*(hat tip: MM)
As if FEMA doesn’t already have the reputation for screwing things up after Katrina… now they fake a press conference about the California fires? Good lord. I thought Michael “doin a heckuva job” Brown was bad enough, now what kind of genius would think this was a good idea? Idiots.
From Reuters:
The U.S. government’s main disaster-response agency apologized on Friday for having its employees pose as reporters in a hastily called news conference on California’s wildfires that no news organizations attended.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, still struggling to restore its image after the bungled handling of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, issued the apology after The Washington Post published details of the Tuesday briefing.
“We can and must do better, and apologize for this error in judgment,” FEMA deputy administrator Harvey Johnson, who conducted the briefing, said in a statement. “Our intent was to provide useful information and be responsive to the many questions we have received.”
No actual reporter attended the news conference in person, agency spokesman Aaron Walker said.
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Why not just give a statement and attempt to address any questions that had been previously raised instead of using fake reporters? Whatever genius thought it’d be a good idea to use fake reporters should be canned, along with anyone and everyone involved. That is NOT the kind of crap we should get from the spokespersons of government agencies.
And they wonder why no one has any faith in them? Sheesh. Heckuva job, asshats.
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