The Patriot Post® · Crass Political Calculation

Arnold Ahlert: “[T]he restrictions the Obama administration are attempting to impose on members of Congress and the media are astounding. The HHS is telling members of Congress visiting the immigration detention center at Lackland that they cannot take pictures, use recording devices, or interact with staff or children. On Thursday when the media’s tour begins, they will be subjected to the same restrictions. The Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell offers the proper perspective on this administration’s efforts. ‘Imagine after Katrina that reporters are getting ready to go to New Orleans, and the Bush administration says to reporters, now one thing: no recording devices, no questions, no interacting with staff or children, no photos, and no interviews, but other than that you can cover Katrina,’ he said yesterday on Fox’s ‘Your World with Neil Cavuto.’ ‘The response would be that this is the statement of a dictatorship,’ Bozell added. This is indeed Obama’s Katrina moment with one giant difference: the same mainstream media that completely excoriated George W. Bush as indifferent at best, and racist at worst for flying above the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina remain appalling passive in the face of transparent insensitivity borne of nothing more than crass political calculation.”