The Media Research Center was in full Trump Regime Media mode in playing damage control over flooding in Texas this summer, deflecting attention from the effects on it caused by the Trump administration and climate change:
- Death Spiral: Stephanopoulos, Bash Lamely Try to Pin Texas Flood Deaths on Trump
- CNN Hack Doubles Down on Trump Being Possible Cause of Flooding Deaths
- DISGUSTING: Univision Suggests Trump Admin ‘Had an Effect’ on Deadly Texas Flood
- Texas Soaked, Bloomberg Smoked? Lefty Billionaire Blames ‘Climate Denialism’ for Floods
- Maddow: Trump ‘Taking Action’ to ‘Lessen Our Readiness’ for Floods
- Kate Bolduan Suggests Doublethink on NWS Cuts Impacting Texas Floods
- Bill Nye Pops Up on CNN to Tie TX Flooding to U.S. Not Ditching Fossil Fuels
- MSNBC: Stop Blaming People for Texas Floods, Blame Climate Change
- CNN Forced to Walk Back Original Claims of Trump at Fault for Floods
- Don Lemon Goes On and On, Blames Trump For Poor Texas Floods Reporting
Meanwhile, Nicholas Fondacaro feigned shock in his daily hate-watch of “The View” that co-host Whoopi Goldberg wasn’t rushing to blame Trump, though she “did seem to blame the state of Texas broadly.” Curtis Houck whined that reporters dared to ask questions of state officials about it:
Tuesday morning’s Kerr County, Texas press conference on last week’s apocalyptic floods flew off the rails because of the showboating antics of ABC and CNN’s reporters on scene — ABC with Matt Gutman and CNN with both Shimon Prokupecz and Isabelle Rosales — shouting at local officials (and, at one point, each other) and demanding heads roll for the death toll that crossed north of 100 people.
Rosales started things off, twice asking officials to “outline what specific discussions and actions were taken between the time the first flood emergency came in at 1:14 a.m. and then when the river first started flooding its banks hours later.”
Kerr County, Texas Sheriff Larry Leitha started to answer but this was all he got out before Prokupecz jumped in: “What I can tell you when I was first notified it was around the 4 to 5 area. One of my sergeants was in dispatch when the first calls started coming in the actual 911 calls come in.”
Prokupecz scoffed, stating in an exasperated sense: “That was at, like, four in the morning?”
[…]Without fail, national reporters — huge crews, large salaries, and more — will always make it about themselves as though they’re stars of the show, not the middle-class Americans who will still be cleaning up trees and mud once these big whigs leave.
Houck never explained why such questions should not have been asked, or why national reporters are supposedlyt showboating by asking them.
Intern Matthew Seck showed how he learned how to act like servile Trump Regime Media during his summer internship:
On Tuesday night, MSNBC’s The Briefing With Jen Psaki cited FEMA cuts as a main factor for the response to the Texas floods. Psaki still used this narrative despite multiple reports coming out that emergency management and response had been on par with or exceeded expectations.
[…]Despite claiming that Trump had been “weaponizing FEMA” to “punish political enemies,” Trump had never withheld funding to disasters for political reasons. Ironically, under the Biden administration, a FEMA staffer was fired for telling workers to ignore homes of Trump supporters during Hurricane Helene relief efforts.
Another summer intern, Lucas Escala, did much the same thing:
Disgraced former CNN host Don Lemon expressed on his Wednesday podcast that he has had enough of the way legacy media was covering the Texas floods. The problem wasn’t that the media was trying to politicize the event, unnecessarily and inaccurately placing blame on President Trump’s cuts to various government weather agencies. The problem was that the media wasn’t politicizing it enough.
[…]Legacy media’s problem is not that they are stifled by the presidency. The problem is that their reporting is stifled by their obsessive hatred for the president. Good reporting is not glossing over suffering to push an agenda and get more information. It should strive for the truth while still prioritizing the known facts and reality of the situation, something Lemon and many others in the media seem to have long forgotten.
Would Escala or any other actual MRC employee similarly claim that right-wing outlets like Fox News and Newsmax (and, yes, the MRC) spread lies about election fraud after the 2020 election because their obsessive hatred for Joe Biden led them to fail to strive for the truth? Unlikely.