Here is Brian Stelter, making a fool of himself, and CNN, and the Axis of Unethical Conduct, again:
This is the depth to which this cosmic hack will stoop to bolster his propaganda-spewing pals in the Axis. Censoring free speech is the equivalent of putting out deadly fires! Brilliant, but telling. This is CNN!
And this is CNN: CNN “factchecker” Daniel Dale rushed to try to defend the incompetence of L.A. and California Democrats, saying “There is no shortage of water in the LA area,” and babbling that reports of fire hydrants being dry were due to “technical logistical infrastructure,” whatever that means. You can’t check facts before the facts are known: a major investigation will be required to determine exactly what went wrong, what public officials were at fault, and what factors were in play regarding the devastating Palisades fires. Never mind, though: to those brave factcheckers, a lack of facts won’t dissuade them from rushing into debates and drowning opinions that might singe the Woke and Wonderful.
Janisse Quiñones, chief executive and chief engineer at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said that the fire response put immense strain on the water system. That would seem to suggest a shortage of water, no? Or the fact that many fire hydrants were dry, according to the firefighters who tried to use them. The Santa Ynez Reservoir the Pacific Palisadeshas been out of commission since February 2024, meaning 117 million gallons of water was missing, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Meanwhile, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, desperately saying anything he could come up with to preserve his presumed status as the front-runner for the Democratic Party’s 2028 Presidential nomination, told NBC News that the state’s reservoirs are full. He also said, more accurately, there will be an independent investigation of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
It should come as no surprise that these essential public servants, the Axis factcheckers, didn’t choose to factcheck shameless Biden paid liar Jan Psaki, now a paid liar on MSNBC, who told viewers. completely without facts, that the California fires weren’t the fault of anyone in California at all, but Donald Trump for not doing enough to combat climate change. The Axis of Unethical Conduct (that’s the “resistance,” Democrats, and the left-biased mainstream media for those unfamiliar with the Ethics Alarms term) sense that accumulated incompetence and bad progressive policies on display as homes burn might be a tipping point for ridiculously woke California, causing millions of voters to suddenly slap their foreheads and exclaim, “Why have we been voting for these liars and idiots?” I have my doubts that anything short of mass deprogramming can achieve that result, but still what we are getting from Stelter, Psaki and others reeks of panic and desperation.
Ethics Alarms 
They pardoned Hunter for any crime he may have, could have, or thought of participating in for the past decade. So it makes sense, in their heads” that Trump who has been out of office for four years and wont take office for a week is responsible for this disaster.
You know Stelter is kind of correct… in the world of Fahrenheit 454.
Maybe that’s what he’s thinking of…
I have no problem with information checkers. That is what community notes is supposed to do. Even community notes should be viewed skeptically. Information without checkable sources is worthless. Moreover, opinion presented as facts must be evaluated based on what is provided as proved evidence. I draw the line however where the “fact checkers” are allowed to take down alternate points of view because they do not fit with some consensus pov. Stelter would be absolutely against fact checkers who could provide competing information to his remarks in real time.
“The fires are the result of climate change,” appears to be a lefty issued talking point. You see it quite a bit. And of course, Republicans are responsible for climate change because they don’t want to spend gazillions of dollars doing all sorts of pointless, expensive things in a futile effort to address climate change. One piece a saw the other day blamed the fires on the Industrial Revolution!
That’s funny, given that in the period before the Industrial Revolution – when CO2 levels were much lower than they are now – yearly burn acreage in America was multiples higher than it is now.
And I also think it’s hilarious that the (empty) talking heads are blaming President Trump for fires when he’s been out of office for four years. I’m guessing that means when a fire occurs during the next Trump Administration, we can blame Biden and Harris for it.
“And I also think it’s hilarious that the (empty) talking heads are blaming President Trump for fires when he’s been out of office for four years.”
Yep. Trump’s evil simultaneously succeeded AND preceded him from and to the White House, this time burning all of California in its wake. He is pure evil. EVIL, I tell you!
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I think the point they’re trying to make, rather ineptly, is that it’s a question of where the water is and how it gets to where it’s needed. Fire hydrants typically use the same system as municipal drinking water. So even if you have a vast reservoir of untreated water to draw into the system, you don’t necessarily have the capacity to process and distribute it quickly enough to satisfy the demand of dozens of fire hydrants at once.
Which, to me, raises the question, “why not?” Sure, standard practice might not be to size municipal water systems to support sustained large-scale firefighting, but maybe L.A. of all places should have broken the mold? Maybe L.A. needs a parallel nonpotable water system for firefighting, capable of massive throughput with minimal treatment? If they’re going to propose massive public expenditures for high speed rail projects that go nowhere, surely that’s worth looking into.