Friday, December 31, 2004
This is starting to get my goat
There's no escape. Turn on the TV and all you get is up-to-the-minute tallies of which country has given what to the tsunami relief effort. The broadcasters have made it into some kind of horrible contest; it is itself becoming the story, rather than the devastation.
It might not be so bad if the unstated yet poorly hidden goal of this kind of reporting wasn't to bash the US. It started with that bastard Englund, Kofi's underling, who said that the US is stingy. You have to wonder if we could have avoided his rebuke if Bush had ordered C-130s to circle the Indian Ocean, dropping pallets of cash, and maybe some bottled water.
And it was all over a much-publicized initial figure of $35 million, which, even if that figure is smallish, is a very narrow and deceptive measure. But even now that the figure has grown by an order of magnitude to $350 million, the implication is that we're not giving enough. I say that's piffle.
Have these pundits bothered to make a survey of private giving, of individuals and charitable organizations stepping up big-time? No, and it's not bloody likely they will either. If they took the trouble they would see a massive effort, having and needing no impetus from the US government, to raise money and food, water and medical supplies. That's the way this country has always given most and best.
The broadcasters have become so shrill in flogging this horse that I have to wonder why they lead with this "contest" - given that their motives must be as clear as the blue sky to even the casual observer. Well, actually they have found something else to lead with. It's this: the prez was relaxing in Crawford, cruising fence-line, instead of making grand gestures of this country's concern for the lost and suffering. W should have been standing at a podium with a pouty look on his face, feeling the victims' pain.
Action speaks louder than words. And action is what we are seeing from the USA. Bush is in the by-now familiar position of being damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. He's pounded as greedy and uncaring for staying out of the limelight, foregoing opportunities to make nice for the cameras. Yet had he called in the national media to lament the suffering and make high-profile pledges to the stricken, he would have been excoriated for making political hay out of the tragedy.
It's a bunch of b.s.
It might not be so bad if the unstated yet poorly hidden goal of this kind of reporting wasn't to bash the US. It started with that bastard Englund, Kofi's underling, who said that the US is stingy. You have to wonder if we could have avoided his rebuke if Bush had ordered C-130s to circle the Indian Ocean, dropping pallets of cash, and maybe some bottled water.
And it was all over a much-publicized initial figure of $35 million, which, even if that figure is smallish, is a very narrow and deceptive measure. But even now that the figure has grown by an order of magnitude to $350 million, the implication is that we're not giving enough. I say that's piffle.
Have these pundits bothered to make a survey of private giving, of individuals and charitable organizations stepping up big-time? No, and it's not bloody likely they will either. If they took the trouble they would see a massive effort, having and needing no impetus from the US government, to raise money and food, water and medical supplies. That's the way this country has always given most and best.
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It's a bunch of b.s.
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