He wasn't talking about his own mother.

He wants some of that Saint Cindy press.

He wasn't talking about his own mother. He was talking about the mother of the man who was in charge of the Emergency Management in Jefferson Parrish.

Still he lied for political purposes.

BTW--If my mom ever calls you and says "Is somebody coming to get me"?, I'm not going to wait around and hope somebody from D.C. just happens to comes to get her. I'll go get her myself.

I do wish people would stop using the dead to make political points. It's just not right.

I do wish people would stop using the dead to make political points. It's just not right.

I dunno. It's kinda like turning them into zombies, which owns.

That's the funny thing about Democrats. Their saddles only seem to fit on the backs of dead people. What's sadder is that they're riding these poor dead people to political oblivion.

The idiots don't realize the impact modern communications has had on the fine art of successful lying.

They still think its 20 years ago when you could routinely get away with spinning a yarn like this and nobody would question it at all.

Amateur hacks don't cut it anymore.

Good lies are the art of "storytelling" - the weaving of fact and fiction into a believable alternate reality that can't be challenged by any possible hard data in the future. The best lies will be 95% truth too.

I saw Broussard's performance - it was incredible. It's kind of staggering to think he could pull that off while knowing that he was lying about the timeline so he could smack FEMA around.

Uhm, the nursing home in question "St. Rita's" was warned repeatedly to evacuate. The Federal government weather machine is not to blame here.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/D8CJLE9G0.html

The husband-and-wife owners of a nursing home near New Orleans were charged Tuesday with negligent homicide in the deaths of 34 people during the flooding unleashed by Hurricane Katrina.

And this post from Powerline:
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/011661.php

The story of St. Rita's is an appalling one. The bodies of 34 residents and staff were discovered on the premises when the flood waters receded. There have been many prior reports on St. Rita's, for example this one from the Times-Picayune and this one from the New York Times. Astonishingly, the local authorities begged the owners of St. Rita's to evacuate their patients and staff before the hurricane arrived. But the owners declined:

Less than 24 hours before Hurricane Katrina began ravaging St. Bernard Parish with 140 mph winds and a 20-foot storm surge, Coroner Bryan Bertucci made an urgent call to the owner of St. Rita's Nursing Home near Poydras.

"I told her I had two buses and two drivers who could evacuate all 70 of her residents and take them anywhere she wanted to go," he said.

But Mabel Mangano refused the offer. "She told me, 'I have five nurses and a generator, and we're going to stay here,'" Bertucci said.

It turned out to be a tragic decision.

On Wednesday, nine days after the storm had passed, Bertucci watched as a dozen workers from a federal agency that specializes in handling mass casualties began the gruesome task of removing about 30 decomposing bodies from the still-flooded nursing home.

Other nursing homes in the area evacuated without incident and without any loss of life.

My initial reaction to Broussard's statements was "what, did that lady go for a swim?"

The timeline invalidates the annecdote:

Day 1 - Waters rising - "They're Coming, Momma"
Day 2- Waters still rising - 'They're Coming, Momma"
Day 3 - Waters probably not rising - "They're Coming Momma"
Day 4 - Waters not rising, receding a bit - "They're Coming, Momma"
Day 5 - Waters down - "Momma drowned."

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I mean, fuck, this is "Encyclopedia Brown" stuff.

I saw Broussard's performance - it was incredible.

I saw it too. The man can do "sniveling pussy" like nobody's business.

Yeah, its the dems that ride dead people. I don't suppose that BushCo has done that with the dead of 9/11. He turned their deaths into an utter failure of a war in Iraq. The deaths he is responsible for in Iraq are now being used to justify even more death, in their name now, and refuses to admit that it was the total and complete incompetence of his war planner that got us bogged down in that death trap to begin with. He also has parlayed the 9/11 deaths by bamboozling the American people into believing that the he could somehow prevent another attack, after he already miserably failed to prevent9/11 in the first place. I guess its ok to exploit death, or people's fear of becoming dead, as long as you are a republican, and as long as you are the very person responsible for the dead having attained their status.

