Straight reporting no longer a thing in dominant media when it comes to anything Trump
PICK THE NARRATIVE YOU LIKE…excerpts below
- NY Times presents a glowing portrait of Trump critic, San Juan mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, …Notably unsurprising
- Des Moines Register dutifully promotes the criticism of Trump
- WaPo entirely in sink
- A Puerto Rican female police officer delivers a somewhat different profile
- A Conservative blog chips in with a rather ‘unflattering’ account of the ‘courageous” mayor’s ‘efforts’ on behalf of ‘her people’
From the New York Times. Note how the title of the article implies Trump started it rather than responded to criticisms:
Who Is Carmen Yulín Cruz, the Puerto Rican Mayor Criticized by Trump?
“That has left Ms. Cruz to play the role of Puerto Rico’s chief critic of the recovery effort. “Censuring Trump certainly jibes with Ms. Cruz’s liberal worldview, but in some ways the mayor can seem as complex and contradictory as the neither-fish-nor-fowl United States commonwealth she calls home.
“She is a product of both the island and the mainland, a former star in the blue-chip world of corporate America who is beloved in the poorest barrios of the Puerto Rican capital. She is also an unapologetic supporter of Oscar López Rivera, the Puerto Rican militant associated with a group that carried out a deadly campaign of bombings in New York and other cities in the 1970s and 1980s.
“Ms. Cruz, according to a biography on the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce website, was an honor student and track-and-field star on the island who went on to receive degrees from Boston University and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She later worked as a human resources director for companies including Colgate-Palmolive, Banco Popular and Scotiabank, as well as the Treasury Department.
“She returned to the island in 1992, working as an adviser to a previous San Juan mayor, and was elected to the Puerto Rico House of Representatives in 2008.
“She was hardly a well-known figure when she ran for mayor in 2012 against a 12-year incumbent, Jorge Santini, who misjudged the threat and seemed to belittle her by calling her “esa señora,” or that woman. He also characterized her as a Venezuelan-style socialist. Ms. Cruz, meanwhile, stitched together a coalition of students; lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender groups; and people simply fed up with the status quo, and won. She was re-elected handily in 2016 against a lackluster opponent.”
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Consider, from the Des Moines Register today:
Trump blasts Puerto Rican mayor for ‘poor leadership’ in hurricane relief crisis
Again, the implication in the title is that Trump is picking a fight, rather than responding to someone’s criticism.
The article refers to Mayor of San Juan Puerto Rico Carmen Yulín Cruz, the vociferous critic of Trump and the latest media darling as she appears on every liberal oriented cable channel, instead of paying attention to administering aid in her community:
Cruz publicly called on the president to speed up the delivery of food, water, medicine and fuel, and “to make sure somebody is in charge that is up to the task of saving lives.”
“I will do what I never thought I was going to do. I am begging, begging anyone who can hear us to save us from dying,” Cruz said Friday. “If anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying, and you are killing us with the inefficiency.”
Cruz, in a Saturday appearance on MSNBC’s AM Joy, said it wasn’t just her saying the island needs help. Army Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Buchanan, the Washington Post reported, said Friday there was a lack of people and assets to assist the island.
“(A) three-star general (is) saying we don’t have enough,” she said. “So, it’s not only me.”
And the source for her summation of what the general said . . . none other than the Washington Post which provided its interpretation in this delightfully balanced article:
Lost weekend: How Trump’s time at his golf club hurt the response to Maria
As referred to by Mayor Cruz, there is no quote in the WaPo from General Buchanan but a characterization of what he allegedly said. So given the tone of the article’s title one might be suspect of the accuracy or balance. From other context we believe General Buchanan was referring to areas in the remote interior, a difficult situation to get aid to because of wiped out roads. The docks are full of supplies. Balanced reporting would have referred to – the Governor and the Mayor of a neighboring city who have high praise for the Trump administration’s effort.
There are other depictions of the performance of Mayor Cruz:
Via Conservative Tree House:
Radio Announcer 3: But what information do you have? What have you seen?
Police Caller: The Mayor, Carmen Yulin (Cruz), is not allowing anyone to distribute… We need… what Puerto Ricans need is that the U.S. armed forces come in and distribute the aid. And that they stop the governor, Rosello, and the mayor, Yulin, on doing what they are doing… It’s an abuse, it looks like communism, in our own island (sobbing)… (sobbing continues, inaudible translation due to cries)…
Police Caller (cont.): People are helping us, but they are not accepting it, they are not accepting anymore help supposedly: “they have to wait for the license, that there are no buses.” …Let me tell you something Boricuas (Puerto Ricans) are dying of hunger (crying continues) … This is a bureaucracy, everything has to be protocol, the lines are stretched. …We can only give one box of water per person (sobbing continues). …The medics here, people are dying, the hospitals are in crisis.
Police Caller (cont.): I am embarrassed, as a Boricua to work for Puerto Rico’s police and see that we cannot do anything. There are dozens and thousands and thousands of food and when people ask we cannot give anything away because [Mayor] Carmen Yulin says that we cannot take anything out; because everything is a soap opera, everything is a show and there have to be cameras here and there. ….Because you know they are just looking for votes for the upcoming years.
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Still more:
“CNN attempts to spin a narrative, FEMA Director refuses to engage. FEMA Director Brock Long explains how the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulin-Cruz has intentionally disconnected herself from the unified chain-of-command for Hurricane Maria relief efforts in favor of playing politics.
“Additionally and incredibly, Mayor Yulin Cruz has never even visited the San Juan Headquarters where FEMA, Dept. of Homeland Security, Dept of Defense, National Guard, Army Corps of Engineers and PR state governors office are communicating, prioritizing and responding to the urgent needs of municipal leaders and the citizens of Puerto Rico.”
Via Town Hall
Other Puerto Rican Mayor: Trump Has Been Great, San Juan’s Mayor Has Been AWOL
It is all par for the course as played by dominant leftist media. For a comprehensive treatment of the attitude by the leftist media that conservatism is not allowed to win read Clarice’ Feldman’s column today at American Thinker:
Everything (That’s Not Sexism) Is Racism
Left has its special coin to hand to conservatives, whichever way you flip it, you lose
DLH and R Mall
