Hysterical Headlines (Funny or Absurd) for February 12th
Bottom Line: These are the daily doses of nonsense in the media and my hot takes on them...
HOLLYWOOD NURSING HOME DEATHS FPL was warned people would die at a sweltering nursing home. But the utility had other priorities. - Sun-Sentinel
Hot Take: Sometimes I wonder if the desire to perpetuate a salacious story trumps all else. The headline and story perpetuated by the Sun-Sentinel is literally suggesting that FPL choose to let vulnerable seniors to die. That's slanderous in ways in which is borderline shocking. I've followed and detailed the failings with the Hollywood Hills Rehabilitation Center at length starting with the news breaking that fateful Wednesday following Hurricane Irma. We can make this complicated but it isn't. The Rehabilitation Center wasn't on the emergency restoration list. Steps have sense been taken to refine that process so that these types of facilities are but that's what this gets down to. A call into FPL about the power outage during emergency restoration doesn't change anything. They must follow protocol to restore those on the top priority lists first. Until all of that has occurred they simply can't deviate from the plan or else many more people could be at risk. It's shameful that the Sentinel choose to ignore these simple facts and known flaws about the Hollywood Hills facility not being on a priority list in the first place. But hey, you got your story, right?
The Far Right's Smear Campaign Against FBI, DOJ Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, WP
Hot Take: Did top FBI and Justice Department officials lie, omit and conspire to the FISA court? Yes or no? Out of the 30 statements of fact from the Nunes memo that's taking it down to brass tax. Without any attempt to even suggest otherwise by officials the only people being smeared are those in the fraudulent Steele dossier and those attempting to seek justice. It's reprehensible that any media outlet would put politics above justice, but such is the case with the pervasiveness of the corruption.
I Love a Parade, But Not With Trump as President Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
Hot Take: Well at least that's honest. Bigoted but honest.
Until tomorrow...