Saturday, May 16, 2015

Two Effective Conservative Media Responses

On occasion, The Blower’s had some unkind words for our RINO Speaker of the House John Boehner, but not during the Speaker’s weekly press conference on Thursday when senior political writer at the International Business Times Ginger Gibson began to ask about the Disingenuous DemocRATS’ claim that part of the blame for the Amtrak tragedy belongs to the GOP’s refusal to spend more money on infrastructure. 

Boehner didn’t even allow her to finish the question; instead he cut in with an angry rebuke:

“Are you really going to ask such a stupid question?” Boehner blasted. “Listen, you know they started this yesterday, ‘it’s all about funding, it’s all about funding.’ Well, obviously it’s not about funding. The train was going twice the speed limit. Adequate funds were there. No money’s been cut from rail safety, and the House passed a bill earlier this spring to reauthorize Amtrak and authorize a lot of these programs. And it’s hard for me to imagine that people take the bait on some of the nonsense that gets spewed around here.”

Way to go Boehner. Even a blind pig can find an acorn once in a while.

Meanwhile in Kentucky

Bluegrass Bureau Chief Ken CamBoo found this item in Truth Revolt about Nelson County Sheriff Ed Mattingly’s statement Monday that officials were “glad” that a man who was shot by a deputy was “white,” adding that though they “shouldn’t have to be worried about that,” they didn’t want “backlash or violence” due to the public being “misinformed” by the media. [READ MORE HERE]

In a joint press conference Monday with Bardstown Police Chief Rick McCubbin about the shooting of John Kennedy Fenwick, 25, over the weekend, Sheriff Mattingly said candidly that they couldn’t help but “take notice” of the mishandling of police-involved shooting cases by media outlets and were “glad” they wouldn’t have to deal with “misinformed” backlash due to racial implications.

MATTINGLY: We are glad that he is white, and we shouldn’t have to be worried about that. We do not want any backlash or violence in this community because people have been misinformed.

Mattingly underscored the role the media played in drumming up tension in communities, citing their failure to effectively educate the public about law enforcement and the legal system:

MATTINGLY: The media has not done a very good job of informing the public, and the public is not educated on how the system actually works. We don’t want those type of troubles in our community.

Way to go, Sheriff. That’s telling them where the bear shit in the buckwheat!

   More Effective Conservative Media Relations Later