Former FEMA Director Blames Blog For His Downfall
Posted on September 27, 2005
We're not making this one up, we swear. Disgraced former FEMA head Michael Brown gave public testimony today in which he informed the nation that his downfall was all because of a blog called HorsesAss.org. You can see the quicktime clip here.
While FEMA was trying to respond to probably the largest natural disaster in the history of this country, a catastrophic disaster that the president has described covering an area the size of Great Britain -- I have heard 90,000 square miles -- unless you have been there and seen it, you don't realize exactly how bad and how big it was -- but in the middle of trying to respond to that, FEMA�s press office became bombarded with requests to respond immediately to false statements about my resume and my background.Brown has now been re-hired at his full salary as a consultant to determine exactly how he mishandled the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina. HorsesAss.org noted today that they've received a huge spike in traffic from the mention from Brown's mention, which is sure to go down as one of the most media-unsaavy pieces of testimony ever.Ironically, it started with an organization called horsesass.org, that on some blog published a false, and, frankly, in my opinion, defamatory statement that the media just continued to repeat over and over. Next, one national magazine not only defamed me, but my alma mater, the Oklahoma City University School of Law, in one sentence alone leveling six false charges.
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But I guess it�s the media's job. But I don't like it. I think it's false. It came at the wrong time. And I think it led potentially to me being pulled out of Louisiana because it made me somewhat ineffective.