Ken Berwitz
CBS This Morning spent an entire segmentof the show painting Michigan Governor as the bad guy in theFlint Michigan tainted water scandal. They likened it to a “Katrina moment.” The segment then turned entirely into a Hillary Clinton campaign commercial.Everything centered around what Hillary had to say. Clinton was quick to seizeupon the issue and make it political. She promptly set fire to the issue wheninjected race into it, saying that it was a “civil rightsissue.“
Not content with that, she had another sniper fire moment:
“I issued a statement about what we needed to do and then Iwent on a TV show and I said it was outrageous that the governor hadn\’t acted,” Clinton said. “And within two hours he had.”
As with the sniper fire, it was bullsh*t. Snyder had sought help fromFEMA days before. That was in addition to Snyder distributingfilters back in September.
“I think the governor\’s incredibly thinned skinned on thisissue,” Democratic consultant Joe DiSano said Monday. “Tragedies like thishappen when you run government like a business, and this is wholly owned by theMichigan Republican Party and Gov. Snyder.”
Absolutely false. This, just as in New Orleans, is a democratowned issue and the left is furiously trying to turn it around. Thatreversal is facilitated in no small part by the vapid, shallow Pennesquereporting by CBS News.
Here\’s how it all went down.
Flint Michigan has been run by democrats fora long time. They ran it so far into the ground that an emergency manager wasappointed to run the city in September of 2013 – democrat DarnellEarly. To save money for the city, the (democrat) FlintCity council voted in March of 2013 to stop buying water from Detroit and jointhe Karegnondi Water Authority. Problem was, the KWA would not beready for three years and another source of water was needed.It\’s unclear how ithappened, but the Flint river became the source of the town\’s water.One thing is clear – it was all democrats. Here they are celebrating theswitch to the Flint river as the source of the city\’s water:
On April 25, 2014 democrat Mayor DayneWalling ceremoniouslycloses the valve shutting off Detroit water:
Originally democrats pinned the blame on Early. In Octoberthe Michigan democratic Party called on Snyderto fire Early. Early resisted:
“The decision to separate from (the Detroit Water andSewerage Department) and go with the Karegnondi Water Authority, including thedecision to pump Flint River water in the interim, were both a part of along-term plan that was approved by Flint\’s mayor, and confirmed by a CityCouncil vote of 7-1 in March of 2013 – a full seven months before I began myterm as emergency manager,” Earley\’s email says.
Ready for the best part of this? The democrat obamaadministration has known about this since last April:
In February 2015 the democrat-controlled cityof Flint hired urbanwater expert Veolia North America to analyze the situation.They came back with a report:
\’Your water is safe\’
This is not a new event. The grandstanding by HillaryClinton is simply loathsome but typical. The administration has known aboutthis since April and it did nothing. Hillary promises to continue that traditionand she\’s got CBS’s Hillary Clinton This Morning’s propagandists unabashedlypromoting her campaign.
