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NBC RETHINKS TIMELINE IN POL'S TV BREAKDOWN...
MSNBC via Drudge ^ | Sep 19, 2005 | MSNBC and NBC News

Posted on 09/19/2005 3:03:21 PM PDT by blogblogginaway

WASHINGTON - The Jefferson Parish president's emotional retelling of a mother's desperate calls from a New Orleans nursing home included details that conflict with the timeline of the tragedy.

The story, of a colleague's mother begging her son for rescue as flood waters rose after Hurricane Katrina, came to prominence on Sunday, Sept. 4, when Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans, was interviewed by Tim Russert on NBC's Meet the Press. (MSNBC is a Microsoft-NBC joint venture.)

New details and interviews with the son whose mother died in the flood show that the tragedy unfolded from Saturday through Monday, Aug. 29 — not Monday through Friday, Sept. 2 as recounted by Broussard. The owners of the nursing home were indicted Tuesday for the deaths of more than 30 residents, which officials say occurred on Aug. 29.

In the course of the interview, in which Broussard was expressing frustration with the slow-footed response by the federal government to the hurricane, he related the personal story of a man whose mother had died in the flooding caused by Katrina. Broussard, who did not identify the man by name at the time, broke down in tears as he related the story. As the Meet the Press transcript shows, Russert paused the interview to allow Broussard to compose himself.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: broussard; corruption; demlies; demorats; elderly; katrina; liar; mtp; nbcnews; russert; traitor
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To: jw777

Whinning liberals. I do not recall these "short sited" mistake occuring in Mississippi. And with the new storm in The Key's I doubt everyone will wait for Daddy Warbucks to tell them when to leave.

And now we will reward everyone, including the political THUGS, with $$$. Open up your wallet and bend over. BOHIKA.


21 posted on 09/19/2005 3:22:36 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: RJL
Good Theatre, and I thought Russert was in the news business.

He is. This is the just the "un-named source" twice removed.

22 posted on 09/19/2005 3:23:12 PM PDT by FreePaul
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To: Reagan Man

Turn it off! Bad acting makes me ill.


23 posted on 09/19/2005 3:23:35 PM PDT by gathersnomoss
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To: Republican Red

Hopefully, at some point, Fox News will run the original story and correct it just so make certain it doesn't get swept under the rug. You can bet none of the other news networks will try to correct it.


24 posted on 09/19/2005 3:23:41 PM PDT by onevoter
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To: blogblogginaway

Does Russert do ANY basic research before having a guest? Only if they're Republicans, I guess.

PS - isn't Broussard the guy under indictment for something?


25 posted on 09/19/2005 3:24:07 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: blogblogginaway
I guess NBC wasn't terribly interested in facts, seeing how they were in the middle of another idiotic and hysterical anti-Bush lather.

Why anyone watches this garbage, I'll never know.

26 posted on 09/19/2005 3:25:21 PM PDT by Reactionary
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To: Reagan Man

As red as the guy's face is, it looks like he spends most of his time being a leftist crybaby.


27 posted on 09/19/2005 3:28:50 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Liberalism is a form of insanity)
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To: RJL
Good Theatre, and I thought Russert was in the news business.

The major networks got out of the news business the moment they began allowing their nightly broadcasts to be measured by the Nielsen surveys.

They've been on a collision course with the supermarket tabloids ever since.
28 posted on 09/19/2005 3:29:06 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: RJL

I was only listening to him, not watching, and knew this was a 'too cute by half' story.
And he snowed little Timmy.


29 posted on 09/19/2005 3:30:46 PM PDT by meema
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To: onevoter

Male text reader on Fox let Leon Paneta get away with how great FEMA was under the Klintoon. He could have countered in an instant by asking about the 1,000 poor and mostly Blacks that Clinton, Dewitt and Mayor Daley let die in the July. 1995 Chicago heat wave. Then let the bodies go unclaimed, stuffed them into pine boxes and buried in mass graves.

MSM, left and right all march to the same tune, follow the bleating and blathering alphabets and LA/NY Slimes leads.


30 posted on 09/19/2005 3:31:07 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Maybe he's been hanging out with that redface drunk, FatTed Kennedy.


31 posted on 09/19/2005 3:32:25 PM PDT by Reagan Man (Secure the borders;punish employers who hire illegals;halt all welfare handouts to illegals.)
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To: Ursus arctos horribilis
More poor people died in Chicago's Heat Wave of 1995 than died in all of Louisiana as a result of Hurricane Katrina.

I'm doing my part to get this fact circulated.

32 posted on 09/19/2005 3:38:48 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: blogblogginaway
Do you remember who broke this story?

I saw it at least a week or more on FR.

33 posted on 09/19/2005 3:40:10 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: blogblogginaway

Russert should publically apologize,he had to know this was a total fraud before the interview and using the title " Mr. President" was a blatant misleading and intentional attempt to mislead the audience.Russert should have known this Liar was under indictment, that ther was no telephone service in those days. This should be Russert's Memogate, blatant lies in the eye of a National Emergency to damage Our President and Our National Image in the World.


34 posted on 09/19/2005 3:44:07 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot
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To: RJL
Yeah...it's mystery theater.
35 posted on 09/19/2005 3:46:18 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Why does John McCain always look like a mule eating cockleburs?)
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To: blogblogginaway
Subsequent reporting identified the man whom Broussard was referring to in the Meet the Press interview as Thomas Rodrigue, the Jefferson Parish emergency services director.

Gee...I guess it's not even who you know.

36 posted on 09/19/2005 3:48:52 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: blogblogginaway

Tim Russert would never aid and abet a LIE, would he?

/sarcasm


37 posted on 09/19/2005 3:49:10 PM PDT by No Longer Free State (Saddam Hussein harbored and paid terrorists. Any questions?)
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To: Reagan Man
Crocodile tears .

Reagan Man, here's a graphic from another thread.

I thought you micht like it:


38 posted on 09/19/2005 3:50:16 PM PDT by GaltMeister (“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”)
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To: GaltMeister
There's no crying in politics! LOL

Great graphic.

39 posted on 09/19/2005 3:55:48 PM PDT by Reagan Man (Secure the borders;punish employers who hire illegals;halt all welfare handouts to illegals.)
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To: RJL
I thought Russert was in the news business.

He never fooled me.

And, it all depends upon what the meaning of "news" is.
40 posted on 09/19/2005 4:06:14 PM PDT by adorno
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