Oh good heavens now Michael Brown is saying he made mistakes

[proud2BlibKansan]

because he had no sleep the week Katrina hit. He is on Scarborough and Joe is kissing his ass big time.

Did the idiot stop to think about the VICTIMS of the storm? I wonder how much sleep they got while he was emailing his staff about his cute wardrobe? :grr:

[Maddy McCall]

1. I fucking hate that man.

And anyone who defends him on DU immediately earns my scorn.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. Why can't he admit

he fucked up? The whole damn country knows. But he must believe denial is just a river in Egypt. :eyes:

[blue cat]

2. Did you catch his jealous rant

about Clooney? Me thinks he has a crush on him and is fighting it. That "Hollywood Hate" stuff he was peddling was shameless.

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. Joe is a twit

The only reason I watched him tonight was to see the Michael Brown interview.

[niyad]

5. he "made mistakes because he had no sleep"??? what kind of BS is THAT?

he f***** up completely because he was completely incompetent for the job, completely clueless, and completely uncaring about anything other than his precious wardrobe. I'm disgusted that the audience wasn't booing him all the way through.

[rucky]

6. His hotel in Baton Rouge didn't have memory foam matresses.

Brownie, some advice: Just SHUT UP and let those tapes do the talking

[upi402]

7. WHAT! No memory foam!!!

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
My lordy b'gordy how. did. he. get. by?

[Sgent]

8. Brown was an incompetent

I'm afraid though that people are focusing more on hime than the people who put him there in the first place.

[neoblues]

9. Yeah, but they didn't have to talk on the phone or write emails...

Yessiree, being in charge of a part of a neglected federal organization when they actually have a job to do must be overwhelmingly difficult. Well, sure it is--and that's why they get paid the big bucks. From listening to his interviews and answers to questions, the guy is hopelessly incompetent under the best circumstances. He seems to function on a daily basis like a competent person would after having been deprived of sleep for at least 96 hours (4 days)--just imagine him on only six hours of sleep per day (probably like someone suffering from a total absinence from sleep for 192 hours (8 days)(if someone could do that, they'd probably have alread died from lack of sleep)?)!

No excuse anyway; if the job was more than he could handle, he should have made a serious request for help indicating his critical failings. Seems like the buck was supposed to stop at his desk, but he seemed to think that if he just mentioned the problems in his briefings, reports or emails--that somebody would take care of them. Sarcastic paraphrasing? "Well, I told the White House... of course, I don't really remember exactly who I spoke to, when or what I said--but I'm sure I would have said the situation was... like shocking or something like that... and in the past, whenever I told the White House things were really bad, they would then take care of the problem, but yes, I knew we were under a different arrangement by the time of Katrina in which we were supposed to follow our plans and not rely upon the White House or anyone else... but... but they'd always handled things in the past... and as for those rude, self-important people in our parent organization--the Department of Homeland Defense, if they wanted to know what was happening, all they had to do was tune into our daily videoconferenced reports...". So, now he admits he made mistakes due to sleepiness? Probably admits he forgot to copy so and so on some of his emails (urgent emails by the way).

[niyad]

11. oh dear goddess, PLEASE do not tell me that was an actual transcript

of something he said as justification for his total lack of competence!! SIX hours of sleep per night and he was sleep-deprived??? total BS

[neoblues]

12. While based on an actual transcript, there was no specific

mention of six hours (though it sounded very much like he was indeed getting to bed okay, as in sending emails before going to bed sort of thing) and also represents my interpretations of what he said. It really was rather amazing how vague he was being unable to even identify who at the White House he'd spoken with or whether or not George Bush himself had spoken with him on certain key calls (such as when he supposedly informed the White House that the levees had broken), much less what he actually said. Sounded like people I've known who seem to function on auto-pilot who claim they've done or not done or said things they didn't or did do or say--regularly getting it wrong. Of course, that may be just a really poor memory--worse than I can imagine (such as one might expect of a user of mind-altering drugs), but doesn't explain the adamant claims about what they did or didn't do--when they didn't do as claimed (often based on how they imagine they would have acted (ie. "surely I wouldn't have recklessly run the red light while speeding excessively", surely not? but they're standing there with yet another ticket for doing just that sort of thing). Duh. Nevertheless, to be fair, if the man does suffer from truly severe sleep disturbances, he might well be so incompetent--but he surely shouldn't have allowed himself to hold such a critical position. Of course too, for him to come out so late in the day with any admission of personal error and blaming it on lack of sleep due to the situation, especially when he seemed not to be particularly concerned (even in the midst of the crisis) leaves his remarks even more suspect (not to mention the fact that up to this point he's blamed just about everyone else--as though they had intentionally caused or allowed the situation just to discredit him (which, interestingly, would be absurd--with the caveat that if they guy really is one of those types who's always claiming things were different than they had been, the same sort who would take credit that wasn't his due while seeming to believe he deserved it, it's not really unreasonable to think that nobody would go out of their way to help the guy--though not to the extent they'd let tens of thousands of people suffer terribly to do it). What a character.

[JohnnyRingo]

10. On Fox they introduced him thusly

"Next up, Michael Brown." "We'll ask him if it's true that the President was right all along".

First Whittington appologizes for causing Cheney despair, now Brownie's afraid he let the president he loves down.

He should want to kick ass on this administration that was more than happy to hang him out to dry. I suspect there's a new appointment in the offing for Brown.