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Outrage! Media ignores Southern U.S. as it burns

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If you were watching the mainstream media Tuesday morning, you were probably unaware, but multiple red states were burning.

While CNN and other liberal news organizations reported for hours on the latest criticism of President-elect Donald Trump, a major wildfire raged out-of-control throughout the South, burning down a resort in Tennessee.

As these U.S. citizens scrambled for information from news sources, they were met with shocking indifference — and it may have cost one family everything.

Michael Reed is a resident of Gatlinburg, Tennessee whose home was one of the over 100 buildings lost to the wildfire Tuesday, and realized too late that his wife and daughters hadn’t been evacuated.

“After hearing about the fires, Reed and his son tried to drive to Gatlinburg. However, the two got stuck in traffic and were not able to turn around,” local station WBAC reported. “The last time he heard from them, he told his wife to call 911 for help after she said she saw flames across the street from the home. Michael and his son were able to get into Gatlinburg to visit shelters, but have not found them.”

“We are just hoping for a miracle,” Reed told the station, adding that there were some hopeful signs at his ruined home that the family had escaped.

During the blaze, social media users launched to a firestorm of their own, attacking the major news networks for their shamefully absent coverage.

https://twitter.com/Iamryankoch/status/803642026377953284

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— The Horn editorial team

 

 

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Comments

  1. Hondo Stone says

    Rumor has it that the fires were set of by a still “Fuming” Hillary Clinton as she went for a walk in the woods to try and cool off her total defeat by now President Trump.
    Hillary could not be found for comment!

      • Rob says

        Yes, if you look carefully you can see gasoline in the openings of branches. It’s one state away from me and I used to go there on vacations.

      • NJ says

        You’re right. They’re all over the U.S., especially the Southern states and New York, thanks to Obama’s resettlement plan. Nobody knows where they are or who they are. We’re sitting ducks in the South. And NOBODY is doing anything about it, even reporting on it.

      • Gary says

        I wonder. There have been tons of fires this year alone. Any way shame on the lame street media for not reporting. They will report all the left wing protesting going on and have doubled down on their incessant coverage of trump . Ridiculous. Expect 4 more years of it.

        • Frank says

          Only way to stop the corrupt media is to get in touch with advertisers on the news media channels and voice your displeasure about the liberal biased reporting and threaten to boycott the products they are trying to sell! If the money dries up just maybe they will fire the leftist reporters and replace them with actual journalist?

      • bub says

        Good, clean, accurate humor is absolutely necessary. The left, like yourself, need to learn to rid themselves of the PC crap and inject some real life understanding of humor into their miserably acrid personalities.

    • John & Phyllis Duncan says

      The fires in Israel were covered by the media more than the horrific fires in Gatlinburg. WHY?

  2. Col says

    Really, really sad commentary on our times, I just now heard about the fires, I wonder if they are related to the ones in Israel. They have been strangely silent on that too. My prayers go out to this man and his son, I pray he finds his wife and daughters.

    • AWM says

      A lady on a Fox News report out of TN (?) said 1 fire started on a small plot of land. Fire departments set up a containment area that was quite a large parcel of land, but the fire jumped the containment with multiple embers being blown by unusually high winds into neighboring fields that were dry due to a prolonged drought.
      The post that said Hillary started the fires was OBVIOUSLY a joke, and not a bad one either, if it weren’t for the fact that lives and properties have been lost.
      Saying that terrorists started them is a baseless accusation and obviously NOT a joke on your part. Such opinions do nobody any good. BTW: Israel is tight lipped about EVERYTHING that goes on there, even to us, their best allies!
      Finally, I too pray that this man finds his wife and daughters well, and that these fires will be put out very soon.

      • Hondo Stone says

        AWM…..I did not know there were fatalities, else I would not have made light of this matter.
        Peace to the loved ones of those who perished.

      • Gary says

        Obama has blown off Israel. Israel is an ally but Obama hates them . He loves Iran and Palestine though. After all he is Muslim. Glad he’s gone soon. Been a long 8 years under this tyrant.

  3. jrburns says

    CNN: Clinton News Network, CBS: Clinton Broadcast System, NBC: Nothing But Clinton

    It is shameful what the liberal news media broadcast.

    I too want to be updated on fires in Tennessee and North Carolina. Let California have a fire or a mud slide and the liberal new is all over it.

