorialized about the damage that could soon hit Florida's shores: "President Obama met U2's Bono in the Oval Office on Friday when he should have been headed to the Gulf Coast." The fragile marshes and shorelines of the Mississippi Delta could wait. Bono was in the house...

...Other than mobilize the resources of the federal government, there's little the president personally could have done. But words are important, Obama has said, and pictures are worth thousands of words. We remember President Reagan's stirring words and the images of a nation comforted after the Challenger disaster. We will not remember the jokes at Saturday's correspondents dinner.

We also remember the harsh and largely unwarranted criticism of President Bush after Hurricane Katrina, although the state of Louisiana and the city of New Orleans, both governed by Democrats, dropped the ball as first and primary responders.

Finally...

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says it could be 90 days before a relief well is completed to address the Gulf spill. Nearly two weeks after the oil rig exploded, Obama appears at the site of a disaster not yet under control. Heckuva job, Mr. President.

COMMENT:  The editorial is correct in every respect.  The press is covering for the president, rather than covering him.  The administration's response is far slower than was Bush's response to Katrina.  But Keith Olbermann, who railed against Secretary of State Condi Rice going to the theater the night Katrina hit, is silent.  So is Anderson Cooper, who rushed to New Orleans for the storm, and found loads of human suffering, most of it caused by the incompetence of the city's mayor, although the focus was on Bush.

Pure hypocrisy, and another black mark on our biased and lazy press.

May 3, 2010