... about giving FEMA the benefit of the doubt. I hadn't realized that Tuesday's "news conference," at which Deputy Administrator Harvey Johnson talked about lessons learned from Katrina being applied to the wildfire response, was held with FEMA staffers pretending to be reporters, since none of the real reporters could make the briefing that was held with only 15 minutes prior notice.
Is it sympathy for the devil to just feel sorry for these guys?
I mean, the guy in that photo is no Dana Perino. Poor dude; he obviously never got fashion advice from Naomi Wolf on how to pick a power suit. Maybe he should just stay out the press conference business, especially the deciding-whether-to-hold-one-even-if-no-one's-there part.
Paulison spoke confidently of the response itself in an interview with NPR.
As long as they do their job, I guess that's what counts. But then I'm only a blogger with a snarky (and sometimes overly generous) opinion. Hell hath no fury like a press corps implied to be irrelevant. We're going to be hearing about this one for awhile.
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