Bobby Jindal's made-up Katrina tale was just standard right-wing MO
By David Neiwert Friday Feb 27, 2009 12:00pm
I don't know why conservatives should be upset that Bobby Jindal's Katrina story told on national television should turn out to have been fake:
Jindal had described being in the office of Sheriff Harry Lee "during Katrina," and hearing him yelling into the phone at a government bureaucrat who was refusing to let him send volunteer boats out to rescue stranded storm victims, because they didn't have the necessary permits. Jindal said he told Lee, "that's ridiculous," prompting Lee to tell the bureaucrat that the rescue effort would go ahead and he or she could arrest both Lee and Jindal.
But now, a Jindal spokeswoman has admitted to Politico that in reality, Jindal overheard Lee talking about the episode to someone else by phone "days later." The spokeswoman said she thought Lee, who died in 2007, was being interviewed about the incident at the time.
Ben Smith at Politico had the "clarification":
A spokeswoman for Bobby Jindal says the Louisiana governor didn't imply that an anecdote about battling bureaucrats during Katrina directly involved the governor or took place during the heat of a fight to release rescue boats.
The spokeswoman, Melissa Sellers, said the story Jindal told in his response to Obama actually took place some days later in Lee's office -- though still in Katrina's chaotic aftermath -- as Lee was "recounting" his frustrations with the bureaucracy to someone else on the telephone.
But really, conservatives can't be too displeased. After all, Jindal was just proving his right-wing street cred. Making stuff up? Man, that's the mark of a truly brazen wingnut -- one worthy of the Rovean Brotherhood.
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This condescending POS. Liar.
"A spokeswoman for Bobby Jindal says the Louisiana governor didn't imply that an anecdote about battling bureaucrats during Katrina directly involved the governor or took place during the heat of a fight to release rescue boats."
He didn't Imply that he was directly involved? Ummm... yeah....
"Jindal said he told Lee, "that's ridiculous," prompting Lee to tell the bureaucrat that the rescue effort would go ahead and he or she could arrest both Lee and Jindal."
Dude. Give up. You've been caught. How can you not imply your there when you say "I told Lee...."
Sheesh.
"You can't believe a word that comes out of our mouths." ~ RNC Chairman Micheal Steele.
HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Bobby Jindal personally swam through hurricane whipped waters of Lake Ponchatrain on the back of a Tiger to save thousands of people about to drown from rising tides of bureaucrats. I heard it at church.
Well Pffffft! Then it's GOTTA be true!
NO bullshit in churches....EVER!
State, where they report the story of Bobby as being in a boat with the Tiger, as portrayed in the movie Waitress, which was the definitive cinematic work on the life of Pies.
about Air Force One making a water landing in downtown New Orleans, just like the one on the Hudson River? I just heard that Bush ordered it down so he could take a closer look at the devastation and all the runways were flooded.
Ah Jesus! Why the hell did he tell it the way he did? I mean, what can you say. The dumb bastard stood before the camera and told about something he experienced that was not true. What was the point of that bull shit?
They come from the land of make shit up.
that voters would find his tale of wide eyed trips to the amazing American world of supermarkets on a par with Washington and the Cherry Tree or Abe's log cabin. Hence the need to also be Admiral Farragut and say "Damn the bureaucrats, full rescue skiffs ahead."
You'd think conservatives would be pissed at the way these people speak to them-- as if they're six year old idiots.
Oh, and I wonder if he was also lying about his exorcism powers too.
Those are real!
You mean you think he really has that power? What I'm asking is when he wrote the paper about his experience, was he just bullshitting about that too. Did he fabricate that story as well?
But wouldn't it be something if he actually did believe that shit?
LOL!
that makes its host tell lies with authority.
But unlikely...most demons I know, wouldn't waste their time with one such as Jindal...they go for the ones that are or will be in positions of REAL power...you know...the cheney's of the world.
because they know Bobby Piyush is protected by a Tiger.
Does his family own a motel/liquor store?
Who as we liberals know is the ancestor of the slave George Washington made to cut down the cherry tree and engage in other horticultural tasks on the way toi the lunch counter and Congress.
deception has been and will continue to be a successful strategy for the "republican" party. they are masters of negative linguistic framing/lying. when a liberal source reveals the truth they will just turn it around and say it's the liberal media lying. it's used to cause confusion and instill self-deception. i say keep up the pressure and reveal jindal(giligan). if there is enough chatter he may get challenged on it.
In his speech didn't he quote the sheriff as saying Jindal's down here and he says you can arrest him too. If he said something along those lines, he just pure and simple made that up out of thin air.
