Yeah, but he'll still get his Presidential Medal of Freedom ..right?
The man who staged a fake FEMA news conference has lost a chance to be National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell's top public information officer.
Top public information officer! Imagine all the fake news we were in for.
The Feds obviously think we're stupid. I wonder why.
From the Washington Post, October 30:
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency's director of external communications was denied a post as senior spokesman for Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell yesterday, becoming the highest-ranking casualty of a fake news conference staged by FEMA last week to publicize its response to California's devastating wildfires.
"The Federal Emergency Management Agency's director of external communications was denied a post as senior spokesman for Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell yesterday, becoming the highest-ranking casualty of a fake news conference staged by FEMA last week to publicize its response to California's devastating wildfires.
The flap is not the first time FEMA or its parent Department of Homeland Security has been on the wrong end of a public relations move that backfired. Rather, it fits a pattern in which domestic security officials have mismanaged the public presentation of their efforts, whether those efforts are going well or poorly.[..]"
He didn't even say anything about spending more time with his family ...and let's hope the press conference that deals with this issue is real.
Oooh, this is setting a dangerous precedent, what if congresscritters could be fired for dishonesty? Or a President and Vice President?
I think the fact that this happened during his first days on the job, and that he tried pulling this stunt during an emergency, is a telling factor of the kind of hand picked kool-aid fools they hire.
That this guy could be so deceitful AND could get people to play along to stage a phony news conference is amazing.
The irony of it all is that FEMA was generally getting good reviews for its job performance in California. I'll say it again -- this White House can't stop lying even when it's doing good. How stupid, clumsy and self-defeating can they be?
But, maybe the outing of this fake news incident has a silver lining ...because had the new job gone through, this man and his principles would have been in place and undetected.
And this is just the ones who have been caught ..........
I only wish they could fire Bush over all of his fake "town hall" meetings.
