Losing Sight of Reality

Tonight, there are two major stories that should dominate the news.  The rain in Texas continues to come down in buckets.  Reporters are saying things like "only" another ten inches of rain is expected in the next 36 hours in Houston.  The city is flooded and it is just getting worse.  Adding another foot or so of rain is a natural catastrophe, the likes of which have not been seen for a long time.  Then, on top of the continuing storm in Texas, we have a new man-made storm in North Korea.  Kim Jung Un had his people launch a ballistic missile that crossed over Japanese air space.  Unlike the other missile launches this year which stayed away from other countries, Kim's latest one went over top of Japan.  It's a step closer to war.

Both of these stories are extremely important.  So what do you think that Rachel Maddow covered tonight on her program on MSNBC?  It was all Trump/Russia.  There's nothing really new, but Rachel decided to go over it all one more time.  It was staggering to think that millions of Americans in the greater Houston area are in danger and many are in extremis, and the star of MSNBC is spending her supposed news show discussing old nonsense.

I know that I always accuse the left of living in a bubble; indeed, it's something I strongly believe.  Still, it's an amazing thing to learn that in Liberal land, the region that exists in DC, Manhattan, Hollywood and a few other precincts across America, the plight of Houston doesn't even invade the consciousness of the media.