Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False

Source: Politico via Talking Points Memo

Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night -- about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?

Turns out it wasn't actually, you know, true.

In the last few days, first Daily Kos, and then TPMmuckraker, raised serious questions about the story, based in part on the fact that no news reports we could find place Jindal in the affected area at the specific time at issue.
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But now, a Jindal spokeswoman has admitted to Politico that in reality, Jindal overheard Lee talking about the episode to someone else by phone "days later." The spokeswoman said she thought Lee, who died in 2007, was being interviewed about the incident at the time.


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Hmmm.... another Republican lying. Jindal makes a great GOP presidential candidate since he's obviously committed to uphold the time honored GOP tradition of lying even when he doesn't have to lie

how they can be fact checked into a lie. amazing, such delusion.

Jindle Palin ticket yes sir re!

I think you meant 'Palin/Jindal, you betcha!'.
Either way, I can hardly wait.
You go, girl!

SHOCKED, I tell ya!1!

A Republic Party official LYING!!1!


Quick...where's my child-pill!

I'll have to remember that the next time I'm spinning a big yarn.

blame it on the dead man. they have that one down.

This admission was made by a spokesperson not Jindal himself, so it doesn't really count as an admission from Jindal!

And until he comes out and admits he lied the Repukes won't believe it.

Facts contradicting ideology are simply not allowed to exist in Repuke heads.

Just more make believe....!!!!

Edit for typo

They THINK????? You're kidding, right?

because he is a lier!

A Republican would lie? Nah, get out of here...

What??? His name IS Piyash??? Another lie?

This can't be proven so easily, but I bet that even if he goes by Bobby today, when he was a little kid, his dad didn't call him "Bobby".

I know that it is true, because it is wikipedia.

Bobby Jindal, lying sack of Repuglican

It's Greg.

tax evading, loud mouth know-nothin' and proud of it.

Jindal/Palin: "Lie baby lie!" and "Drill baby drill!"

He spent serious time laying out this parable to make his point that government gets in the way of personal initiative. And that story turns out to be a complete fabrication. It follows then that maybe his point is completely wrong...government can be a vehicle for social good.

So, not only does his message get panned for it's Mickey Mouse delivery (seriously, it reminded me of that guy who used to do the Mouseketeer show) but the core message has been totally undercut by Jindel's use of a easily debunked example with the simple checking of the facts. Way to go Bobby! It just reaffirms what we already know - there is no foundation of truth to the Republican political philosophy.

"it reminded me of that guy who used to do the Mouseketeer show" -

Say, is Friday "Anything Can Happen" Day??

"Hi boys and girls...today, I'm going to tell you a story about politicians that can never tell the truth...."

Friday was "Circus Day"

On 9/11, I was 10 miles from home, running to the library, picking up meds, and getting food at Price Cutters (Employee Owned - I love that place).

It was at the library that I heard of what was happening (when you walk into a library and the radio is jacked to full volume and no one is there but the librarian, !??!)- the first tower had just come down.

I drove home totally freaked, repeating again and again, "It's 'Anything Can Happen' Day. It's 'Anything Can Happen' Day."

Strraannge, but true -

Anyway, this Bobby fellow is an idiot, no matter WHAT day it is, apparently!

I can't believe the weekend news dump trick still works, frankly.

like Children's day.... "Now, honey, EVERYDAY is children's day!". Only for repubelickCONS.

(which would appeal to Vitter, who was always on the lookout for new "talent").

* Monday - Fun with Music
* Tuesday - Guest Star
* Wednesday - Anything Can Happen
* Thursday - Circus
* Friday - Talent Round-up

Step right up.
Here's your hat.
What a hat.
Here's your ears.
Reach right out.
Time is here:
You're an honorary Mouseketeer.

Who'da thunk that I'd see you making a Disney reference? Kiss, kiss.

Kiss right back at ya!

and end up needing correcting myself.

Today is a day that is filled with surprises
Nobody knows what's gonna happen...

Thanx for the correction. I needed it.

I always thought there was something wrong with him, but did not know the word "pervert".

Yet big buffoony Roy seemed ok...go figure.

Jindal gave me the same icky feeling... " do not trust anything"

But Bobby reminded me more of Jiminy Cricket - "Hey there, Hi there, Ho there, you're as welcome as can be!"
Mic - Key - M-o-u-s-e

Don't let this guy near Karen and Cubby

which is why it is doomed to fail by design. They've created an elaborate show of smoke and mirrors. They carried on the illusions for 8 years. The results have been nothing short of catastrophic for the country. Yet, they continue to deny truth and reality just as they deny evolution. They deny that which does not fit their ideology. They willfully lie, if anything to continue to prop up their own bankrupt ideology that was never based on reality to begin with.

