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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Dan Rather is working hard to get to the bottom of all this...
Has anyone tested the water in NOLA/LA for drugs?
NBC wasn't fooled.
They knew there were no phones for this woman to call out. They loved the drama and emotion and Bush bashing!
The Pajamadeen strike again.
If by 'news business' you mean swill merchant, then yes, russert at the top of his game.
You saw him TODAY on Spittin' Chrissy Matthews show on MSNBC??? Isn't this thread an MSNBC via Drudge Story??? MSNBC, Matthews EMPLOYER KNOWS he is a LIAR and yet Chrissy doesn't???? MSNBC... The Network of Punks.
I see the title of the article labels it a "misunderstanding".
Nice spin.
Anyone have Tim the Toad's e-mail address?
Politicizing your own mother's death? Outrageous.
"An emotional moment and a misunderstanding
Story of a mothers desperate calls from nursing home skewed"
Not only is it craven but a lie itself:
"..Story of a mothers desperate calls.."
"..Rodrigue said he didnt see or hear Broussards comments on Meet the Press. When told of the sequence of phone calls that Broussard described on Meet the Press, Rodrigue said No, no, thats not true.
I cant tell you what he said that day, why he was confused, Im assuming he was under a tremendous amount of pressure, Rodrigue told MSNBC.
I contacted the nursing home two days before the storm [on Aug. 27th] and again on the 28th of August, Rodrigue said. At the same time I talked to the nursing home I also talked to the emergency manager for St. Bernard Parish, Rodrigue said, to encourage that nursing home to evacuate like they were supposed to and they didnt until it was too late.
Broussard must have been confused because I was calling, not my mother calling me, I was calling her, Rodrigue said. Further, Rodrigue says he never made any calls after Monday, the day he figures his mother died, based on conversations hes had with another person who had a family member perish inside St. Ritas. Officials believe that the residents of St. Ritas died on Monday, Aug. 29, not on Friday, Sept. 2, as Broussard had suggested..."
"Monday they almost found the cash ear-marked for levee funds I've had hidden in my attic for 10 years......wahhhh!"
"Then Tuesday they almost found the 50 boxes of blank ballots for the next election in my closet.....waaahhh!"
"Then Wednesday Homeland Security did a background check and found I was one of 65 previously unknown siblings of Cindy Sheehan's alien commune doper babies....WHHHHAAAA!"
Thanks.
"rethinks" on spreading the lie because the network got caught.
It would be on the NBC Website or MSNBC 's. Maybe we can get lots of messages to him. It would be great to see Rush pick it up on his show and Hannity as well as Laura, this really is a sequel to Dan Blather's Memogate! Tim Bustert really did it this time!
Broussard may have been trying to cover for the Nursing Home owners, with a small parish, probably it was known by the major players that those helpless patients had knowingly been abandoned!He knew full well they had drown as an act of criminal actions. But then just attacking the Administration with known lies is normal for the MSM as well.
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