Broussard's national, tearful, bush-bashing perfomance was apparently a complete lie. How incredibly despicable. Equally at fault is the NY Slimes who reports in this article about the fate of those at the St. Rita Nursing Home but fail to mention Broussard's now apparent lies. How could the media not question this? The city employee who lost his momma were apparently the only people in New Orleans with phone service on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and even Friday when I guess her battery died. I am disgusted. Broussard needs to be outed now otherwise his tearful lies will become part of our national memory.
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From the first source I found:
Now, with the Gulf Coast mired in a crisis more typical of the Third World, where is the social contract? "We have been abandoned by our own country," said Aaron Broussard, president of Louisiana's Jefferson Parish. Broussard told the now oft-repeated tale of a city employee's mother trapped inside St. Rita's Nursing Home near New Orleans. She called her son for days, asking if rescuers were 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."