A basic question.
The Biden administration has been stonewalling its East Palestine chemical disaster from the beginning. Transportation Secretary Buttigieg took ten days to even comment on it in the most cursory fashion. East Palestine’s mayor stated that no one had reached out to him from the Biden White House until a day before a public event. And residents are still not being told the truth or given basic factual information.
During his Thursday visit to the site of a fiery train derailment that may have poisoned a small eastern Ohio town with a range of highly toxic chemicals, the Environmental Protection Agency chief, Michael Regan, told residents: “All families need to know that they are safe.”
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Federal agencies may not release the full list of chemicals for months.
These two things don’t go together.
Why hide the list of chemicals that were released? How are people supposed to know what they’re dealing with, without that?
If this had been happening under a GOP administration, the media would be asking those questions.
Instead, this is what it’s doing.
‘Chernobyl 2.0’? Ohio Train Derailment Spurs Wild Speculation. – New York Times
This is what Chinese or Russian state made looks like. And the New York Times, like the rest of the media, is state media under any Democrat administration and terrorist media under any administration that isn’t.
Under Democrat administrations that means covering up the worst possible abuses for political reasons.
If there were a Republican administration, the media would be demanding the full release of that list.
Since it’s the Biden administration, the media is covering it up instead.
Frank says
State media blacks out information from the masses then when you try to openly .
point this out. say at a social event ..the liberals will say “I didn’t hear that”.or you listen to too much Fox News , your conspiracist’s nut.
So so sad how far the media has been corrupted..
Thank you Daniel for you reporting and commenting on such a variety of news
Daniel Greenfield says
It’s a fraction of what’s going on, but I try to cover a variety of topics.
Jeff Bargholz says
Have you seen the news videos of the river in Palestine Ohio? (What a shitty name.) You can see the rainbow colored water from the chemical spill and the dead fishl!
This is a major disaster. What the F where those toxic chemicals doing on a train, anyway? What was their purported purpose? Where they being transported?
Shit.
Dan Foster says
It’s such a tired, worn out, tactic of the right to accuse others of doing what the right does all the time. Greenfield doesn’t care about the train derailment (it happened in flyover country). He’s never met the people who live in Palestine, Ohio. He probably thinks they’re terrorists because of the name of the place. He only models concern because a dem is in the White House.
Kasandra says
The entire handling of this by the Biden maladministration is a disgrace. Had the residents of E. Palestine been part of the Dem coalition of victims it would have been all over this with aid and assistance from the jump. But that population consists largely of white Republicans so, two weeks later, still crickets.
Daniel Greenfield says
Had they been identity politics group members, we’d be talking about systemic racism.
Since they’re not, clearly nothing bad happened.
Dan Foster says
It’s classism Greenfield. Careful now you might be accused of having a *gasp* socialist thought. D.Hoe might scream at you.
Jeff Bargholz says
Do you have any self respect a all?
Dan Foster says
You threatened to send me pictures of you having sex with your wife to prove how straight you are.
Jeff Bargholz says
Can you be any more of a fag?
You’re so so gay..
Dan Foster says
You threatened to send me pictures of you having sex with your wife to prove how straight you are.
Onzeur Trante says
This has become the modus operandi of this administration. It is alarming to think about the lies and cover=ups, particularly in the context of being on the brink of a possible global war.
glpage says
The people affected are rural folks, they don’t matter to the elites in DC.
Dan Foster says
Rural people don’t matter to any elites anywhere. It’s good your finally noticing part of the problem but you’ve got a lot of catching up to do. Capitalism is what’s killing us.
ron says
I hear on television that they also have refused to reveal the amounts of pollution that their tests showed. Is this true?
Jeff Bargholz says
Yes, it’s true. The EPA is lying its ass off, as usual.
Dan Foster says
The EPA or the train company?
Spurwing Plover says
I had a Aunt and Uncle who lived in Painesville just 106 Miles North of East Palestine
Jeff Bargholz says
Do you have any self respect at all?
Jeff Bargholz says
That comment was directed to Damn Fester.
Jeff Bargholz says
Cretin………Asshole.