I would listen for myself but when the clips are available in this way it's a real ordeal for me to be able to view them.
He said that the Sheriff told the bureaucrat "Congressman Jindal is here and he says you can arrest him too"
So that would make what he said a . . . . lie?
Well he did say "let me tell you a a story". He didn't say it was real. Let me tell you a story, I was walking with Guilliani and the Fire Chief, watching the twin towers burn, and I turned to Guilliani and said "thank god George Bush is our president", which was the first 9/11 dark humor joke, but do I get credit? No, but that's my "story", now come back tomorrow for more tales of adventure.
you can't find this story on Politico without the link in this story? It's nowhere to be found or referenced on their home page? Is Politico "reporting" it but hiding it so they can say they are non partisan? Oh wait, IOKIYAR. I get it.
Peace!
GOP, fact-free as always!
Many East Indians who live in the Southern United States never lived in India. They are from Uganda and they were put out of there by Idi Amin, which is the reason they started immigrating to the USA. If Jindal's family is from Uganda, he could very well have been born there too and not eligible to run for president.
Only Palin can top Piyush Jindal for political hilarity.
to rescue drowning Americans from bureaucrats during Katrina was not an African tiger. It was a family pet from India. According to the Rush show, DNA tests confirm this.
Amazing. These folks just make shit up...all the time.
I didn't know you wanted a true story. I was going to tell you about me being Little black Sambo and the tiger turning into butter but I didn't think you would believe that at all.
Bobby
I can't wait until those bigots find out about this dude's real name. Lol.
According to Melissa Seller, spokesperson for Bobby (Piyush) Jindal, the story of the Tiger turning to butter was not true.
Because Jindal swam on the Tiger to save Katrina victims, the Governor keeps the Tiger in the Huey P. Long Bedroom of the mansion in Baton Rouge. The Tiger may be interviewed on an exclusive basis by skeptical reporters.
Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where you just made something up and everyone would believe it. Just become a republican.
and politics combine. I hear he had five bags of Doritos and two Dr. Peppers and fed everyone at the governors' conference.
Wow! A miracle!
there would be left over Doritos although they would have to share the Dr. Peppers. No miracles needed.
jindal's ridiculous message: government bad,taxes bad but social bailout(s) are good.
Obey Republican Bush official: drown
Obey Democratic Sheriff: surivive
In keeping with right wing nut cases, I just heard on tv that Joe the Plumber said if he should get elected to congress, he would probably spend most of his time in jail after slapping other members of congress.
He sounds like a real piece of work, doesn't he? I guess maybe I should give him some credit for being honest. They said soon he would reveal his take on the budget. I'll be holding my breath until I hear what he has to say. Not!
confident that when he visits Baton Rouge, the tiger
Bobby Jindal swam upon to rescue victims of Katrina will eat Mr. Plumber. Joe will not be around when Bobby Piyush washes ashore on the Potomac to take power in 2012 and restore our individual freedom to marvel at our well stocked supermartket shelves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgPbjfbcYKs
Jindal reminds me of Gaylord the robotic pup......
How offensive is this to all the people that actually helped out during the disaster or suffered great loss during the disaster?
I think this guy just killed his chances for re-election. I can see his opponent running adds with his fairy tales.
Funny that Bobby didn’t tell the story of BlackWater guards shooting those people he saved in boats when they tried to escape the horror of the 5th Ward that day.
I was having martinis the other night with President Obama.
Okay, I was having a martini, but I don't know if President Obama was having one or not because I wasn't actually with him. So half my story is true. Would I make a good republican?
Presidential, GOP style.
John Amato defended him when he told a fake story about Katrina and tried to backtrack with the "clarification" "An emotional moment and a misunderstanding".
So you can add hypocrisy to the standard left-wing MO.
Apple meet orange... Orange meet apple.
I don't see how someone gets the facts wrong during an emotional moment in the wake of a tramatic event in comparison to being several years removed is the same thing.
But John is right about one thing, there should be more fact-checking by the media. There's a difference between the minute details of a retelling of said event and a meeting that may never have had happened.
So Broussard claimed a woman called her son on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.The son told the woman help would be arriving soon. Broussard claimed the woman died on Friday due to the Federal authorities not sending help.
Turns out the woman died on Monday which makes Broussard story complete BS that could not have happened.
A. so screw Broussard. If he lied, he's an ass. Do you think that somehow excuses Jindal?
B. Broussard was telling a story related to him by his staff. It's possible that he was told incorrect information. Jindal was telling a story that he said he was involved in.