Yeah, those dems, huh?

> bamboozling the American people into believing that the he could somehow prevent another attack

So, how many have we had in the 50 States since Sept. 11, 2001?

Linux-joe

Tu quoque in aisle 12!

I figured his story was bogus when I heard it, but it doesn't mean that he deliberately lied. He could have been a confused, naturally stupid man with a predisposition to dislike the feds, add on to that he was emotional and exhausted. So he said some stuff that was inaccurate. But that doesn't make him a conscious liar. Everything he put out there should have been promptly fact-checked by the MSM.

How many times do you suppose stories like this used to fall apart and the reporter who pushed it just said "Feh. Nobody'll know. Move along."

Of course, just busting this guy and circle-jerking it around the Web amongst ourselves isn't going to change much. But you'd like to think just one time some reporter would hear one of his stories blowing up and have his puckerhole slam shut so hard he shoots Starbucks out of his nose.

That would require shame, I guess.

Yeah, its the dems that ride dead people. I don't suppose that BushCo has done that with the dead of 9/11. He turned their deaths into an utter failure of a war in Iraq. The deaths he is responsible for in Iraq are now being used to justify even more death, in their name now, and refuses to admit that it was the total and complete incompetence of his war planner that got us bogged down in that death trap to begin with. He also has parlayed the 9/11 deaths by bamboozling the American people into believing that the he could somehow prevent another attack, after he already miserably failed to prevent9/11 in the first place. I guess its ok to exploit death, or people's fear of becoming dead, as long as you are a republican, and as long as you are the very person responsible for the dead having attained their status.

The new talking points not working for you?

Gotta reach back into the archives for the old ones, huh?

Yeah, I hate it when that happens.

How many times do you suppose stories like this used to fall apart and the reporter who pushed it just said "Feh. Nobody'll know. Move along."

This of course is one of the major leftist critiques of the press as well.

This of course is one of the major leftist critiques of the press as well.

So let's join forces and kick some reporter butt!

Bring them Home Now and Bush is to Blame for Hurricane Katrina Tour - Day 30

Everyone is really down right now. We're in Louisiana (or Mississippi - I really can't tell these southern states apart) handing out relief supplies to the victims of George Bush's incompetence. The human suffering we see every day is so bad. Just the other day I saw a man who had lost everything but his laptop computer, which was obviously precious to him.

But that's not why we're down.

We're just lonely. The excitement and energy we felt at Camp Casey is gone. Most of the Crawford Peace House guys stayed in town, and the MoveOn crowd all went to Washington to protest the Bush administration's response to the hurricane. The college kids that are sticking around are too busy surfing the web and playing with the new iPod we requested for hurricane relief work.

Even the media is gone. We have a couple of kids from alternative 'zines with us, but other than that, nothing. Larry King, Oprah, Brian Williams...all fair-weather friends. Literally. Even that cheap Za Za Gabor impersonator Arianna isn’t returning my phone calls or emails anymore. I guess pinky swears just don’t mean as much as they used to.

Just the other day, we pretended to have a flat tire so maybe this caravan of media trucks might pull over and interview us, but they sped by and ignored us. All of those people without houses are somehow, to them, more important than my crusade – my mission to get the president to talk to me and explain why he sent my toddler to die in a Zionist war of aggression against the free…oh, to hell with it. I just don’t have the energy anymore.

Let’s go home. This place sucks.

Every now and then, there's a voice that cuts through the clamor of crisis coverage... and tonight one man's voice is still ringing, loud and clear. On Sunday, America met 56-year-old Jefferson Parish president Aaron Broussard in an extraordinary display of raw emotion on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

And even if some people are still alive in these homes, Broussard fears the toll will be staggering. “I am going to give you a number, that I believe in my heart, that’s probably going to be a real number of the area: I think we have lost over 20,000 people in the greater New Orleans area,” he says. “We have not yet begun to find all of our dead. I am not even looking for my dead right now, I can’t. There are trees that have crushed houses where old people live.”

