Tue, 20 Sep 2005 00:34:24
More on Broussard’s performance
At least someone in the media is asking questions.
The chronology of the phone calls described by Broussard came under particular scrutiny by bloggers.
You’re welcome, mainstream media. Lazy fucks.
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 can’t tell you what he said that day, why he was confused, I’m assuming he was under a tremendous amount of pressure,” Rodrigue told MSNBC.
Broussard must have been confused “because I was calling, not my mother calling me, I was calling her,” Rodrigue said. Further, Rodrigue says he never made any calls after Monday, the day he figures his mother died, based on conversations he’s had with another person who had a family member perish inside St. Rita’s. Officials believe that the residents of St. Rita’s died on Monday, Aug. 29, not on Friday, Sept. 2, as Broussard had suggested.
Broussard could not be reached for comment Friday, but Jackie Bauer, a spokeswoman for Broussard who was present during the Meet the Press interview, said “it was a misunderstanding.”
Not good enough. He recounted not just dates but SPECIFIC WORDING IN THE CALLS. Which, as it turns out, he made up. Why? To score political points. He inflamed a nation and it was all bullshit. He’s part of the reason the myth that the feds didn’t respond exists. That tearful video is part of why the lie has legs.
He needs to answer for it. Someone needs to grill Broussard, live on camera, and not take any BS as an answer.
You can see my lengthy post on this topic, which was the first anywhere online, here. John at Wuzzadem was all over this here.
Posted by JimK at 12:34 AM on September 20, 2005
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