Fox, which DID NOT roll out a Bush Katrina Timeline, rolls out Oil Spill Is Obama's Katrina Timeline

Chris Wallace Rolls Out Timeline Which Implies the Administration Didn't Respond to the Oil Spill Immediately
By Heather Monday May 03, 2010 9:00am

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Trying to give merit to the right wing meme that the British Petroleum oil spill is somehow "Obama's Katrina", Chris Wallace rolls out a time line which implies that the Obama administration did not respond immediately to the disaster. Sec. Napolitano and Sec. Salazar pushed back and explained how the administration responded to the disaster from "the first hours of the explosion".

Media Matters has a detailed timeline of their own up to rebut this nonsense as well. Memo to media: Timeline contradicts "Obama's Katrina" claim:

A timeline of events following the catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill belies the absurd media claim that the spill represents "Obama's Katrina."

April 20 (10 p.m.): Oil rig explosion. An April 21 ABCNews.com article reported, "An overnight explosion in the Gulf of Mexico rocked the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the Louisiana coast, sending spectacular bursts of flame into the sky. The fires were still raging today." The U.S. Coast Guard's National Oil and Hazardous Substances Response System assigns primary responsibility for cleaning up oil spills to the spiller as the responsible party.

April 21: Deputy Secretary of Interior, Coast Guard dispatched to region. An April 22 White House statement noted that following a briefing with President Obama, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen, Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, EPA Deputy Administrator Bob Perciasepe, and FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, "Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Hayes was dispatched to the region yesterday to assist with coordination and response." The Coast Guard announced that four units were responding to the fire, with additional units en route. Read on...http://mediamatters.org/research/201004300053