A Maddow Miss

For John, BLUF:  There are lots of feel good stories out there, stories of people going above and beyond, but the Media seems to be thinking about what a failure the President is, and also all those Deplorables who are supporting him.  This is about two USNS Hospital Ships.♠  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Madness and Maddow

From The Chicago Boyz, by Sgt. Mom, 31 March 2020.

Here are the first two sentences:

The Navy hospital ships promised by President Trump to deploy to New York and Los Angeles arrived on-station as ordered a few days ago.  MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, presumed for some obscure-to-me reason to be associated with the provision of news to the public, and most recently famed through peddling Russian conspiracy theories regarding Trump’s election for the past three years, had ridiculed the President’s proposed schedule as “nonsense.”

Or, as put at the InstaPundit:

PROFILES OF THE FUTURE:

● Shot:  “In terms of the happy talk we’ve had on this front from the federal government, there is no sign that the Navy hospital ships that the president made such a big deal of, the Comfort and the Mercy, there’s no sign that they`ll be anywhere on-site helping out anywhere in the country for weeks yet.  The president said when he announced that those ships would be put into action against the COVID-19 epidemic.  He said one of those ships would be operational in New York harbor by next week.  That`s nonsense.  It will not be there next week.” — MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, March 20th.

● Chaser:  “The Mercy arrived in L.A. on Friday, March 27, just one week after Maddow said the ship will take weeks to arrive. The USNS Comfort arrived in New York City’s harbor on Monday, March 30.” — “Rachel Maddow Calls The Timely Arrival Of Navy Hospital Ships ‘Nonsense,’” the Federalist today.

As Sgt Mom put it, there was a great story missed, in how the shipyard workers doubled down and got those ships to sea quickly.  Not quite the Battle of Midway, where the shipyard workers from Pearl were still aboard, working, when one of the US Carriers sailed to intercept the Japanese fleet, but still a magnificent effort.  Let's hear it for shipyard workers.♥

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff

♠  A USNS, a United States Naval Ship, is a mostly civilian manned ship of the US Navy, as opposed to a "USS", which is a Commissioned US Navy Combatant.
♥  My association is that I was once a busboy in a Cafeteria at the long gone Long Beach Naval Shipyard.