The French heat wave death toll is up to 15,000, says the country’s largest undertaker, exceeding government estimates of 11,500.
It’s funny. You sure aren’t hearing much about 15,000 people dying in France, but when less than 300 servicemen and women die in Iraq, it’s all over the news. I have trouble reconciling this fact with the media’s so-called concern for human life. Yes, each death in Iraq is tragic and hard, and my prayers and thoughts are with each of their survivors, as well as their comrades still fighting in the desert heat.
My beef is with the media who reports one thing but almost totally ignores another. In theory, the two stories should not be diametrically opposed. Death is death, and if the media were really concerned with human life and the cost of government failures and all the crappy deals the media attributes to our government, then they’d be all over this French story like white on rice.