Assuming the emotional turmoil he was in didn't help confuse the facts,this can only mean that entire Democratic Party must justify why Broussard may have lied or else admit that this is the "typical MO" of "hypocritical" Liberals everywhere.Anyway...
In the event that a large and unwieldy bureaucracy causes silly things to happen,must we then assume that all government is bad?Shall we discount the possibility of a well tuned and responsible authority all together?
Looks like the "wingnuts" are now calling you guys on your definition of "during Katrina".
Hey, did you know that Katrina was over the minute the storm passed?
Of course not. Everybody knows that the event we now refer to as "Katrina" was strictly limited to the brief period of time when Louisiana residents could actually reach up and touch the hurricane
"A spokeswoman for Bobby Jindal says the Louisiana governor didn't imply that an anecdote about battling bureaucrats during Katrina directly involved the governor or took place during the heat of a fight to release rescue boats."
He didn't Imply that he was directly involved? Ummm... yeah....
"Jindal said he told Lee, "that's ridiculous," prompting Lee to tell the bureaucrat that the rescue effort would go ahead and he or she could arrest both Lee and Jindal."
Dude. Give up. You've been caught. How can you not imply your there when you say "I told Lee...."
Sheesh.
Thanks! That what I was asking about in my comment at 12:12. I thought he quoted the sheriff and put his own name in the quote.
He's so busted!
Say it ain't so!
jindal was down there shooting at black people to keep them in their own district, right alongside the sherriff.
If he weren't lying, it would be a worse truth.
but that picture makes Jindal look like he should be in a bathroom stall in minneapolis tapping on Larry Craigs foot.
Lately I've seen a lot of them wearing the red and white striped ties. Maybe be a code to help them identify each other.
Be a lying sack of shit...and have no shame about it.
And so is Mike Nifong.
How do you explain that?
I had a friend who lived in NOLA and worked for a Democratic fund raising concerns that was all about wetland preservation. Raised money through bingo gaming. Do you know how easy it is to steal handfuls of cash from an op like that? They did. Very corrupt before Katrina, the cops the gov't down there...Don't know what it's like today.
Sirfith, you're so right. I don't know what I was thinking. It makes perfect sense that because Nifong and Broussard have been questioned about their honesty and competence, Jindal is a great guy.
Jindal was given this speaking gig because he's supposed to be the great new Republican wunderkind. And he goes out and drops this steaming pile.
So what does your bench look like?
maybe he got a name wrong because there were more than thirty of them of the 60+, but he did not lie.
It is somewhat off topic but along the lines of Right Wing talking points. I just had to move my car for about 5 minutes and while sitting there I was listening to sports talk. I don't know who was talking but he was saying that the economy is going to cause MLB, NBA, NFL, and NHL to blow up their unions. He was saying that the money that is being paid to the stars if fine but the lesser players were making way to much because of the union and that was bad for their sports.
What he didn't say was, in for instance MLB the total salary paid to all players represents about 55 - 58 percent of the total revenue. What he didn't say was, just like the shock doctrine the owners were going to use the economy to take more for themselves and not pass any savings on to the ticket buyers.
My point is this guy is going around representing the owners making the case that they must lower the salary of the average players to save the sport and just like most right wing talking points it is false but will be sold to the public and the public will buy it. The public will look at the players as people making huge amounts of money for playing a game and not even consider how much the owners are making.
I love watchin football...but if the owners start pullin slimey shit...
fuck it...
the mlb players union is one of the strongest in the country...as is the nba players union
nfl is not as strong, but comes from a good bargaining position
the one thing that these unions hold over the owners is this...they have yet (but they still could) forced them to open their books to the public
that is what the owners do not want to do
it wouldnt hurt the nba owners as much....but it would kill both the nfl and mlb ownership groups, were the fans and public to see just how much they truly make, and how both leagues bamboozled cities into paying for new stadiums through tax hikes
the players in both the nfl and mlb would have no compunction at all of shutting down their respective seasons...which would kill both sports and cost localities millions
no, there will be no attempt to break the unions
by the way...at least in the mlb, it isnt the union that led to salaries going through the roof, it was the owners forcing the union to accept arbitration over free agency
the race baiting sheriff that actively told his police force to go after black people?
and lee's people DID go after black people!!!!
lie is such an ugly word. think of it more as a bluff. like in poker.
the GOP's poker hand is pretty piss poor--for which they are solely responsible. and, without much of a hand they went for the bluff. and, fuck, what a bluff. they attempted, in bobby's fauxstory, to try to use the katrina disaster, anti-big govt rhetoric, and past govt failures as reasons to support the GOP.
ok, it was just a pathetic lie.