    • Pete Lothrop says

      You may be right about the liberal media, but lets remember that when there is a fire in CA there are people losing everything they have and some people may lose their lives.

      I know how bad the wild land fires in CA can be I worked for Cal Fire on the air tankers as a A & P mechanic and I have been out on those fires and have seen what they can do.

      The fires in TN and NC deserve to be covered and should be covered a lot better then they are, but that does not mean that the fires in CA are any less important especially to the people they affect!

  4. warren says

    Sad that our Main Stream Media is so focuses on their own personal agenda, they forget to actually REPORT the NEWS !
    They are so busy commentating, spinning and sensationalizing that the REAL NEWS becomes irrelevant to them !

  5. Mudguy says

    If Hillary had had a house there in Gatlinburg CNN and all the others would have been there until the fire has been put out.

  6. Eddie says

    This is reminiscent of the damn Yankee General Sherman and his march to the sea burning everything in sight. The spirit of General Sherman lives on in todays so called media. The South is on fire and nobody but we Southerners gives a damn. Just wait until there’s another mexifornia fire and it’ll be plastered all over the news. We here in the South are used to being hated and abused. It’s been going on now for close to 2 centuries. Odd thing though…..I’ve never heard of anybody retiring and moving North ! So you sorry ass media go on with your bad self and ignore us all you please…but bear in mind….one day we will own you because the South is gonna do it again !

    • Rosech says

      Eddie, the times are changing, thank God. Too many beautiful southern states and too many democrats who want government control and don’t give a darn about you or anyone else. I have a feeling that Trump will be down there pretty quickly to help out as he usually does, but will the MSM report it? Who knows? We will do our part to send aid of all kinds to both states and pray for each and every family for their losses of family and property.

      • Linda says

        Trump and Pence both called our Tennessee Governor Haslam yesterday about out Gatlinburg wildfire and deaths tragedy …did NOT hear that Obama did! I doubt that the rest of the nation heard that Trump did this. Can’t wait for Trump to finally take office.

  7. Yadja says

    Just as they ignored Israel and 50% of it burned by Muslims. My guess Muslims started these also before you think I am crazy it is in the Muslim playbook and they in fact do it in Australia a lot and now Israel. 14 different location on fire at once and they contain amusement parks and lodges and places people love to go for entertainment. How stunning. NOT

    • Mary says

      Take that vullshit somewhere else. I live here. These fires had nothing to do with Muslims or anyone with middle eastern decent. Making statements like this to make your point is disrespectful and a disgrace to the people that are suffering. A little more than a dozen fatalities and hundreds of properties and home gone. Not to mention the wildlife that was burned alive.

      In the worst area hit no one was evacuated and no one had any idea their neighborhood was on fire till it was within line of sight. And here the line of sight isn’t that far since the mountain and curves block vision. Most peoples yards and houses were on fire before they knew anything. By that time they were trapped.

  8. Lori says

    Shameful. No news other than FoxNews did I hear any comments at all about the wildfires. They have been going on almost this whole month and also surrounding Chattanooga, TN had wildfires. I pray that the rainstorms and tornado conditions we had in middle TN last night are now moving in over Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, and Gatlinburg today. They need all that rain. So much damage. The whole state was in a drought situation. The liberal medias always are concerning over the California wildfires.

  10. lizaz says

    The clinton news media is worthless…..we never watch them. Obama can complain about Fox News and Fox Business all he wants, but we have both channels on all day. Between them and Fox and Drudge online, we can keep up with everything going on, both positive and negative. The pathetic left is sinking into history, hopefully permanently!!!

  12. AWM says

    Suggestion: Why doesn’t some rich TX oil mogul start a news network of his own?

    It took a wealthy man from AUSTRALIA to finally get us some “Fair And Balanced” news! Go figure!

  13. Briguy says

    Set Vermont on fire, and see what happens! I’m sure the liberals would freak way out over that and report on it 24/7! They liberal media is totally irrelevant!

  14. Solo says

    I bet now with the recent stabbing and Muslim connection to the OSU stabbings, media or government ALWAYS finds ways to distract and/or misdirect the attention away from those kind of things….smh…the major fires have NOT got much attention and how long has the fires been burning?

  15. Justin W says

    The news media gives very little news these days. Now if Bruce Jenner had broke one of his/her fake nails the networks would have suspended all regular programming and covered it non-stop.

