Bob McCarty Writes

The headline above isn’t true, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see headlines like it pop up during the next few days following news that senior Obama Administration officials had ordered a suspension of airlifts of critically-ill Haitians to the United States.

While driving to St. Louis Lambert International Airport earlier this evening, I heard a report about the suspension of airlift activities and immediately began thinking about how the liberal news media would have excoriated George W. Bush if the Haiti earthquake had occurred during his watch.

As of this posting, however, several media outlets — Associated Press via Fox News Channel, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN and an Orlando television station WESH — had published stories about the suspension of airlifts from Haiti. None, however, had included any criticism of President Obama despite the fact that many of them quoted people working on behalf of the federal government — people like Navy Capt. Kevin Aandahl, a spokesperson for the U.S. Transportation Command, and the U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth Merten.

Developing…

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UPDATE 1/30/10 at 8:47 p.m. Central: The Wall Street Journal reports tonight that (1) 100 critically-ill earthquake victims “will die in the next day or two” if the U.S. government doesn’t resume medical evacuations to the U.S., and (2) the U.S. military originally said that it had suspended the medical evacuations because of an apparent federal-state dispute over who would pay for their care.

UPDATE #2 1/30/10 at 10:08 p.m. Central: NewsOK, the web site of Oklahoma’s largest newspaper, published an article tonight under the headline, “Katrina II: U.S. Haiti relief falling far short.”