I have to hand it to the media. Their ceaseless attempts to appear non-partisan just continues to get them into trouble. Since they were so tough on President Bush during the cascading Hurricane Katrina response debacles (and with good reason) it's like they have to prove they can be tough on the current President as well. To that end, they just keep trying to make an Obama-led scandal of comparable magnitude and horror out of...well, anything. Remember when the so-called IRS scandal was Obama's Katrina? No. How about the
BP oil spill being Obama's Katrina? Honestly, there's so many of these ginned-up Katrinas it's hard to keep track. But basically everything from Mondays being sucky to the Buffalo Bills not winning the Superbowl has been trotted out by one media outlet or other as the scandal that will end a Presidency (which even the
real Katrina wasn't able to do).
This sort of nonsense used to only be seen in darker corners of the conservative media, say the Washington Times and Fox News, but not exclusively. It's the latest in media fads. Arianna Huffington wrote a piece back in 2009 asking the question Will the unemployment disaster be Obama's Katrina? Now even the New York Times wants to get in on the action. For you see, the rollout of healthcare.gov has gone poorly...so KATRINA!!
