Honestly, why the fuck does anyone still take this asshole seriously? And where the fuck does he got off criticizing anyone for their handling of a disaster or accusing anyone of politicizing said disaster?
Frankly I’m surprised that even Fox News would give him a forum, seeing as how conservatives essentially tried to make him the fall guy for everything that went wrong during Katrina. But, hey, I guess anything to score a cheap shot against the Obama administration.
If anything else, though, “Arabian Horse” Brownie is walking proof that you can be a massive fuck-up in America and still succeed.
Fuck him.
This is America, where if you have an opinion, you are entitled to spout it. And if a looney Aussie billionaire wants to propagate it, the masses must see and hear it too! Way to go Brownie!
And he may have a point there – kind of like, if Fred Phelps denounces you, you know you’re doing something right. The most reliable newspaper I ever ran into was a supermarket tabloid named Midnight: No matter what, you could always count on them to get the story wrong. And that made them reliable in a quirky way – to know the truth, all you needed to do is read the Midnight story and believe the opposite.
In the same way, Brownie’s castigation should be seen as the highest of praise, his plaudits the nadir of condemnation.
Don’t call him that – most Arabian horse owners still despise him.
The horse-owning community is currently up in arms at FEMA (where Brownie went after he had messed up the Arabian Horse Assn.). After the messup in New Orleans, where many people objected because FEMA ordered them to leave their pets behind when evacuating (people didn’t, or delayed evacuating because of it), FEMA was told to revise their regulations regarding pets.
It took them years to do so, but those regulations are finally being issued. And the regulations specifically exclude horses. According to FEMA, owners are supposed to leave their horses to starve or drown while saving themselves. Maybe that’s what government bureaucrats would do, but horse owners care more about their animals than that!
Are you kidding, he ran the big gummint disaster agency during the third greatest Presidential administration (Reagan -> Washington -> GWB) EVAR.
He’s an expert on this stuff!
The best part is this clown is on Fox peddling this crap. But when Rove is on Fox peddling this crap the host pretty much slaps him down, pointing out that he’s spouting actual lies.
FUN FACT - Brownie lived in Cameron Station in Alexandria when he was fucking up his job. My mom lived there too. Want to guess what the kind of dog Brownie had? Hint - it’s as ironical a choice as it could possibly be.
I don’t think anybody does. I don’t think anybody has since August 2005. Just because a person is on TV, even on a news commentary show, does not mean anyone takes him seriously.
I make a point of not being shocked by this kind of stuff but I admit I was surprised that a useless scumfucking asshole, this poster boy for callous government incompetence, had the temerity to criticize the way anyone else would handle a crisis. People have committed suicide for fucking up at work in ways that were much smaller than anything Michael Brown did, and he’s on Fox News angling for some public speaking or consulting gigs. What a shitbag. On the positive side, his appearance is a reminder that his name is forever going to be associated with failure and the real-life equivalent of “let them eat cake.”
Next time somebody is in the mood to point out how much civilized society was back in the good old days, they can cite as an example: “Back when people were proper gentlemen, Michael Brown would have come back from lunch to find a revolver with one bullet waiting on his desk.”
Obviously, to get a supposedly ‘expert’ opinion that would be critical of the Obama administration response. And that is exactly what he gave them.
Back a couple years ago, during the midst of the Franken-Coleman Senate recount here in Minnesota, they were calling the Democrat who lost the endorsement to Mark Ritchie, who was then elected as Secretary of State and was overseeing the recount. They kept trying to get him to criticize Ritchie, and were quite frustrated when he approved of his actions. None of his approving responses ever got on the air, and eventually they stopped calling him.
That’s the thing though. He’s just some political hack who had friends in high places and got placed into what he thought was going to be a low profile, cakewalk job, but ended up becoming the posterboy for bureaucratic incompetence.
Yet, there he is on Fox News being treated like his opinions on disaster response carry more than a sliver of legitimacy. WTF??!!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
