Mike Brown’s Fudged Resume
Mike Brown’s Fudged Resume
More evidence the White House may not have put a lot of thought into making former Internation Arabian Horse Association commissioner Mike Brown the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency: A new report from Time Magazine shows Brown fudged his resume.
BROWN CLAIM: Worked for the city of Edmond, OK from 1975 to 1978 “overseeing the emergence services division.”
FACT: Brown was actually an assistant to the city manager, says Edmond officials. “The assistant is more like an intern. Department heads did not report to him.” (One former city manager is kinder, allowing, “He was always on time. He always had on a suit and a starched white shirt.)
BROWN CLAIM: Director of the Oklahoma Christian Home nursing facility from 1983 to present.
FACT: The nursing home’s administrator told Time Magazine Brown was “not a person that anyone here is familiar with.”
BROWN CLAIM: “Outstanding Political Science Professor, Central State University”
FACT: According to a director of University Relations at the school, Brown “wasn’t a professor here, he was only a student here.”
(Makes you wonder…don’t they check references in the White House?)
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it's like a slap in the face of every civil servant out there really trying to do a good job and protect this country, don't you think?
September 9th, 2005 at 7:28 amI'm watching it on the news this morning. Amazing! This is blatant lying!
Just this pat year the nation has bore witness to many people being fired for lying on their resume... namely college coaches.
This SHOULD (not holding breath) bring about a quick exit... if the MSM carries the torch!
September 9th, 2005 at 7:32 amWhat Kind of Man Are You, Mr. Brown?
Look, I understand what's going on, Mr. Brown. On the one side you've got a lot of political opponents calling for your head -- perhaps because they really think you've done a miserable job, perhaps as a way to smear the President. And on the other side you've got a wall of solidarity defending you -- perhaps because they really think you've performed well, perhaps because they're trying to protect the President. You're caught in the middle of the largest shitstorm of your life, right? Hell, the press is even taking your resume apart on national television. Pretty soon they'll be holding your underwear up on there as well.
But put all that aside a moment, Mr. Brown. I don't care about your interaction with horses or the shameless manipulation of your C.V. -- hell, who hasn't used a little creativity when selling one's self? I want to know what goes through your mind when you sit alone at night and it's quiet for a few minutes.
Do you think about those people who lay trapped in the dark while the brackish water slowly crept up until there was nowhere left for them to hide? Do you wonder if taking your job more seriously could have saved them? Do you think about the huddled mass of humanity in that big dome panicking and feeding on itself out of desperation? Do you wonder if you had sounded the alarm in advance two police officers may not have taken their own lives?
You're just a man, just a person, just a 'human' as John Lennon would say. You fuck up. And sometimes when you fuck up, people die. And you can't bring those people back. Of all the power and influence you have in this country, that's one trick you don't have in your bag. But you can do something incredibly brave. You can examine your actions. You can hold your own self accountable. And you can shed a tear. You can show some sense of remorse that you were unable to do more.
What kind of man can go through what you have gone through and not shed a single tear? When I have seen the anchormen of Fox News reporting live from the horror show and losing their shit -- and showing that they have a heart in there somewhere -- anything is possible.
Mr. Brown, how can you just stand at the podium of those news conferences and not show your humanity? What kind of man are you? Is this really the legacy you want, to be so incredibly cold and unemotional? So many have died needlessly. It will do no one any good for you to throw your own soul on the scrapheap with the rest of the corpses. Forget the pleated pants and leather belts and manilla folders and all the posture and trappings of your office. Be a man. Show us your human. Breathe.
September 9th, 2005 at 7:33 amWhat do you expect from a Republican. He is a liar and should be fired. I guess they don't check their references.
September 9th, 2005 at 7:57 amCan you imagine the feigned indignaion in the WH? As leaky and f*cked up this government is at the highest levels nothing surprises me any more. Just once, I wish the news media, other than just Dick Gregory, would hold this sorry president and his henchmen accountable for the state of affairs.
