Leave it to those stuffy Brits to nail this story on its big ten-gallon fluffy redcoated-stand-the-post-and-don't-blink-when-we-take-pictures-hat thing. This is brilliant.
Not so much with the humour, though, with this (all from the BBC link):
"The very day that this emerged in the press, I was on a video conference with all the officials, including state and local officials. And nobody, none of the state and local officials or anybody else, was talking about a Convention Center," (Michael) Chertoff told CNN.
"It was midday Tuesday that I became aware of the fact that there was no possibility of plugging the gap, and that essentially the lake was going to drain into the city," he said on NBC.
"Anger has been focused on Bush and his administration to a degree unprecedented in his presidency," Washington Post correspondent Dan Balz said. "Senator Mary Landrieu [a Louisiana Democrat] said in an ABC News interview that aired Sunday that she would consider punching the president and others for their response to what happened there. Local officials, some in tears, have angrily accused the administration of callousness and negligence."
Can Sen. Landrieu be Olbermann's running mate?
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Keep in mind that Sen. Landrieu was also the genius politician who started congratulating the government on their "rescue efforts" before getting attacked on the air by Anderson Cooper. Seems Ms. Landrieu just might be trying to save face.
Oh, everyone has been so *helpful* in all this!
Good point, anonymous. Good point.
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