It was a LIE!

[Blitz]

September 19, 2005
Oops, Never Mind

On Sunday, September 4, Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, La., appeared on NBC's Meet the Press. He broke down as he told the story of a woman stranded in a nursing home who kept calling her son for help, day after day, until she finally died on September 2, ostensibly because the federal reaction to Hurricane Katrina was too slow. Broussard's heart-wrenching story was a major moment in the anti-Bush media frenzy that followed the hurricane.

Only it turns out Broussard's story was untrue. NBC has now issued a correction:

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.
So the patients at St. Rita nursing home died the same day the hurricane struck New Orleans. The purportedly slow federal response had nothing to do with it.

It's a little hard to understand how Broussard got his facts so wrong. He didn't just make a mistake on the date; he told the story in elaborate detail. Only every detail was false:

The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, "Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?" And he said, "Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you.
Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday." And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night.

RUSSERT: Mr. President...

BROUSSARD: Nobody's coming to get us. Nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody's promised. They've had press conferences. I'm sick of the press conferences. For God sakes, shut up and send us somebody.


Here is what really happened:

Rodrigue said he didn?t see or hear Broussard?s comments on Meet the Press. When told of the sequence of phone calls that Broussard described on Meet the Press, Rodrigue said ?No, no, that?s not true.?
?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 didn?t until it was too late.?


This is the nursing home whose owners refused to evacuate, and are now under indictment due to the deaths of 34 patients and staff. The eager retailing of false reports like Broussard's is an important reason why early public opinion polls placed substantial blame for the catastrophe on the administration. Congratulations to the bloggers who were skeptical of this story and ultimately forced the correction.

 

[marine]

*bump* surprised no comments on this.


I sure hope they mention this on Meet the Press this weekend.

 

[Keyser Soze]

What do you expect to hear praise because somebody made up a story. The chicken shit hasn't done anything right since he got re-elected and now people are supposed to clap and cheer because one of the negative stories about him wasn't true. You gotta be kidding me. I'm surprised nobody has commented on how he was doing the happy dance when this thing hit, so he could get his Suprreme Court justice agenda handled while everybody else was paying attention to New Orleans, or while more innocent kids are getting blown up every day in a country that had NOTHING to do with terrorism, or 9/11. Or are you just upset because he had to end the longest vacation ever taken by a President a few days early. At least that way he didn't have to deal with a woman that requested a few minutes of his time to explain why her son was in Iraq to begin with, let alone the fact that he was needlessly killed. And before some blowhard comes in and says that everyone in the armed forces know what they are signing up for, well your wrong. They sign up to protect their country, not to hunt down a guy that "attempted" to kill his daddy. Let alone the National Guard that are over there giving up their lives, when he joined the National Guard to stay out of harms way :cursin: ...........So there you go. Thanks for the bump.

 

[marine]

blah blah blah. Lets not go mixing up what this is really all about.. just like you all cry to separate 9/11 from Iraq... lets keep this focused on what it is about.. Katrina and the exposure of what is really going on and where the fault isn't.

Just once I would like to see people who make up these crazy stories against the Fed Gov't actually held accountable for what they said.


Cindy met with Bush once already... if she gets another meeting with him, then EVERY mother should. Can't have preferential treatment.

 

[fatdaddycool]

and just once I would like to see the Federal Govt. held accountable for their actions. 9/11 and Iraq are seperate..pooh pooh it all you want but they are. No WMD's, a lie, no Bin Laden a lie blah blah blah. I spent my time in the Marine Corps and will still tell you that George W. is a crooked piece of crap that cares only for his rich friends.
I've got news for you Marine...........EVERY mother does deserve and explanation for their childs tragic death in a foreign country for no reason. EVERY mother deserves that.

 

[marine]

yea, and Bush met with every mother once!
He has gone to countless homes and sat down in their living rooms with them!

but you dont see that put in the papers every day because it dont sell papers

 

[fatdaddycool]

if it wasn't in the media then how do you know it happened? Were you with him? If not then you must have read or heard it somewhere so I guess it was in the papers then?

 

[marine]

Its a blurb... a flash in the pan report... yet the original story was replayed time and time again.

 

[JOSHNAUDI]

My wish

When I die...

I want everyone to agree on whose fault is was.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

Heres some more "falsehoods" by a convicted serial liar and promoted by the liberal media without question--
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from political forum---
Heres another example of liberal media false reporting--this was interview of Clinton by lemming Stephanopoulos on monday and reported by lemming NYT below--and taken at face value by lemmings that don't view fair and balanced media and somehow believe Clinton could actually tell the truth.

"PRESIDENT CLINTON: Well, that's what I think. I think this idea--I think it's very important that Americans understand, you know, tax cuts are always popular, but about half of these tax cuts since 2001 have gone to people in my income group, the top 1 percent. I've gotten four tax cuts"

---Really hate to inform you Bill but only people that didn't get tax break is those that paid no taxes--and ( pardon me) but maybe you would like to inform the public how you got to top 1% when never paying taxes on more than $35,000 income in privite sector????

Slick--"They're responsible for this big structural deficit, and they're not going away, the deficits aren't."

Really he doesn't think 911--2 wars and natural disaters played any part. Right Slick we could have continued to look other way as you did and let them try a 3rd time on our soil--and maybe you could elaborate on how "they" were responsible for 911 when it was you that failed to take UBL when offered??

"PRESIDENT CLINTON: Well, I think we did a good job of that. For example, we had the lowest African-American unemployment, the lowest African-American poverty rate ever recorded. We had the highest homeownership, highest business ownership, and we moved 100 times as many people out of poverty in eight years as had been moved out in the previous 12 years"

oh really slick--I thought "the facts proved that this admin has "ALL THE ABOVE" --maybe you missed the poverty reports-home ownership reports or any factual reports what so ever.--in addition are you unaware are just simply can't tell the truth that this admin has spent FAR MORE on entitlement programs for the poor (unfortunatly) then you ever did.

"This is a matter of public policy, and whether it's race-based or not, if you give your tax cuts to the rich and hope everything works out all right, and poverty goes up, and it disproportionately affects black and brown people, that's a consequence of the action made. That's what they did in the eighties; that's what they've done in this decade."

Let me give you some more facts to chew on Billy Bob--despite your admin not having any 911--or war defense budgets and while you benefited from dot.com boom and left office with economy in state of recession at its bust--do you know despite all this that our country will have MORE TAX REVENUE this year than ANY year in your administration WITH theTAX CUTS--how do explain this.--and once again poverty has went down NOT up in this adin--don't think you can spin the definition thing again--up is up and down is down.

fingers are getting tired--here is entire script of "canned"interview--you be the judge-and remember there are those who view these outlets as gospel without ever considering fact finding on their own--
no question why he refuses to be interview by Oreilly or others--he like these liberal outlets that take his word as gospel--with no questions or fact fact check involved.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/18/p...ml?pagewanted=1