DoubleStandard?dradnatSelbuoD (Katrina)
In 1995, Chicago experienced a massive heatwave that killed 700 people.
The incident was a naturally-occurring weather phenomenon.
Eric Klinenberg writes in Slate:
But heat waves kill more people in the United States than all of the other so-called natural disasters combined. More than 400 Americans die from heat-related illnesses in a typical year. Annual mortality from tornadoes, earthquakes, and floods together is under 200.
Science News Online writes:
Chicago's 1995 heat wave, which killed 700 people, singled out those who live alone, are bedridden and need assistance, or lack social supports.
Does any of this sound familiar to you?
And who was the president in 1995? Bill Clinton. As much as I have Googled and MetaCrawler'd this story, I can't seem to find one article laying the blame for these 700 deaths at the feet of Chicago's mayor, Illinois' governor, nor the President and the federal goverment.
What's the difference now, you ask? The MSM plus a Republican president.
There,...I said it. Plain and simple, folks, leftist bias in its truest form.
posted by TheBitterAmerican @ 7:00 PM
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I'm from Chicago and I lived here in 1995.
Mayor Daley, a Democrat, came in for a whole lot of criticism for the 1995 heat wave. Why? Because first he said there were no victims, that those 739 people would have died anyway. Then he said the city was blameless, the victims were to blame because they didn't seek out the help that the city would have been willing to give.
In short, he ducked all responsibility until his feet were held to the fire, then he appointed a commission to investigate the heat wave, and much later the commission released a whitewash report.
He is unfortunately still the Mayor.
The state and federal governments? What for? It wasn't a state or federal thing. The city wasn't half-destroyed, it didn't need evacuation, there was no looting, there was no rebuilding. No federal aid was requested or given. It wasn't that kind of disaster, it isn't a comparable situation with Katrina.
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