Reality has a known left-wing bias

Does anyone see the difference I see here? In an article on how Roger Ailes is managing the blow-up of Beck, the paltryness of his hand-picked candidates for president, and greying of the Fox News audience, I saw this quote:

"For a while, if you pointed a camera at the news, Fox's ratings went up," a person close to Ailes explained. "There was the Florida recount, Bush v. Gore, 9/11, the 2004 election—until Katrina. Then the audience was kind of like, 'This is bad for the home team.'"

Note the difference there. Everything in the first list either demanded a military response or was a manufactroversy (although Bush v. Gore was a manufactroversy with debilitating consequences); Katrina is a nasty intrusion of callous reality into the daily lives of human beings. There was no one to attack. There was only humanitarian need.

This is a diamond illustration of the right-wing ideology. Humanitarian needs are irrelevant to the New American Century. Without someone to attack, the toolset of the right-wing mind is left without anything to grasp.

Notice that nobody's complained about FEMA under Obama? Apparently, it's been an effective, fast-moving, responsive agency in the hands of people who believe that government has role to play in the management of a nation.

This is unfortunate for Obama. As a friend of mine is fond of saying, "When you've done your job well, people think you've done nothing at all."

Anaheim Anecdote: Yes, Seattle really is that bad.

While I was waiting in line for some ride, I struck up a conversation with another fellow. It turned out he was from Brisbane, Australia. He asked me where I was from and I said, "Seattle, Washington."

"Oh, Seattle. Is it really as bad as they say? It rains all the time?"

"Yes and no. We have gorgeous summers. Four months of the year, the weather is absolutely perfect. Around late September, though, the grey lid clamps down and for eight months it really is that bad. Constant drizzle, chill, barely any snow, and no sun at all."

"Really?"

"Let's put it this way," I said. "Seattle summers lie to you about our city's livability. All of the people who move from a sunny place, like LA, to Seattle, in May... of all of those, one in eleven commits suicide before winter ends."

He seemed to believe me. I don't know if that's a good thing or not.