Stuart Varney: Leave Politics Out Of Boston Marathon Bombing
STUART VARNEY: I've been watching television a lot, the coverage of the bombings. And yesterday, I saw two different press conferences. The first one was by a doctor, who had been amputating that limbs of the victims, and he described in some detail -- horrific detail -- the nails, which the bomber deliberately put into the bomb to shred the limbs of the victims. It was horrific.
The next press conference was Governor Deval Patrick (D-Mass.) and a sea of local politicians and officials. And I thought that was nothing more than a photo-op, that's all it was. A bunch of officials and politicians patting each other on the back for bringing maximum resources to bear. 'I'd like to congratulate my colleagues in this department and that department, bringing maximum resources to bear to get this thing investigated.'
I don't think that a press conference should be a photo-op. It is not an opportunity for politicians to shine, and it should be the deliberate putting out of information so that we know who did it and what's happened. That's what I wanted to see and I did not see it. I'm not happy about that and I know you're not either. (Imus In The Morning, April 17, 2013)
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