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CNN has certainly latched on to the statements made by Chertoff and Brown as a cudgel to bash the administration with.

There is certainly room for reasonable people to disagree on how the vital the PR end of things is, and if making bonehead statements merits dismissal.

If the response of the feds is shown to be as timely as I think it will be, perhaps the PR blunders may be forgiven, but they certainly need to be learned from.

Who says that opinions can't be changed on FR? I freely admit that my first reaction after reading some of Brown's statements was that he should be let go, but after digesting what has been posted here I'm not so sure. I still think he needs to be sent to Public Relations 101 at the least. I know that if there was an equally qualified person who was less prone to foot in mouth syndrome, I would prefer that they have the job.

Personally, I can forgive someone under stress in a high-pressure situation to make a few "PR" speaking errors. They are not movie stars. And really, I even don't see a huge deal in the very few stumbles he made. They are extremely trivial, to my mind.

It's what they guy does that counts. And if he's hamstrung because the locals won't give him authority, he may not be able to do as much as he wants.

Malkin is whipping up a hurricane (no pun intended) where there should only be a tiny dust cloud.