LOUISIANA GOVERNOR BOBBY JINDAL LIED ABOUT HIS ROLE DURING KATRINA
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.
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.