The party is officially over for this current brand of conservative ideology. They must now go about the process of inventing new false realities that will sell to mainstream America. But they now have a huge problem they never had during the Reagan revolution. They have to contend with the Internet and the instantaneous information world we live in where things like if Jindal was actually with this sheriff at the time he says he was can be easily checked, debunked and the entire world knows it was false within a short period of time.

I often wonder how different things would have been had Clinton been President with the same internet tools/infrastructure that exists today. I doubt that the impeachment would ever have been attempted. OTOH, I also imagine that Republicans rue the day that they helped create the federal laws establishing the medium commercially.

Disney World after the "speech". Maybe he went there to channel Jimmy's vibes and preform an exorcism on Annette

for a job interview

Maybe he can get a spot on Hannah Montana

The American Idol Experience just opened - oh my goodness... what if he attempted to sing! Oh, why didn't I follow them around the park like I was planning on doing for kick! shit! LOL

in Fantasyland!!!!!!

It's just a rehash of the fact that Bush ruined Fema, put a guy in charge who couldn't manage a horse association, and generally ignored the misery of thousands of Americans for about a week. That would have been one of Heckuvajob Brownie's bureaucrats.

As Momma would put it, it's a whole lasagne of Republicon Epic Fail.

No, really...let's see!

and monkeys will fly out of my butt.

Let's not hold your breath waiting to hear it on the air ... we can't spare a single Democratic activist.
All we can say is we know he has passed the required qualifications to run for office. No required NEED but he purposely made space in his speech to lie.

It's truly a real laugh
The best they can do is Jindal and/or Palin?

What will Keith say? I bet he mentions it.

On Wed's show but didn't go into too much detail but he said Bobby wasn't in the area at the time he said he was. And the only guy who could say any different is dead.

he certainly made an ash of himself!

Each time you open your mouth, more and more of your credibility dies. Not that you had much to begin with

I'll give you props for that one!

The future of their party.

Oh wait, Sarah was the future of their party.

Oh wait, The Party of NO (future).

I keep tellin' y'all to go easy on the Goopers! Amongst all those old white men, they only have a few tokens! They're workin' with what they have!

I mean, Michael Steele is African American they put forward--who else they got? Alan Keyes? Kenneth Blackwell? Obviously Steele "They're throwing Oreos at me!" is the best of the three.

And they have to troll Miami for any RW Latinos. You know, children of the Cuban refugees that Carter brought over--much to the screaming of racist Repigs in the 70s. But you notice how Goopers don't wanna go there, because of their stance on immigration--and they know their base can't differentiate between Latinos from Mexico (who're all a bunch of gol-danged Illegals) and Latinos from Cuba.

As for women--hoo boy if Caribou Barbie is the best they can offer my gender, then you know it's pretty well crash and burn time. You gotta feel a little bit sorry for them....

NOT! It's all about shadenfreude, and I'm lovin' every minute of it!

They get to make the same mistakes over and over again until they release the hate, loathing, self-pity, and fear and learn to accept the world for what it is, and not what they can force it into.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

A republican admits to lying

Who can tell the biggest lie...Republicans lying for power and money.

His worst lie is that he claims to care about the people of his state.

Another Xtian unclear on the concept of LYING.

I don't think King Friday and Queen Celeste would approve, however.

this is the way the repukes get away with shit.

The spew out the shit covered lie, it's picked up by the ditto heads as truth. the MSM runs with the moronic story as gospel.

Then and only then, it's found out that is actually total and complete bullshit.

they come out and admit it, but by that point, the news cycle has already moved on to something else and the apology is printed on page 19 of the local rag.

in the mean time, the lie gets legs while the truth gets panned.

Weeee!! this is morons* and pig boys legacy.

"and then sheriff said Congressman Jindal is here and you can come
arrest him too."

And you can bet that strawman will enter the equation.

if yanno what I mean.

H. Clinton was justly pilloried by Democrats for her fucking lies.

However, this gives him a "fail" on both counts.

"A Republican that don't lie, ain't got nothin' to say!"

If it's a republican and it's taklin', it's lyin'...is an excellent rule of thumb, I have ALWAYS found.

points and turn the worm. Will not work. Americans are wise to them.

a story from a dead man.

Oh, this guy is a real prince.

If this is today's most promising Republican, bring it on.

for lying to the Americans of this nation.

Guess we'll see him on next week's Top Ten.

1. He has not exhibited the virtue of truthfulness.
2. He doesn't even have the virtue of being able to lie competently.

1) the perfect simpering face for photoshopping onto the bodies of various TV icons gone by
and
2) the perfect idiotic hubris to keep EarlG's TopTen going strong.

