Heckuva Job Brownie….Part 2
It’s like a skit out of Mad Magazine.
Tuesday the Federal Emergency Management Agency announced it was holding a news conference to answer reporters’ questions about the federal agency’s emergency response to the Southern California wildfires.
FEMA’s Deputy Administrator Harvey Johnson conducted the event like a regular press briefing, assuring those in attendance that FEMA — the agency that performed so poorly in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina — was responding well to the disaster in Southern California. “The report basically is that were doing a fine, doing a pretty good job,” Johnson told the audience.
The event went smoothly. That is, until the news media discovered that the press conference wasn’t exactly a press conference at all. Unlike most press briefings, this one was missing a key component: members of the press. abc news
They faked it. Entirely. The “questions” directed to Johnson were asked by FEMA staff. The whole event was a staged charade, a fraud, a hoax. Pure fluff.
Remember, this is a branch of President Monkey Boy’s Department of Homeland Security. These are the 
people charged with protecting American citizens within our borders.
In the aftermath of Wilma, I had some very limited dealings with FEMA. It was positively surreal. There were reams of redundant paperwork (that I refused to complete), there were emails and conversations from people who contradicted one another, and there were amazing telephone conversations that had nothing to do with what I wanted to know. I ended up screaming at some asshole to go away, leave me alone, and spend his time helping people who truly needed help, not me.
Turns out that wasn’t his concern. He was paid by the visit. He came out to my house with a camera even though there was nothing to photograph: no damage, no flooding, nothing. I told him that. He came anyway.
So now they stage a fake press conference to sing their own praises and make their fearless leader look competent. Even after their colossal clusterfuck in New Orleans that cost their thumb sucking leader “Heckuva Job” Brownie his job, they’ve learned exactly nothing, and pull this.
What the hell are they playing at?
Everybody feel safer now?
October 29th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
This is just how Gov’t works or is that doesn’t work in BV$HWORLD? It’s intentional. Remember these are a gang of people whose whole modus operandi from day 1 was to prove to America that Gov’t doesn’t work. What better way to make sure it doesn’t work then too make an idiot Preznit and then allow him to put his moronic cronies in charge of the Gov’t in general. Get the picture?
October 29th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Glennk may be on to something. Could people possibly be this stupid and think they could pull this off? Isn’t it more likely that they did it to show how what they’re doing isn’t worth it, and inspire the rest of us to hate government, too?
I know I’m paranoid…..but am I paranoid enough?
October 29th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I wish it were that simple, gentlemen, but it’s worse. This incident showed us just how estranged these people are from the American public, and how much contempt they have for ordinary citizens. Like the reckless stick-up artist at the banker’s window, they grossly miscalculated their ability to get away with something, and didn’t even have a fall-back “plausible denial” story to wiggle free.
The country is in bad shape, and in bad hands.
October 29th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
They faked an entire press conference? Who cooked this one up, Stephen Colbert? How come the whole pack of baboons hasn’t been fired yet, or at least tarred and feathered?
October 30th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Heads will roll for this. Pat Philbin, the External Affairs director, who apparently thought this would be a fun thing to do, got fired. Look for him to become a high-paid PR consultant/lobbyist by the end of the year.
October 30th, 2007 at 10:30 am
who played the part of Mory Alter?
October 30th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Oh yea heads will roll in the mail room where so hapless flunky will be taken out and shot. Shit always rolls downhill in BV$Hworld. the higher ups just keep rising no matter how badly they fuck up. Or they get a book deal or become a Gov’t contractors. Whatever, in BV$Hworld only the employees are at fault never the managers. Hey its just like the Corp. world what a surprise. Where is Madame Defarge when we need her?(sigh)
October 30th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
GlennK: It’s worse than that! I heard they assigned the PR guy to accompany Cheney on his annual hunting trip! (More on this tomorrow — if I can get on-line tonight!)