No one knows for sure. What is for sure is that Aaron Broussard is at the end of his rope. “If I was a gas tank, I’m running on fumes,” he says.

Cripes, that's a journalistic knob job if I ever saw one.

The updated Louisiana death toll was released as Gov. Kathleen Blanco lashed out at the federal government, accusing it of moving too slowly in recovering the bodies. The dead "deserve more respect than they have received," she said.

However, Federal Emergency Management Agency spokesman David Passey said the state asked to take over body recovery last week. "The collection of bodies is not normally a FEMA responsibility," he said.

Umm.. isn't it possible that Rodrigue's mom didn't die the moment the hurricane made landfall on Monday? Or that Broussard confused Saturday -- Monday with Monday -- Friday? Maybe he's not part of a massive conspiracy to embarass Bush, but was rather an exhausted, overworked official thrust on national TV. Just sayin'

I guess pinky swears just don’t mean as much as they used to.

I'm dyin.

"Cavalry's coming" was a talking point being used to excuse local failings well before this guy went on air. (A terrible talking point, because even if FEMA is telling you help will be available, that's obviously no excuse to slack off from local preparedness.) He was speaking from prepared notes. He had skipped over Russert's direct question about local efforts and their shortcomings. He agenda was obviously to deflect criticims and point blame at the Feds.

When I first saw him break into tears I thought his frustration with federal efforts was genuine, though it was clear he was deflecting responsibility.

How low can a guy go.
I suppose it's maybe possible he heard a version of that story and let his bias filter or fill in details, and his outrage was real. But cripes, he had to have embellished what he heard. I wanna kick him hard.

You people are so heartless it boggles the mind.

And you people, Arpil (if that is your real name) are so mindless, it boggles the heart.

TDB -
He may have heard things through an I hate Bush filter.

He hears supplies are turned back by authorities. He fills in FEMA did it. ( It was LA authorities). It fits his world view.

He hears about Rodriquez' mother being found dead, maybe that Rodriguez was calling the nursing home and pestering for a few days and no one was evacuating the St. Rita's folks, and that authorities didn't move in to rescue them.

He figures this must mean FEMA killed her.
I.e., she was calling days after the storm and that it was slow Federal authorities Rodrigues was bitching about --

when in reality she might have been communicating to her son prior to, during or even immediately after the storm, and it was locals who didn't move to get them out.

Personally, I think he's a damn liar.

All the other claims Broussard made should be treated as false until proved true. Did anyone really cut communication lines? What happened with the coast guard's diesel fuel?

You people are so heartless it boggles the mind

and a boggled mind is absolutely f'n' useless.

He could have been a confused, naturally stupid man with a predisposition to dislike the feds, add on to that he was emotional and exhausted. So he said some stuff that was inaccurate. But that doesn't make him a conscious liar.

Oh, so now there's a difference?

But Bush, well, he's a liar. Right? No slack cut there.

Broussard is a damn liar. Oh, he was just tired and emotional? (Brit newspaper-speak for drunk) then maybe he shouldn't have gone on TV without getting his facts straight.

Or maybe he said exactly what he meant to.

The disgusting thing is this douche is a leader , just like the dipsh** that declared the Superdome a tear-down 9 seconds after a hole appeared in the roof.
God, can we give this corrupt pile of swamp shit back to Chirac?
Inhabitants and their sub-zero IQ included.

God, can we give this corrupt pile of swamp shit back to Chirac? Inhabitants and their sub-zero IQ included.

We NEED them - as an example of how fucked up you can truly get under a couple hundred years of corrupt democrats.

Sounds like someone wants to bang Cindy Sheehan now that she's divorced.

Sounds like someone wants to bang Cindy Sheehan now that she's divorced.

She'd be a cheap date - free/food and ice cream paid for by moonbats.

Moonbat chicks are notoriously easy as long as you whisper soothing sexy passages from the Communist Manifesto.

Assholes - this is real shit and you trivialize it like you were playing fantasy fing football.

You should hang your head in shame each time you look into a mirror.