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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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.
He is. This is the just the "un-named source" twice removed.
Turn it off! Bad acting makes me ill.
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.
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?
Why anyone watches this garbage, I'll never know.
As red as the guy's face is, it looks like he spends most of his time being a leftist crybaby.
I was only listening to him, not watching, and knew this was a 'too cute by half' story.
And he snowed little Timmy.
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.
Maybe he's been hanging out with that redface drunk, FatTed Kennedy.
I'm doing my part to get this fact circulated.
I saw it at least a week or more on FR.
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.
Gee...I guess it's not even who you know.
Tim Russert would never aid and abet a LIE, would he?
/sarcasm
Reagan Man, here's a graphic from another thread.
I thought you micht like it:
Great graphic.
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