A heavily ladened merchant ship hit the key bridge in Baltimore on a Tuesday morning at 1:30 AM. This was a major catastrophe. Six people lost their lives.
Fast forward to the AM news talk shows. Beat reporters have submitted their news stories for publication. Major news agencies that dominate the airways have commissioned their “experts” to formulate possible scenarios based on the partial facts of what they know. The race to be first to report on such a major event outweighs the time it takes to conduct an unbiased and measured news story, based on the limited information available at the time.
Officials responsible for overseeing the investigation, are thrust into the spotlight with cameras and microphones stuck in their faces while being asked questions that they could not possibly have the answers for, BEFORE THE SCENE had even had a chance to be properly investigated.
Add in an election year president who wants to show the American people that he is thoughtful and responsive to such a major tragedy: before an investigation can be conducted to find out who’s responsible, the president steps up and accepts full responsibility for paying for the bridge to be rebuilt.
Huh?
How about making the owners of the ship, the merchants who have cargo on the ship, and the insurance for the ship and those merchants pay for the bridge!
I hope, after some consideration, he has people in his corner that will help him “walk that back”.