  16. June Ponder says

    A family member who lives in TN told me over the phone about the fires while it was still happening, said it was all over the local news stations. I turned on the TV in SC, not that far away, and the only place I could find anything about it was on the UNDERGROUND WEATHER station ..

  17. christopher Gregory says

    Ever notice how they all use the exact same wording in the exact same phrases. I’ve given up on the main stream news, Hasta la vista, baby, I’ve turned you off. NBC, CBS, ABC, MSN, CNBC and all the rest, to you I say sayonara. Today’s journalists are a mere shadow of the real deal as they sell out their image for lies. It’s all about the $$$$.

    • Constitutionalist says

      christopher Gregory-
      Check out the date on the following quote:

      “There is no such thing, at this date of the world’s history, in America as an independent press. You know it and I know it.
      There is not one of you who dares to write your honest opinions, and if you did, you know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things, and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allowed my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before twenty-four hours my occupation would be gone.
      The business of the journalists is:
      to destroy the truth;
      to lie outright;
      to pervert;
      to vilify;
      to fawn at the feet of mammon, and
      to sell his country and his race for his daily bread.
      You know it and I know it and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks, they pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.”
      — John Swinton(1829-1901) Former Head of Editorial Staff for the New York Times was one of America’s best loved newspapermen. Called by his peers “The Dean of his Profession”, in 1880, at a banquet in his honor.
      Source: Labor’s Untold Story, by Richard O. Boyer and Herbert M. Morais, published by United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America, NY, 1955/1979

      In addition, the F&F often complained about the libelous and usually untrue things published in newspapers. Opinions – like just about anything else – can be bought, and usually are. Check out this quote, too:

      “In March, 1915, the J.P. Morgan interests, the steel, shipbuilding, and powder interests, and their subsidiary organizations, got together 12 men high up in the newspaper world and employed them to select the most influential newspapers in the United States and sufficient number of them to control generally the policy of the daily press. … They found it was only necessary to purchase the control of 25 of the greatest papers. An agreement was reached; the policy of the papers was bought, to be paid for by the month; an editor was furnished for each paper to properly supervise and edit information regarding the questions of preparedness, militarism, financial policies, and other things of national and international nature considered vital to the interests of the purchasers.”
      — Oscar Callaway(1872-1947) U.S. Congressman, TX-D (1911-1917)
      Source: Congressional Record of February 9, 1917, page 2947, as entered by Representative Oscar Callaway of Texas

      In sum, then, if you believe that there was EVER a “golden age” of journalism when reporters were NOT bought and sold, you have been sorely mis-educated. Hell, even the alleged paragon of broadcast virtue, Walter Crankcase, was a member of the Bohemian Club!(if you’re unaware, they perform rituals dedicated to an ancient Babylonian “god,” Molech/Moloch[uncertain of the spelling], which include mock human sacrifice; google will inform your discretion, if interested.)

      Sorry to shatter your illusions, but truth is truth. The good news is that with the internet, more and more truth is escaping … and shining. The bad news is that the MSM is trying to label it “fake news” so it can either be a) censored or b) entirely eliminated. What, you say, there’s a first amendment? “Progressives” have been ignoring the Constitution for decades, if not centuries.

  18. rick says

    As usual- the MAIN STREAM – DRIVE BY – media is onlyinterested in news items that concern the whole country, not just theat area of the US of A that is BURNING DOWN HOMES – BUSINESSES and other MAJOR items. ////////////////////////////////////////

    • Steve says

      Hey Rick…………….
      Have you considered the location of the sanctuary cities. Without actually doing a indepth study on this, they mostly seem to be located in liberal states. Except Texas of course then its the rogue city of Austin that has tank farms for their cool-aid they drink here. Austin is like some sink hole or stinking sewer when it comes to their beloved liberalism. Geeeezee…..and I lived her before liberalism was not cool. 56 years to be exact, and each time I leave my house to go out for whatever, I return with such a sick feeling in my soul. Unbelievable really…….!!!!

      So yes you are correct in saying that the tabloid media is incredibly biased and promote only their agenda and report only on those states that drink cool-aid as well. It’s way past time we “took up arms” in some cases literally, and in most cases…proverbially of course. Even we are just so close to being a third world country, we still not have to look down the barrel of a gun to settle our differences. And for that I am so thankful. Open dialogue should = no use of guns then.

  19. Brad says

    Do people still watch lame stream media? What a sad commentary on the intelligence of your average American….

