Hers my email to Meet The Press, the Main Stream Media and several of my friends:
To: Meet The Press, the Media and Friends
For those of you who are out of the country, Aaron Broussard, Jefferson Parish President appeared on Meet The Press with Tim Russert. At the beginning of the interview Mr. Broussard had a loud crying meltdown blaming FEMA for the death of a coworker and friends aged mother in a Parish nursing home. Many feel that Mr. Broussard's antics sealed the fate on how the federal FEMA folks and George Bush was viewed as doing or not doing their job.
With just a little fact checking and common sense it comes to light that Mr. Broussard was not only incorrect but was embellishing and lying about what really happened.
Another point that comes to the front burner was why a parish emergency official like Tom Rodigues did not see that his mother was evacuated when the mandatory evacuation order was first given. Many, including myself feel that Mr. Rodigues and Mr. Broussard were not only irresponsible in their duties as officials but negligent to the point of abetting in the deaths of many of their parish constituents.
I now believe that Mr. Broussard's impassioned breakdown on Meet The Press was more a covering action than a true outburst of emotion about FEMA's lack of action.
I believe that before the Katrina disaster is put to bed the lawyers will sort out who really did what to whom. I think many of these local and state officials will wind up with massive lawsuit's for incompetence and dereliction of duty.
At the least Mr. Russert and Meet The Press own we Americans and his viewers a deep apology for the misinformation.
That was a good email. Thanks for sharing it. There was a lot of blame to go around, but I'm glad so many have stepped forward to help. The volunteers have been great in my state. One thing that people can't say is that people don't care about black people. Those who have said it haven't seen the help.