Dense…Repeat: Nero Newsom Takes His Wildfire PR Battle To MSNBC Instead Of Providing Real Leadership

Posted • January 15, 2025: California Governor Gavin Newsom is sounding like a broken record. Yet again, he’s blaming everything and anyone for the wildfires - except himself. He continues to view the current crisis as a PR battle. It’s truly bizarre to behold. Tuesday, he did his tired song and dance for MSNBC’s Jen Psaki. -- Nero Newsom blames “disinformation” about LA fires for “dividing a country." - “These wild eyed fantasies that somehow…we have reservoirs - that are at or near historic highs, full, completely full - that somehow there's a magical spigot in, California, in Northern California that just can be turned on. And all of a sudden, there will be rain or water flowing everywhere." - "It's not helpful. It's damaging to the very foundation of the notion of what are facts. What are truths."

"And the fact of that asymmetry that's profound and consequential, amplified by, people like what's being counted, Elon Musk and others. And that one two punch is real. And it's not just about this fire. There are also hurricane force winds of mis- and disinformation that can divide a country, on a myriad of issues." -- Lies, spin, deflection, obfuscation — but never a single ounce of responsibility taken. Again, Newsom continues to think he can talk his way out of the ‘leadership’ hole he has dug himself into. Another few shovelfuls and he’ll have a deep well we can fill with water for the next inevitable wildfire crisis. (…)

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