September 9th, 2005 at 8:09 am[...] BREAKS DOWN FEMA DIRECTOR MIKE BROWN’S bogus history. [...]
September 9th, 2005 at 8:10 amBlogViews: You Gotta Be F---in' Kidding Me
Think Progress on FEMA head Mike Brown's fudged resume, including his tenure as Queen of England.
* Armchair Generalist finds more proof that some people in fact "anticipated the breach of the levees." Check the National Geographic excerpt to see...
September 9th, 2005 at 8:22 amMany of us in here have known for a LONG time that Republicans don't CARE how well the federal government performs because they want the federeal government GONE. The worse it looks, the more people feel distrust and hopelessness with respect to the government and the more disconnected and apathetic they become. This allows wackos and religeous zealots to flow into the breach...and the ReThugs are only too happy to let those sorts of people THINK they are getting "their way"...
September 9th, 2005 at 8:27 amHe was probably leader of al-Quada before Osama became their power broker. You just never know where those so-called Republicans have been.
Rummy shook Saddam's hand. George Bush is a pilot.
Heck, Mike probably has walked on the moon.
Give him a raise and a new car.
September 9th, 2005 at 9:20 amHe probably had to make up something to cover the nine years he worked for the horse association and was asked to resign for malfeasance. But he needn't have bothered - being a friend of Georgie, you don't need to apply and subject yourself to an interview, the job is yours.
September 9th, 2005 at 9:35 amConsidering that almost all positions within the government require background checks of some type I think we have grounds for investigation and indictment of Bush appointees who have lied on their resumes, such as Brown.
I worked for the DOJ as a contractor and had the same background check and clearance requirement. I had a DOD clearance that allowed me to go into the DOJ department easily but still had to sign off that I was honest and had not lied on my background information.
These guys seem to have lied about alot of things. I think we need to have prosecutors and the FBI investigate these guys, indict, and convict these who have betrayed our trust and caused thousands of deaths.
Maybe the FBI and other investigative agencies of Federal , state, and local government levels needs to stop giving passing grades to the criminals. Maybe it is time for everyone review the apppointees of GOP politicans across the counttry as most seem to criminals and have the habit of commiting crimes.
Maybe we should not limit ourselves to just the GOP appointees. Maybe we really need to investigate our entire government officals as crimes are probably being committed by some Democrats as well.
We have seen too many Americans deaths across the nation these pass 4 or 5 years. It is about time we hold those who govern us accountable for their criminal acts, and crimes of incompetence.
The Gettysburg Address:
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that "all men are created equal"
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it, as a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live. This we may, in all propriety do. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow, this ground -- The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have hallowed it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here; while it can never forget what they did here.
It is rather for us, the living, we here be dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that, from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here, gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve these dead shall not have died in vain; that the nation, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people by the people for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
How the hell can we less for Americans today?
September 9th, 2005 at 9:37 amI've also heard that Brown isn't even properly accredited as a lawyer (despite getting the General Counsel post at FEMA from Allbaugh)... any chance that can be verified?
September 9th, 2005 at 9:40 amSenators have been censured for plagiarism in college.
September 9th, 2005 at 9:40 amCoaches have been fired for padded resume`s.
Civilians in the work place are far more scrutinized than civil service in Bushie's guvment - what a boss! You can fail miserably, and your boss can empathize.
You can lie, and your boss is so compassionate, he gives you an executive position.
This has a familiar ring -- Bush's commanding officers can't recall that he was there for duty either.
September 9th, 2005 at 9:45 amW knew Brown would be able to save a city in trouble when he saw Brown save par on the 9th. What other qualifications could he possibly need?
September 9th, 2005 at 9:47 amLOL.. what's funny is if you go to his Findlaw profile, it's been expunged of all those things. They updated it yesterday.
Go Bushies.. Go.. defend the defensless.
It would be humorous if thousands of lives weren't at stake.
What's also sad is that nobody bothered to check this BEFORE he got his job. MSM... puppets to the powerful.
