Fox News Worries Over Crumbling Infrastructure After Years Of Hyping Roadblocks To More Investment

[KamaAina]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/05/13/fox-news-worries-over-crumbling-infrastructure/203637

Fox News worried over the country's crumbling infrastructure following an Amtrak derailment, ignoring their own role in cheerleading persistent Republican efforts to obstruct investments in rebuilding infrastructure.

An Amtrak train bound for New York City crashed May 13 in Philadelphia, leaving at least six dead and over a hundred injured. Speed is being investigated as a possible factor in the crash, though an official cause is not yet known.

Speculating on possible causes for the deadly crash, Fox News' Fox & Friends decried the country's crumbling infrastructure. Co-host Steve Doocy asserted that "infrastructure in this country is falling apart," while former New York City mayor and frequent Fox guest Rudy Giuliani added "We do know for sure, whether it is the cause or not, that the infrastructure in this country has not been fixed. It badly needs it," concluding, it's "an investment we have to make."

Yet Fox News itself and other right-wing media have long been champions of cuts to infrastructure spending, suggesting that federal, state, and local funds for infrastructure are being abused or stolen, and dismissing the role of Republican obstruction in rebuilding crumbling infrastructure.

[Gregorian]

1. This might be a good thing.

This might help those typical R/I/L voters identify with Bernie Sander's message.

It's 1989, I'm sitting in a materials engineering class, and the professor pulls out his slide show of pictures he took while the DOT took him around the country to document corrosion in our infrastructure. It was dire. How many years and how many wars have we had since then? Our top priority isn't security, unlike what they all want us to believe.

[Trajan]

2. They have a solution ... privatization .... with one caveat

In typical corporate welfare fashion: taxpayers must foot the bill ....

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Now that the Fast Track has been shoved up the workers butt,

watch the letting of Billions in construction bonds with open bidding to Foreign Firms. Think Port Sell Off to the Mid Eastern Countries.