While watching Governor Jindal deliver the Republican response to President Obama’s Congressional address I found myself asking what planet has this guy been living on?
Then while he was recalling his story about his visit with Sheriff Harry Lee after Katrina I thought, “wouldn’t it be funny if this story turned out to be untrue?” I really didn’t imagine that I would be right.
It seems that Bobby Jindal was nowhere near Jefferson County in the aftermath of Katrina. While by all accounts other than from Rush Limbaugh Jindal gave an awful speech, this just makes it so much worse.
Here is Keith Olbermann’s coverage from tonight’s Countdown.
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“Wow,” I thought when I saw this, “that mf has a tin ear for lying.” But it is to be expected after the correction that follows eight years of living 1984 has driven all the first string propagandists back into the private sector. Used to be we has a steady diet of quality newspeak. Now even that ersatz folksy-ness can not carry a simple tried and true Old West narrative like “breakin’ the laaaw fur good, y’all.”