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As noted in Power Line

Is Barack Obama an insensitive lout who serves $100 per pound steaks to his elite guests and turns up the heat in the White House high enough to grow orchids while a million of his countrymen are without power and dozens are freezing to death? If not, why not?

Well, the victims are white, so I guess it’s OK.  And it’s happening on Obama’s watch, so nobody needs to know. The President is only responsible when he’s a Republican. Nothing can be allowed to interfere with the messianic narrative.

The folk at Power Line quote an Instapundit reader:

What Katrina taught the media was that they could hurt Bush by lying. What 2008 taught them was that they could help Obama by not reporting at all. What will 2009 teach them? I shudder to think.

It’s all about the narrative.  The world will be a better place with Obama. No matter how many people have to die.  The Democratic congress has “drained the swamp,” no matter how many go to jail.  The “stimulus” package is all about saving the economy, no matter that it concentrates on Democrat pet projects.  And the problem is all due to Republicans and the evil Wall Street people, no matter that it’s the Democrats who are in bed with them and forced the policies that created it.