  20. Christopher S. O'Rourke says

    Typical biased New York City based news media not covering the wildfires in Tennessee & North Carolina at all, the same with the drought that Texas & Oklahoma had. The NYC based media needs to be fair in its news coverage & reporting.

    • RJintheUSA says

      Sorry to say that will never happen with main stream elite news, your better off getting your news from the Internet. American local, state and nation news is a joke, they are nothing more than rumor mills and propaganda rags. The Liberal news;

      Lying
      Insensitive
      Bullying
      Egotistic
      Rude
      Asinine
      Loudmouths

      • Steve says

        RJ….how about “Lame-stream Tabloids”…..on the same rack as Enquirer…..hehe

        Steve in Texas………………

  21. Constitutionalist says

    Well…
    From what i hear, it’s worse than you think.
    There’s a well-funded movement underway to get alt-news sources labeled as “fake news”(even though they report more truth in an hour than CCMSM in a month), then ban them from the internet, permanently, starting with Drudge, then moving on to Alex Jones and Breitbart, among others.

    “Coincidentally,” i received the following citations in my email t’other day:

    “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
    — George Orwell[Eric Arthur Blair] (1903-1950) British author
    Source: Animal Farm, 1945

    “Without deviation, without exception, without any ifs, buts, or whereases, freedom of speech means that you shall not do something to people either for the views they express, or the words they speak or write.”
    — Justice Hugo L. Black(1886-1971) US Supreme Court Justice
    Source: One Man’s Stand For Freedom, 1963

    Any suppression of anyone’s freedom to speak or write what they will – if true – is a crime; those who perpetrate such crime(s) should be punished sufficiently to cause any others who think similarly to hesitate before making a similar error.

  22. Susan Wise says

    I am so sad for the people who have been devastated by the fires in Tn. I am so sorry that our news coverage let so many of you down by not covering what was going on around you. You are all in my thoughts and prayers. I have never been to your area but understand it is beautiful, I can not even imagine what you are going through, i pray you will all come back and rebuild what you want and that God will be in your life and will help you through this very difficult patch.

  24. RONNIE says

    WHO WON THE ELECTION ? I’VE BEEN RECOUNTING THE VOTES UNTIL CLINTON WINS THE WHITE HOUSE . WE JUST DON’T SEEM TO HAVE ENOUGH , I CONTACTED JILL AND SHE TOLD ME TO RECOUNT AGAIN UNTIL CLINTON WINS . FIRE ” WHAT FIRE ” ?

  25. BgravesP says

    Too bad people in the North don’t really know how wonderful our black friends are, we are all on the same page. Being born and raised in the South
    Going to nursing school in the South, working all up and down the East Coast and now living in deep North with my beautiful family of 30, including grands and great grands, sons came here and started own business and you know the difference.? We treat our sun tanned friends like people, and up here they don’t. Yea for our southern heritage and my sun tanned friends. BG. The Southern Yankee

  26. Steve says

    Why bother. We all know that the alphabet (not news) spin organizations are the fake news everyone is talking about. Wolf Blitzer, Maddow, Stephanoplos, makes no different their lable….they are all the same. Hahaha…when and if you ever run across Maddow on her production time, turn the volume off and just watch her for a few seconds. Halarious really..l There is your bobble head. Total fake…..and I feel such offense at even having her to be on my television, that I ear mark that channel number and make sure I not dial that in at all. What an offense to the “thinking” American person. It shows you the level of thinking that MSNBC has stooped to and the amount of cool-aid they have all drank. I am feeling more and more each day that our nation for it to return to the original founding principles that this country needs a clean sweep of all college professors that preach socialism, city councel officials, mayors, congressmen, all of them needs to go to some country that espouses to their belief system. Not the USA. There is no place here for the Ayers types that live here. The Gorge Soros types need to be rounded up and deported or better yet, charge them with aiding and abetting the enemy and for treason. A 30 year to life sentence I would imagine. That’s my rant for the day.

    • Jeanette says

      And let’s find out if the person responsible for allowing George Soros into the US is still alive. He/she HAD to have been bribed, as no one could think he would be an asset to the country.

  27. madmemere says

    Just a quick note – -Dolly Parton was born and raised in Sevier County, Tennessee, either in, or near Gatlinburg and has started a fund to help those families, in the Smokey Mountains, who have lost so much and, in some cases, everything. The fund will provide each family, with a minimum of $1000, per month. Please, offer your prayers and your support for those folks.