there was no phone service after katrina blew through town -- cell or land lines. How could Mom call?
The nursing home, St Ritas was visibly under water on Tuesday PM. She was gone, her son knew it, everyone knew it. Brossard knew it.
September 5, 2005
12:10 AM ET. From the Web site of the invaluable New Orleans TV station WWL, from an interview with new folk hero Aaron Broussard, president of hardhit Jefferson Parish. He received wide attention and applause Sunday when he cited the callous federal response to the disaster last week and the drowning of an associate's other. Apparently he has not mellowed today. Here are the latest entries from the newspaper's blog:
--"Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard: 'I'm not surprised at what the feds say, they're covering their butts. They're keeping the body counts down because they don't want to horrify the nation. It's worse than Iraq, worse than 9-11. They just don't want to know how many were murdered by bureaucracy.'
--"Broussard: 'I know what the body count is so far, but I won't horrify the nation.'"
When Wal-Mart sent three trailer trucks loaded with water," the Times reported, "FEMA officials turned them away, [Broussard] said. Agency workers prevented the Coast Guard from delivering 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel, and on Saturday they cut the parish's emergency communications line, leading the sheriff to restore it and post armed guards to protect it from FEMA, Mr. Broussard said." This all turned out to be a lie.
All this lying is about politics.
Aaron Broussard is president of Jefferson Parish.
Gretna is in Jefferson Parish.
Gretna police officers fired shots over the heads of people who tried to leave NO by walking over the bridge to Gretna.
Is it possible he would have had anything to do with that since he is president of the parish? Just asking.
Now, mainstream press, how about this, do you have the guts to tell the TRUTH?
2 comments:
The "mainstream media" HAS informed us that the guy was overstating his case. That's how we all found out. If the blogosphere revealed it first, fine; but, the so-called mainstreamers have done the story.
Of course, it's not as dramatic as the crying....
I don't think the guy was "lying" as much as he was acting on "bad intelligence." (We've heard that one before haven't we?)
Jack,
My beef is with the MSM for first running this raw without thinking.
Second, when they do "Inform" us of the "error" it's on page 26 lower left.
This sob story was in German, Japanese, Chinese and French press, Big Headlines. It ran steady on Al Jazzera.
The MSM complains that GWB is ruining our relationships with the international community from his bad intelligence.
Yet, when they rub our national nose in the poop from bad intelligence where is the redemption?
I don't expect the Arab press to pick up the story but at least the American press should tell the truth about this guy.
I just want to see Wolf Blitzer on CNN show the Sobbing of Aaron Brousard and say, "it was all wrong and we should have known better."
I won't hold my breath.
This isn't 1969 anymore where the MSM can get away with gutting national policy by lying. There are too many eyes and ears watching, waiting and asking the questions I guess we thought these people were paid to ask. Thank God for the Blogosphere.
If enough people like YOU on the left and ME on the right rattle enough cages when the lies come from the left or right we might have a chance at taking back our government from agenda based ideologes in the media and in policy makng positions.
My only hope is that this parish president will soon firmly be esconsed on the rail on which he must be run out of town.
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