September 9th, 2005 at 9:50 amThese people are so obvious. They give each other jobs that they aren't qualified for and then cover it up. I tell you, this is just so blatant and hideous that we should call for the resumes of all of W's appointments.
Trolls? Defense of Brown? Anyone? Yoohoo
September 9th, 2005 at 10:09 amNYtime editorial gets it... the difference between Bush's cronyism and Clinton's cronyism is very simple:
Clinton appointed James Lee Witt, the most QUALIFIED crony he could find, with strong experience in Emergency Management.
Bush picked completely UNQUALIFIED cronies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/opinion/09fri1.html
September 9th, 2005 at 10:11 amAnd Jon Stewart said it best: "Usually those who shout "Blame Game" are the ones who really are to blame..."
September 9th, 2005 at 10:13 amTrolls seem to have been very busy last night.
September 9th, 2005 at 10:15 amGive them time to get a cup of coffee and read
today's spin from Rove.
Then they'll be out in force, you know, to help
us poor pathetic souls.
Here is something a huge majority of people of your country dont know.
George W. Bush would not be granted a SECRET/TOP SECRET security clearance by any government agency if he were not POTUS.
His FBI file is longer than both my arms put together.
September 9th, 2005 at 10:19 amTrue enough, afterthought. They have to get their marching orders from their leaders. They, of course, have no thoughts of their own, as they continue to prove on a daily basis.
September 9th, 2005 at 10:31 amOops, can't read my resume? Must be some brown fudge smeared on it.
September 9th, 2005 at 10:31 amI guess he'll be adding this to his resume now:
Saved thousands of hurricane victims with prompt actions in the most organized federal emergency response in America's history.
Should be good enough for a consulting job, no?
September 9th, 2005 at 10:56 amWho needs references when you have political cronies? Obviously they only check references when they need to get out from under you. I'd say what a joke, but there are too many dead bodies to go around.
September 9th, 2005 at 11:15 amWhen's Bush going to give him the Medal of Freedom?
September 9th, 2005 at 11:36 amIf he continues on the same path of lies, his new resume will include God of All Things. His lies are about that extreme.
September 9th, 2005 at 11:51 amThis goof ball brown's job is a political "pay back".
I am curious as to what FAVOR he did the administration. I suspect it has something to do with J.C. Watts, Henry Bellmon, Frank Keeting or perhaps the death of David Walter's son.
J.C. Watts was taking kick backs from SBC while on the corp comm. He was in DEEP DO DO until it all magically fell off and he was their token "man of color"
David Walters was subjected to a horrid slime campaign & when his son had something to offer to stop it, they find him dead & called it a suicide. Those that know the facts don't believe it.
September 9th, 2005 at 11:56 amMike Brown has the only qualification that really matters to George W. Bush: "Brownie" helped deliver Florida for Bush in 2004.
September 9th, 2005 at 12:10 pmWith a CONservative, it's like an alcoholic. It's not whether they did lie, it's when they most recently lie...
NED for instance reprints lies daily that were debunked years ago - and yet he can't be bothered to even do the most basic fact checking that demonstrates this. This is like all of the 'creationists', that still think the world is 8000 years old, even though the fossil forests show hundreds of thousands of years of tree rings. Basic facts NEVER get in the way of a good CONservative lie...
September 9th, 2005 at 2:31 pmConservatives? No! Conservatives believe in conservation which requires advanced thought and planning, and emplacement of conservation policies. And conservation require and assist education in America. Conservationists defend and attempt to assist our natural evironmental resources, rivers, forests, waterways and wildlife, and they spend moneyy to accomplish educational and environmental goals.
George Bush turns out not to be a conservative, but a REACTIONARY! No sound planning, reductions in all programs that benefit the majority of Americans, and yet he duped many into voting for him. Ridiculous, in hindsight -- but many had a feeling that things like failure to move FORWARD would lead to castastrophes, such as the Gulf States are dealing with now.
Reactionaries only try to put out fires after they've occurred, with little advance planning, cooperation, and funding for useful programs.