Bobby Piyush Jindal did not mean to imply his story of swimming to the rescue of Katrina victims on the back of a Tiger was meant to imply he personally was present when a French Canadian made up the story of him being named after a French swimming pool.
Perfect examples why the Racist Republicans totally don't get their own bigotry. To prop up these two fools purely because they have brown skin, confirms how culturally dead these folks are. Hey Jim Crow Party, these goofs won't garner you any additional minority votes...period. BTW you lost bastards, Obama didn't win, or isn't successful because he's brown.
CONFEDERATES!!
A spokeswoman for Bobby Jindal says the Louisiana governor didn't imply that an anecdote about battling bureaucrats during Katrina directly involved the governor or took place during the heat of a fight to release rescue boats.
B U L L S H I T .
Those of us who lived through Hurricane Katrina -- we have our doubts.
Let me tell you a story.
During Katrina, I visited Sheriff Harry Lee, a Democrat and a good friend of mine. When I walked into his makeshift office, I'd never seen him so angry. He was yelling into the phone: ...
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/24/sotn.j...
These people brazenly, blatantly, and unapologetically lie about issues large and small with absolutely no compunction or shame. They aren't even good liars, and they make no attempt to make their bizarre statements even sound believable. When confronted with video, audio, or written copies of their remarks (which happens too infrequently), they simply continue to deny they ever said any such thing.
They're totally delusional, but they're driving *me* nuts with frustration.
Bobby Jindal saved 100 white Republican babies with his teeth while battling the ghosts of Civil War era smugglers.
Bobby Jindal stopped the Levies from breaking ten hours early by inserting his magnificent hair into the breech.
Looters could only take Foreign Beer during Hurricane Katrina because Bobby Jindal had saved all the Coors and Budweiser for the Americans!
People were starving in the Superdome so Bobby Jindal told them stories of his childhood - their stomachs were filled with his nostalgia.
he befriended that Tiger which carried him on its back throughout the exploits.
the dream ticket
two people who have no problem allowing easily authenticated lies to leave their lips
the repug party is bankrupt
The title implies that the entire story is false, when really it was just Jindal's part of the narrative that was made up. The entire point of the story (government telling people that they couldn't help others during a disaster) was actually true. I think that is a bit misleading.
But I think it would be much better, if you're going to attack the narrative, to point out that it is really not that stupid for the government to disallow public intervention during a crisis. If there is a fire, the Fire Department can't have random people running into the burning building to save people because then they, themselves, will most likely become victims as well. This is because they lack the TRAINING to be useful during a crisis, not because the government is some malevolent entity. So the government's refusal to allow people in small, unprepared boats get in the way of the rescue effort really isn't dumb at all. It is proper emergency management.
making it an even worse lie. BJ did nothing for the people of NOLa, he was 75 miles away. Then he anecdotes a racist sherriff into a 'screw you, government!' meme which was totally false.
I'd say, "heckuva job, BJ".
shit, I could use one. where's BJ's buddy Larry?
... to Crooks and Liars, Mr. Jindal.
Next we are going to hear about how his water broke and then he flew 6,000 miles back to bum-fuck Louisiana to give birth.
Palin/Jindal 2012!!!!
Hey, I can dream, right?
and the Tiger swam with her until she gave birth. The novel is very specific. Just because everyone else dies and the tiger runs away does not make it any less true.
http://www.gasolinealleyantiques.com/images/A...
Are used to that. we call them Reagan-Tales!
So you're saying that story was stupid, boring AND made up?
Aawww Bobby boy, what a mess...
While most politicians lie, rightwingers take it to a whole new level.
In this modern world, it doesn't matter who you are, it's who they think you are. The GOP lives this way. Throw it out there, make it an "urban myth", and some suckers always believe.
This little fella was sent out to do exactly what he did and because he didn't do a good job of it, the republicans are kicking his ass under the bus.
Him and Michael Steel, who before long will also say something way out of line, and be sent out to pasture.
Any excuse to kill and ruin people who are not white is standard MO for the USA. I wanted to say "New USA", but really... I have seen too much to believe its new. Now it's just institutionalized and overt.
They are letting you know this is White mans land.
Sadly, I think its true. Katrina is a warning to all non-whites about how far they would go to kill. In Iraq, we accept that the USA kills racially, in America the same people are in charge, and you think it won't happen here?
That was "Collective Punishment" just like Gaza is now.
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