LOUISIANA GOVERNOR BOBBY JINDAL LIED ABOUT HIS ROLE DURING KATRINA (1163 hits)
If it looks like a lying liar and talks like a lying liar, odds are, it’s a liar.
Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night — about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?
Turns out it wasn’t actually, you know, true.
But now, a Jindal spokeswoman has admitted to Politico that in reality, Jindal overheard former New Orleans Sherrif Harry Lee talking about the episode to someone else by phone “days later.” The spokeswoman said she thought Lee, who died of leukemia in 2007, was being interviewed about the incident at the time.
This is no minor difference. Jindal’s presence in Lee’s office during the crisis itself was a key element of the story’s intended appeal, putting him at the center of the action during the maelstrom. Just as important, Jindal implied that his support for the sheriff helped ensure the rescue went ahead. But it turns out Jindal wasn’t there at the key moment, and played no role in making the rescue happen.
I hate to only have this tid bit to add, 'desperate people do desperate things' but this and about how the Republican party has turned to using people of color to lynch the Conservative's polital base is all that I can come up with on the Jindal matter.
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
...almost forgot how Jindal was putting down the Bush administration's not being able to help the people in his state was even better for doing a major political goof up. But, the Republicans tend to live in their own world any way therfore I make it a habit not to ever take what they have to say too seriously.
Katrian as a way to show that the state of LA. has recovered??!!? P-L-E-A-S-E...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA
