by Col. W. Patrick Lang (Ret.)
The spin moguls in the administration and their faithless lackeys in corporate offices evidently got busy after Aaron Broussard’s on-the-air denuncuation of the slowness of federal relief efforts in Louisiana.
That was on “Meet the Press” 3 weeks ago. Today Tim Russert told the world that the MSNBC website and “Blogsters” had “investigated” Mr. Broussard’s activities and statements and had decided that he had “gilded the lily” a bit in what he said about “the cavalry” not showing up in time to keep people from dying.
Russert ungraciously played the tape of Broussard weeping over what he sees as the “abandonment” of his people and the unnecessary death of a friend’s mother. He then challenged Broussard to defend himself against these accusations of lying and exaggeration.
I don’t want to think the worst of Russert. Let us assume that he was giving Broussard the chance to defend himself. Let us hope that this is true.
The spinsters should give up on Broussard. He will beat them every time.
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I couldn’t believe it when Russert just stared into the screen as if not paying any attention to what Broussard was saying and tried to point out little inconsistencies in Broussard’s “story” about what happened.
Broussard handed Russert his ass pointing out that he was relaying the message that was given to him by his grieving staffers, pleading to get the story out there.
Instead of pointing out all of the wrong that happened, Russert tried to point fingers at Broussard. And you’re right Broussard will beat them every time.
I don’t want to think the worst of Russert. Let us assume that he was giving Broussard the chance to defend himself. Let us hope that this is true.
I’m not going to assume that. I watched this interview in it’s entirety. Russert tried to shame him as a man and then implied he was a liar. Mr Broussard then proceeded to demonstrate the proper method of dealing with the pandering pundit class when they exceed the bounds of basic decency and, as Mr Broussard made quite clear, he managed this after a month of sleep deprivation and hard work.
One wonders why Mr Broussard isn’t the Governor of Louisiana or the mayor of NO or, if he could bear to lower himself to that level, a well paid pundit. It’s curious to see the places where true leadership shows up when there is such a vast vacuum and effective leadership is greatly needed.
It was a thing of beauty. Broussard put Russturd in his place. calling all Dem reps. Please watch this video over and over again. It will teach you how to answer the spinmasters and not back down from the truth. bravo for broussard. I for one Loved it!!
Mr. Broussard deserves a medal for valor putting Russert and the “bloggers” in their place. Russert thought he’d play “gotcha” with a local “yokel” and instead he got smashed. It was a thing of beauty.
I saw it, Broussard was awesome. He was pissed off too.
As he should be! I would have been mightly pissed to be blindsided by Russert and good on Broussard for not feeling like he should back down. He basically said “bring it on” to Russert and the right wing hacks. I’d pay to see that battle.