Open borders and wealth redistribution were at the heart of former President Barack Obama’s concerns over the OceanGate Titan submersible as he harped on the “obscene inequality” of coverage when compared to another recent tragedy.
(Video: CNN)
Speaking with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Thursday, the former president remained in top activist form as he took advantage of overlapping events to push his Marxist agenda with the ever-present helping hand of corporate media.
The same day that Obama attended the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Nostos 2023, an annual event where he secured a $26 million grant for the Obama Foundation, he sat down with Amanpour to gripe over coverage of the search for OceanGate Titan’s submersible that had imploded with five passengers on board.
“Our democracy is not going to be healthy with the levels of inequality that we’ve seen generated from globalization, automation, the decline in unions, obscene inequality,” he told her. “You think about news of the day. Generally, we’re not talking about news of the day, but right now we have 24-hour coverage — and I understand it — of this submarine, this submersible that tragically is right now lost at the bottom of the sea.”
“At the same time, right here, just off the coast of Greece, we had 700 people dead. 700 migrants who were apparently being smuggled into here and it’s made news but it’s not dominating in the same way and in some ways, it’s indicative of the degree to which peoples’ life chances have grown so disparate,” Obama argued. “It’s very hard to sustain a democracy when you have such massive concentrations of wealth.”
While Amanpour nodded along, NBC News had run a similar story to the president’s lament on Wednesday as they reported on the ship that had capsized in the Mediterranean Sea days earlier which had been carrying aliens from countries that included Pakistan, Egypt, Syria, and Afghanistan.
Josie Naughton, CEO and co-founder of the U.K.-based NGO (nongovernmental organization) Choose Love had spoken to the outlet that wrote, “She said thousands more articles appeared to have been published about the submersible than about the migrant boat, ‘yet, it’s 100 times as many people who are feared to have lost their lives and these people, they were forced to flee their homes, they were looking for safety.”
Obama had said much the same at the event in Athens, Greece when he told attendees, “You think about what’s happening this week. There is a potential tragedy unfolding with the submarine that is getting, you know, minute-to-minute, coverage, all around the world. And you know it’s understandable, because we all want and pray that those folks are rescued.”
“But the fact that that’s got so much more attention than 700 people who sank. That’s an untenable situation,” he argued.
Whether or not the president was aware of the way he had used the media similarly during his administration as he ignored gang violence in places like Chicago to focus on the death of Trayvon Martin who, “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon” and “could have been me 35 years ago,” it seemed readily apparent that he was taking advantage of the juxtaposition to push once more for open borders.
As previously reported, joined with peers Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, Obama had formed an NGO to send aliens to the United States from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Ukraine and Nicaragua as well as Afghanistan all with backing from George Soros’ Open Society Foundation, itself suspected of funding Palestinian terrorist organizations.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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