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Congress held a show trial today in an effort to flog publicly, so to speak, former FEMA directory Mike Brown. To Brown’s credit, he didn’t knuckle under and gave nearly as good as he got.
He indicated that he didn’t send his people into the Superdome as he saw on TV that the place was a war zone. His people are volunteers and not armed. He was not going to risk their safety.
It now turns out the Superdome was NOT a war zone. It was all rumor hyped by the media. This is the same media that complains that bloggers have no checks on what they report. Yet they went ahead and reported rumors and never bothered to see if they were true or not. They also reported that over 10,000 people had died and at one point reported that people had turned to cannibalism.
Why would they act in such an irresponsible manner?
The answer, because it made George Bush look bad. This was their opportunity to show just how inept George Bush was – certainly not the Mayor Nagin or Governor Blanco.
They were wrong, terribly wrong. Their false reporting affected FEMA’s decision and needlessly increase the suffering of those affected.
This is the same media that is doing all they can to make Iraq look like a no win situation.
Posted by The Vorlon at September 27, 2005 9:24 PMI saw some of the reports on Brown also. I thought he handled himself very well.
I liked the way he shot back the answers. These guys were out for blood and he stood his ground. Good for him.
Posted by: Reb Orrell at September 28, 2005 1:16 PM