FEMA fake ‘journalists’ get promotion.
FEMA fake ‘journalists’ get promotion.
In October, while the California wildfires raged, FEMA staged a notorious “fake” press conference where FEMA employees posed as journalists and lobbed “softball” questions to a FEMA administrator. Today, Al Kamen reports that two of those fake “journalists” have been promoted:
On Oct. 23, the day of FEMA’s now infamous phony news conference, the agency’s former external affairs chief, Pat Philbin, announced plans to promote a number of people in the shop as part of an effort to build a “new FEMA.”
Cindy Taylor, deputy director of public affairs, was to become head of a new Private Sector Office, Philbin said in his e-mail to staff members. And Mike Widomski would move up to replace Taylor as deputy director of public affairs. [...]
They’ve received the promotions they were in line to get.
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Failing upward. It is the Bush way.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:28 amNext will be the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:30 amBusiness as usual for the Bush Administration.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:32 amRepublican Kool-Aid Recipe
-1 tsp Hate
-2 tsp Fear
-1/2 cup Intolerance
Stir ingredients until stir crazy. Sprinkle in copious amounts of outright lies.
Serving size: 1 recipe currently serves 24% of US population.
*Warning: Drinking too much may cause faulty logic, unchecked bravado and eventual blindness to facts. Please consumer in moderate amounts.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:36 amdont trust ANY agency govt related!
November 30th, 2007 at 11:37 amMakes sense.
I wonder if the janitors at the White House get promoted when they refuse to clean the crap on the floor in the men’s room.
http://www.tshirtinsurgency.com
November 30th, 2007 at 11:37 amOf course they were promoted.
Lying = Good
Cover-up = Competence
Fakery = Substance
It’s the stuff of this administration.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:38 amThis is way your party does things, CHL.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:39 amNever before in the history of the Us govt’ have so many failed upward.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:40 amI hate these F@#s sooooo much.
They should all be executed for subverting the government of the United States.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:40 amVerbalkint, how do you think CHL got his job?
November 30th, 2007 at 11:44 amThis has been the Chimperor’s MO since day one : cronyism, nepotism, and elitism.
Is it 1/20/09 yet?
November 30th, 2007 at 11:48 amThis is the plan. Republicans tell us that government can’t do anything right. Then they get into office and prove it.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:52 amFake President promotes fake employees at fake FEMA agency!
-more lies at 11:00
November 30th, 2007 at 11:55 amA new FEMA. Christ, what is it with these idiots? What incredible arrogance drives them to think that creating failure by ignoring the recommendations of expert staffers is sufficient reason to destroy an organization so it will no longer serve its original intent? Are these people raised on drugs?
Republicans need to be driven out of this country. Let’s trade ‘em 2-for-1 to Mexico.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:56 amCorrupting Upward. It’s the Bush way!!
Bush/Cheney
Hague Trials ‘09
Buck Fush
November 30th, 2007 at 11:57 amAs I’ve pointed out before, Cindy Taylor was one of Michael Brown’s totally ineffective team during the Katrina response.
Taylor, in fact, spent time telling Brown he had good makeup and was a “fashion God.”
Read it here – page 17 and 18.
They’re not even trying anymore.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:00 pmThey’re not even trying anymore.
Comment by CitiDC — November 30, 2007 @ 12:00 pm
They don’t need to.
Impeachment is off the table and Leahy is issuing pointless ultimatums. They pretty much have carte blanch to do exactly as they please.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:05 pmI may be willing to give the so-called journalists some slack after they received an appropriate reprimand.
But the obvious assumption is that one can look at who is being promoted to see the shape of the “NEW AND IMPROVED FEMA – takes stains out of clothes with 225% less detergent at a new lower price. buy now now now now now”
November 30th, 2007 at 12:12 pmNew term: Pity Promotion. As in “Sorry guys, when we asked you to pretend to be journalist’s, we had no idea the public would care. Oopsie. My bad.â€
November 30th, 2007 at 12:14 pmtrade 2 to 1?
Hell, I would gladly trade 200-1 and consider that a bargain.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:44 pmI wonder if the janitors at the White House get promoted when they refuse to clean the crap on the floor in the men’s room.
Comment by desaparecido — November 30, 2007 @ 11:37 am
No, no, you don’t understand. If they REFUSE to clean it up, then they’re obstructionist socialist terrorist-sympathizers.
They only get promoted if they try to clean it up but get it on the walls and mirror instead.
It also helps if they blame anyone who complains, because those people obviously want us to lose in Iraq.
November 30th, 2007 at 12:47 pmAnd yet there are those ignorant enough to believe government should be run like a business…
The collective IQ has sunk how low now????????
November 30th, 2007 at 12:55 pm排馬å±é¬¼
November 30th, 2007 at 12:55 pmbabelfish translates that to ‘Anti- horse fart ogre’
November 30th, 2007 at 1:16 pmOnce again, this is proof positive that if you fake something long enough and often enough, eventually you become whatever it is that you are faking. Just look at W and his whole host of incompetents. Fake journalist are really just PR people for a fake administration.
November 30th, 2007 at 2:00 pmOF COURSE HE GETS A PROMOTION… THAT IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE A FACISTS FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
November 30th, 2007 at 4:19 pmMaybe they’ll also get the Presidential Medal of Freedom before Dumbya leaves office–the “honor” Bush has transformed into “dishonor.”
November 30th, 2007 at 6:29 pm