More Than A Might Silly

The Amarillo Globe News has today editorialized that Texas Governor Rick Perry was shirking some sort of job responsibility by not arriving in the prairie fire ravaged Panhandle until four days after the flames had alighted.

Media Editorial Analysis

Even for a Texas Press Corps on constant vigil for any Gubernatorial misstep, real or (often) imagined, this is a particularly feeble example of their chasing their own tail.

Unless the Governor arrives with his plane brimming with buckets of water, or his aircraft somehow causes the clouds to burst on approach, there is very little he can do for that unfortunate area.

The Job Is Already Filled

Is he supposed to immediately arrive and man the wheel of a hook-and-ladder? Is he the only person in the state qualified and available to organize a Smurf Fire Line?

The only thing that might actually occur is the entourage attending a Gubernatorial foray might impede the emergency services implementation necessary in a situation such as this. It was, in fact, a wise move for Governor Perry to have waited until the situation was a little better known and more in hand prior to his reaching the scene.

All of this Amarillo analysis of the Governor's alleged tardiness begs the question: okay, he has arrived, now what? What could he have done ninety-six hours ago that he can not do today? What window of opportunity once open closed during his four days worth of staying out of the way? Exactly what is it that the Globe News had in their collective tiny mind for him to do then that he can not do now?

Of course, had Governor Perry dispatched himself immediately to the conflagration, he would have more than likely been accused by the Media likes of these of playing politics with a tragedy, and told he should beat a path back to the Mansion; utterly insurmountable is the Press duress under which the Governor operates.

The Big Easy

This is strikingly similar to the National Press Corps' assault on President George W. Bush for his not visiting the New Orleans Salad Bowl and Swimming Pool sooner than he did.

A Gubernatorial attaché is but a trifling imposition when compared to that of the leader of the free world. We are quite sure that the fire and policemen in both instances would be grumbling under their breath "Get these people out of our way" should these elected officials do as the Press says and land amidst the thick of it.

This, latest piece of journalistic piffle is indicative of the liberal mindset on hit parade in the ideologically land and hip-locked National and Texas Press Corps'. Results do not matter a whit, feelings matter above all. President Bush and Governor Perry did not make the utterly desultory gesture of heading to a place where they knew their presence would assist not a bit, but it is a pointlessness that the Media dubs a show of compassion and therefore deems necessary above all rational action and analysis.

The Press With ...

To see the world through the Media looking glass, one is uncaring and unfeeling if one does not make the completely ineffectual gesticulation.

Of course, President Bush and Governor Perry both knew that the people charged with addressing the respective crises were doing what they were supposed to be doing, and they had, as they were exhibiting by their journalistically conspicuous absences, eminent faith and confidence therein. They also knew that they could be far more effective being elsewhere doing something, rather than being present merely feeling something and doing nothing.

Woody Allen once said that 90% of success is just showing up. If he had aimed a little lower, he would have made a great Media man.