Look, for example at 9-11. He used 9-11 as an excuse to invade Iraq. He used 9-11 to help Halliburton rake off billions. The Carlisle Corporation is buying up many old defense plants. He used 9-11 to place hundreds of millions of dollars where he wanted them, and did LITTLE to really help out.
Mike Brown should be tried in a Federal Court for fraud, deception, lying, and dare I say, stupidity. Wait, stupidity is not a crime. I imagine that many of the first hours after Katrina passed were spent in allocating funds to their pals, instead of getting all available help to the scenes of need and tragedy.
Shame on you, Mr. President, and goodbye, Mr. Brown. And good riddance!
It gives me great pleasure to see the conservative press falling in line and going after the truth. I would love to see investigation and review of all qualifications for Bush administration employees, and then, Congressional hearings held. And Democrats should be held to similar high standards in the future.
September 9th, 2005 at 2:35 pmOn a lighter note Sandy Berger got a $50,000 slap on the wrist and some community service for stealing classified secret government documents. Some of those documents are still missing. Thank God Bush didn't hire him.
September 9th, 2005 at 4:36 pm"And Democrats should be held to similar high standards in the future.
Comment by Larry"
Oh, I'm sure they will, by the CONSERVATIVE PRESS, all three or four outlets. But they will not by major media. I didn't even need to mention that did I?
September 9th, 2005 at 4:39 pmYouWrongAgain,
And under this administration, the guys who stole bush's military records, or fabricated evidence to go to war will get no time.
As for the press, all the press IS conservatively owned, or did you miss that event over the last 20 years. The only free press is on the internet, a few local news papers (shrinking daily) and PBS (being undermined by right wing storm troopers).
You guys don't want free press, you want propaganda that makes you feel like your creepy sadistic values are normal...
September 9th, 2005 at 5:04 pmAs for the press, all the press IS conservatively owned, or did you miss that event over the last 20 years.
- comment by Whacked
Oh it IS IS it? Murdock and the Moonies own everything? I didn't know that. I'm going to write them a letter and demand they fire the editorial staff of every major daily and hang every Democrat voting (95%) Left Wing Loser reporter they have on staff. What's the name of the conservative I call to complain about the outrageous bias against conservatives on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, BBC and CBC? Oh...wait, I get it now. You think that Inc.= Conservative. You are either mentally deranged or a very bad liar or both. Yep, both.
September 10th, 2005 at 2:57 pmsigh, the same old bull from Comment by I-RIGHT-I - the typical attempt to divert atttention from the main point - it is depressing - stop wimpering about the mean big liberal press - wake up. These Bush bozos are cought yet again in their corruption and incompetence.
September 10th, 2005 at 11:39 pmMurph, despite Brown's lackluster credentials the US government still managed to get on the job in NW two days sooner than they did after 9-11. Whatever. If you've got half a brain you know that getting the Feds to move is like turning a battleship in a bathtub. The only real story here is the monumental failure of the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans to prepare and protect their citizens.
I don't expect balanced reporting on the news that's available on this site but I do expect a least a few of the readers here to have some common sense and common decency. The sense to understand the magnitude of the disaster and what it takes to put a relief effort together for three states and the decency to at least admit that the state and local people failed miserably.
By the way..I was responding to dipshit's inane suggestion that all the major media is OWNED by conservatives. You Lefties really should keep your idiot children locked up. They make you look almost as bad as you really are.
September 11th, 2005 at 12:36 am#39 - Are you saying that the US government did not respond until 11 days after 9/11? That is criminal! We should have held impeachment proceedings in 2002, if not sooner.
September 11th, 2005 at 2:30 am#39, #40 - I just got up to have a snack, I guess that Karl has called it a night. I will also.
September 11th, 2005 at 2:44 am"Are you saying that the US government did not respond until 11 days after 9/11?"
I wouldn't want to steal your thunder Walt. When do you believe the first Federal help arrived? No fair looking it up either. I'd just like your gut answer to the question given everything you've heard. Or..better yet Walt. When do you "feel" the first Federal help arrived in New Orleans? That's really more to the point isn't it? Dumbass.
