As with the Media Research Center, Newsmax labored to deflect blame, or gave a pass to others in deflecting blame, for flooding in Texas away from President Trump in general and the Republicans who rule Texas in particular — or even tryting to assign any blame at all. For instance:
- Rep. Gonzales to Newsmax: Not Time to Scrutinize Officials’ Response to Floods
- Texas Land Commissioner to Newsmax: Shame on Those Spreading BS About Floods
- Leavitt: Blaming Trump for Texas Floods ‘Depraved’
- Authorities: We’ll Wait to Tackle Thorny Texas Flood Questions as Grim Search Grinds On
- Rep. Van Duyne to Newsmax: Blaming Trump for Texas Flood ‘Ghoulish,’ ‘Hateful’
- Officials Dismiss Questions on Lack of Warnings in Texas Floods
There was also an article by Jim Thomas noting that “Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer requested Monday that the Commerce Department’s inspector general investigate whether recent staffing changes at the National Weather Service hindered forecasts and emergency warnings during last week’s catastrophic flooding in Central Texas,” but making sure to add that “The NWS defended its forecasting capabilities and insisted that it had effectively issued urgent flash flood warnings in the hours leading up to the rapid rise of the waters.”
Michael Dorstewitz whined in the same vein in his July 7 column:
Democrats and legacy media figures always find a way to blame Republicans for every tragedy, whether it’s a natural disaster or a mass shooting. And they do it before all the facts are in and while rescue efforts are still ongoing.
The Central Texas flash flood was no exception.
Yet Dorstewitz complained when some blamed climate change:
[CNN’s] Dana Bash asked Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, if he believed that “the changing climate is a part of what we are seeing go on here?” He knew his lines and delivered them on cue: “I think that climate change is obviously a part of it.”But the public is finally waking up to the fact that the climate hysteria we’ve been subjected to for decades is little more than a scam, thanks to climatologists like Dr. Judith Curry who are fearlessly coming forward.
Referring to her own field of study during a recent interview, she remarked that “It’s not science anymore; it’s become a pseudoscience.”
If we truly “follow the science” as they suggest, we’ll find that there’s no emergency with the climate. The only “emergency” is the Left’s loss of control over our lives.
Curry is a right-wing climate change denier, so maybe she isn’t the best example Dorstewitz could cite. He then tried to change the subject:
But while mainstream media figures are beating the bushes trying to pin the Texas flood on Trump or climate change, they’re missing a truly amazing story — a story of heroism and hope.
And it was handed to them by the very Trump administration they’ve come to despise — in this case by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Dorstewitz didn’t mention that such heroism might not have been necessary had government officials properly done their job.