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Friday, October 26, 2007

The Player With Yourself Club
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If you’re going to line someone up to lob softballs at you, at least contract it out:

FEMA Workers Play Role of Reporters

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House scolded the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday for staging a phony news conference about assistance to victims of wildfires in southern California.

The agency — much maligned for its sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina over two years ago — arranged to have FEMA employees play the part of independent reporters Tuesday and ask questions of Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the agency’s deputy director.

The questions were predictably soft and gratuitous.

“I’m very happy with FEMA’s response,” Johnson said in reply to one query from an agency employee.

Of course you are. Seriously, WTF is wrong with FEMA? Get your shit together or get out of the way. I’m not blaming Bush for this but whoever made this call should be sacked. Of course, Bush isn’t good at identifying incompetents and dismissing them being one himself.

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