Late Update: Politico's Ben Smith has updated his post with the following:

UPDATE: I'd initially misunderstood Sellers to be saying Jindal and Lee didn't meet while rescue efforts were still underway. In fact, she said, the conversation took place in the aftermath of the storm, but after the boat incident.


This doesn't seem to bear on the key question. As we said, the key elements of Jindal's story were that he was in Lee's office during the crisis itself, and that his support for the sheriff helped ensure the rescue went ahead. Neither of those things was true, it now seems.

had instead invested it in researching how to keep GOP 'rising stars' from going supernova the first time they hit the public stage.


And WELCOME to DU!

is that the repbs and the so called Christians will not mention it but say it was a lie by the so called liberal media. That is the sad part of American conservatism.

it is true that homeland security blocked people from helping and bringing boats in to help people

I think anything that reminds people of Katrina gets connected directly to Bush and his incompetence and lack of concern. I doubt anyone but the most addicted kool-aid drinker thinks of that as a normal operation of government.

Usually Republicans lie to make Democrats look bad.

The nut of the story -- Sheriff Lee's experience with bureaucratic regulations threatening to hamper his rescue efforts -- is apparently not in question. So why did Jindal "first-personize" the story to make it sound like he was there?

(G-man, I am ***not*** carping at you, nor directing my comments to you.)

Politico is Drudge without the stupid hat, without the flashing red light and with a clean suit and a shave.

They are a RIGHT WING PROPAGANDA organization funded solely by right wing extremist money and without any intent to make a profit. Their sole purpose is to fuck the left and push forward the right. Giving them credibility as a news organization and a source for news (the implication of calling it news is that it is unbiased) hurts our side badly.

The link is back to TPM who is reliable. But your point about Politico is not without merit.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was a fabrication as well.

The GOP knows they are the party of old rich white men,
and want us to think they've changed by putting out thinly
disguised tokens to "represent" their party.

One has to wonder if there's a requirement to be a good liar, though.

creepy little man and his silly smiling 'presidential' walk out to give his speech....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwQ5eVvBGwY Matthews reacts!



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Bobby from further serious contention.

Sheesh.


I suppose he just kept hearing that voice on Pirate of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales.....

I never heard a peep out of "Bobby" as I sat glued to WWL's feeds

This is priceless.

Shocked, I tell you.

and he's gonna get a lot more responses back at him.

There has been all this buzz about Jindal, ever since last spring. First, about what a great veep he'd make for McCain, then, what a great Republican candidate he'd make in '12.

This is the first time I've seen him walking and talking, and if it doesn't kill his chances at a national platform, I don't know what will. He was so off-putting, so wooden and condescending, in his speech. As a Latina who has had to endure the onslaught of anti-Latino racism every four or five years for as long as I can remember, I was disgusted to hear a Republican bragging about being an anchor baby. To see confirmation that his key story wasn't even remotely true was the icing on the cake.

After this, only the wingnuttiest of the wingnuts can possibly think he has a chance at the Presidency.

Now if a Democrat did something similar...

nt

...only after he gets caught!

Fighting through all that lib'rul red tape!!


Just another dumb, lying, evil, motherfucking puke piece of shit.

Entirely made up,but still a great story.

The Jindal lie was boomed live to millions in prime time and pounded for hours. The retraction will be a mere whisper in media land seconds.

but republicans tell them all day long

....and those are his good points, IMO!

"I'm sorry if I offended anyone by lying."

Dems should NOT be nice about this and pile it on this lying liar.

Limpballs sure knows how to pick a horse...

I still can't believe how awful his speech was. Not just in delivery, but the stale ideological diarrhea coming out of his mealy mouth. Is that the best they can do? It's OVA for JINNY.

He's the perfect heir to the Republican throne.

Seriously, the earlier he is marginalized the better. I don't want to see him anywhere near the national scene in 2012 with a giant pack of religious yahoos in tow.

Being an American is such an embarrassment these days, though I'm not sure the German passport would have done me much better.

This is no minor difference. Jindal's presence in Lee's office during the crisis itself was a key element of the story's intended appeal, putting him at the center of the action during the maelstrom. Just as important, Jindal implied that his support for the sheriff helped ensure the rescue went ahead. But it turns out Jindal wasn't there at the key moment, and played no role in making the rescue happen.

There's a larger point here, though. The central anecdote of the GOP's prime-time response to President Obama's speech, intended to illustrate the threat of excessive government regulation, turns out to have been made up.

Maybe it's time to rethink the premise.

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/jinda...

What the hell is wrong with the GOP? Seriously.