AARON BROUSSARD: ...that have worked 24/7. They're burned out, the doctors, the nurses. And I want to give you one last story and I'll shut up and let you tell me whatever you want to tell me. The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, "Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?" And he said, "Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday." And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night.
TIM RUSSERT: Mr. President --
AARON BROUSSARD: Nobody's coming to get us. Nobody's coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody's promised. They've had press conferences. I'm sick of the press conferences. For God sakes, shut up and send us somebody.
TIM RUSSERT: Just take a pause, Mr. President.
AMY GOODMAN: Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard. Speaking on "Meet The Press" yesterday. This is Democracy Now!
Now Mr Broussard says she died Friday night, after suffering for 5 days without any rescue. All the evidence I have seen about St Rita's in St Bernard Parish indicates the people were drowned almost immediately as the parish was flooded very quickly.
In addition, it is quite apparent that parish officials told the owners of the nursing home to evacuate, and they did not. The parish officials (are you listening Mr Broussard?) could have enforced their evacuation orders and sent a sheriff over to make the idiots get their eldery residents out of harms way, but they did not. Instead a tearful Mr Broussard shows up on Meet the Press and blames the federal gov't for not saving this poor woman and her fellow residents, and then lies and says she did not drown till friday. It is amazing to me that the New Orleans crony gov't officials are not being roasted alive by the MSM, and I would start with Mr Broussard.
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the transcript of what he said..........
short answer: probably
Has anyone, ever, since the inception of the show, NOT lied on Meet the Press?
Lying is what they do La.
I'd like to know if he was lying when he made this statement:
http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stories/WWLBLOG04.310f8438.html
10:12: A.M. - Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard: I'm not surprised at what the feds say, they're covering their butts. They're keeping the body counts down because they don't want to horrify the nation. It's worse than Iraq, worse than 9-11. They just don't want to know how many were murdered by bureaucracy.
10:10 A.M. - Broussard: I know what the body count is so far, but I won't horrify the nation.
He claims to have known last week what the body count was. However, last week the official body count could only have been 100-200 (a tragedy but hardly enough to horrify the nation since it was about a usual week-end of road deaths). So what did he mean exactly? Or was he just lying?
I'm not sticking up for these nursing home owners. Maybe they are the heartless bastards everyone is assuming. But where would you evacuate a bunch of nursing home patients to? What if some of them couldn't be transported in a bus, but needed an ambulance? Maybe they thought the people had a better chance of surviving by staying put than putting them on a bus to nowhere.
What happened is appalling. But I don't think this is as simple a situation as everyone is assuming.
Democracy Now and Amy Goodman would make Stalin blush.
For those unaware, on the Dish Sat. there is a gaggle of extreme lefty channels in the 9415 to 9407 range. (the RFDTV Farm channel is lodged in betwixt)
Broadcasting from Dish must be dirt cheap, for most of the lefties have no commercials from any significant sponsors, if any at all. I would think this would be a great entry avenue for a true conservative channel, (hint, hint, Jim Rob) one thing for sure, such a outlet would have many fold the viewers of all the others combined.
Is the Pope German?
I was able to keep my parents out of nursing homes. I nursed them both during their final illnesses and I know the nursing home was in a difficult position. However, if they called me and stated their intention to wait out the storm and I had even the slightest doubt about the wisdom of that decision, then I would have arranged for the evacuation of my loved one myself.
A side note, my sister tells me that all of the patients in a NO mental health clinic/hospital were evacuated to a Memphis clinic/hospital before the storm by TAXIS as the clinic was unable to get buses or ambulances to make the trip. They put patients in the taxis 4 at a time and sent them to Memphis.
I bet many of those nursing home patients needed ambulance transportation and even then for some of them it would have been a lottery.
Just so I understand, where was Mr. Broussard when his mother needed him?
Another Katrina Myth: Aaron Broussard's "Emotional" Appearance on MTP
http://wuzzadem.typepad.com/wuz/2005/09/another_katrina_2.html
Like a lot of people, I didn't think Broussard's story passed the "smell test". We were right: He was lying.
September 7th, New York Times reported on the deaths at St. Rita's:
St. Bernard Parish officials say that 32 of the home's roughly 60 residents died on Aug. 29, more than a week ago.
Why would he lie about such a thing?
Aaron Broussard's crocodile tears came at the tail-end of a tirade against FEMA, in response to a question from Tim Russert asking whether the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Loisiana could have been "more forceful, much more effective and much more organized in evacuating the area."
Was Broussard (a Democrat) trying to score political points (and possibly deflect blame away from local government officials) by blaming federal agencies for failing to respond in a timely manner when people's lives were in danger?
I won't be as kind. At best, I think Aaron Broussard is the political equivalent of a price gouger; taking advantage of a tragedy in order to gain political capital. He may very well be purposely trying to blame someone's death on an innocent party (or parties). Either way, it's despicable.
Is there only one nursing home in the parish? Or did he actually say she was in St. Rita's?
He lied on every point. FEMA was cutting the emergency line not the phone lines...'cause his emergency line was stepping all over FEMA's emergency frequencies. Cutting emergency frequencies is SOP by FEMA when this happens.