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  • Coach's heart-warming move was a good call(ROEPER STANDS BY HIS COMMENT ON BROUSSARD)

    09/27/2005 4:44:40 AM PDT · by Chi-townChief · 30 replies · 2,284+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | September 27, 2005 | RICHARD 'DOPEY' ROEPER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST
    From John Casey of Chicago: "I don't blame you for being taken in by Aaron Broussard, the president of Jefferson Parish. Even Tim Russert was taken in. ... I took the "Meet the Press" piece as pure political theater. ... I had planned on writing you to suggest including this Broussard nonsense in your next book of urban legends." Dozens of readers have chastised me for writing that Broussard's weepy story about his colleague's mother -- who kept calling for help, but was left to die -- was "one of the defining moments" of the hurricane coverage. Broussard was talking...