September 11th, 2005 at 7:47 amIt wasn't until 9/6 that Federal help arrived in NO. Up until that time, they were trying to get in the way. The first Bush photo-op is a prime example of impeding aid to those in need. Also trying to turn back assistance from other nations, and I do not mean Cuba and Venezuela.
September 11th, 2005 at 11:21 am"It wasn’t until 9/6 that Federal help arrived in NO."
comment by - Walt's Feelings
Got a link to that 9.6.05 date Walt?
No?..........
"As of Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the storm had passed over the area, this represented the federal response to date as publicized to the disaster. Here are some highlights: Revised 9/8
FEMA deployed 23 Disaster Medical Assistance Teams from all across the U.S. to staging areas in Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, and Louisiana and is now moving them into impacted areas.
Seven Urban Search and Rescue task forces and two Incident Support Teams have been deployed and propositioned in Shreveport, La., and Jackson, Miss., including teams from Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Maryland, Missouri, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. Three more Urban Search and Rescue teams are in the process of deployment.
FEMA is moving supplies and equipment into the hardest hit areas as quickly as possible, especially water, ice, meals, medical supplies, generators, tents, and tarps.
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) dispatched more than 390 trucks that are beginning to deliver millions of meals ready to eat, millions of liters of water, tarps, millions of pounds of ice, mobile homes, generators, containers of disaster supplies, and forklifts to flood damaged areas. DOT has helicopters and a plane assisting delivery of essential supplies.
The National Guard of the four most heavily impacted states are providing support to civil authorities as well as generator, medical and shelter with approximately 7,500 troops on State Active Duty. The National Guard is augmenting civilian law enforcement capacity; not acting in lieu of it. "
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html#075222
September 11th, 2005 at 12:40 pmThere is a bulletin on the FEMA site that asked first responders not to come to the aid of NOLA:
September 11th, 2005 at 5:42 pmhttp://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18470
I would admit that it went on to say, consult us first and we will coordinate the relief effort. The problem is that all these responders as well as the equipment that they had in place in the region were on hold. There was no coordination! FEMA was trying to put together a mission plan. Sorta like the Gulf War, where troops and supplies were ferried into the area for about a year before it was discovered that we needed to invade. There was no effort by the feds to put anything in place except backdrops for the prez (which were immediately removed). If neighboring and remote state governors had not injected what was left of their NG troops into the situation, the disaster would have paled in comparison to what actually evolved. The Canadians acted faster and had aid on the ground before FEMA and had to plead to the feds for permission to assist.
I JUST AGAIN RE-CHECKED THE FEMA BIO FOR THIS COMPLETE IDIOT
THEY HAVE RE-EDITED THE BIO, COMPLETELY!!!
WELCOME TO 1984
GOD HELP US
September 12th, 2005 at 5:52 amNagin did not tell everyone to leave immediately, because the regional plan called for the suburbs to empty out first, but he did urge residents in particularly low-lying areas to "start moving -- right now, as a matter of fact." He said the Superdome would be open as a shelter of last resort, but essentially he told tourists stranded in the Big Easy that they were out of luck.
"The only thing I can say to them is I hope they have a hotel room, and it's a least on the third floor and up," Nagin said. "Unfortunately, unless they can rent a car to get out of town, which I doubt they can at this point, they're probably in the position of riding the storm out."
In fact, while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a "dead-head" train that evening to move equipment out of the city. It was headed for high ground in Macomb, Miss., and it had room for several hundred passengers. "We offered the city the opportunity to take evacuees out of harm's way," said Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black. "The city declined."
Let's hang Brown for this too.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001529_4.html
September 12th, 2005 at 7:35 am[...] how’d michael brown get his job anyway? he lied on his resume, of course. [...]
October 24th, 2005 at 5:04 pm[...] Of course this wouldn’t be the first Bush appointee to fudge a resume. [...]
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