Barack Obama has complained that the loss of a submarine surveying the wreckage of the Titanic received more news coverage than the sinking of a fishing trawler being used to transport illegal aliens from North Africa to Europe. The Democrat complained in Athens that the “minute-to-minute, coverage, all around the world” of the submarine’s disappearance, compared to the migrant boat, was “untenable”.
The Titan, as the OceanGate submersible was called, is now confirmed lost, likely imploded not long after diving, with its five passengers, including woke owner Stockton Rush, a British billionaire, and one of Pakistan’s richest men, all killed. Despite the U.S. Navy believing it had detected the implosion days ago, there was speculation it was merely stuck on the seabed. “Banging noises” detected by sonar fuelled speculation the crew was still alive and awaiting rescue as their oxygen supply ran out, feeding the media frenzy as their theoretical clock ticked down.
The sinking of the migrant boat referenced by Obama, in contrast, was a more open-and-shut affair. The vessel went down in Greek waters en route to Italy with the authorities and nearby vessels all well aware of it. Rescue operations, which retrieved around 100 of its up to 700 passengers, were over and done with relatively quickly, and the cause of the sinking – overcrowding – was never a mystery.
show lessImpressive remarks from @BarackObama today at @SNForg as he courageously draws a parallel between the media's focus on the #TitanicSubmarine and the tragic loss of approximately 700 asylum seekers in a recent shipwreck near #Pylos | #RefugeeWeek #Titanic pic.twitter.com/6cIqqJ8XAk
— Makis Mylonas (@MylonasMakis) June 22, 2023
