Quote of the Day

"So now you're looking at this oil slick approaching the Louisiana shore, according to... NOAA and other places. If the winds are right, it will go up the East Coast. This is exactly what they want. Now (Obama) can pander to the environmentalists and say, 'I'm gonna shut it down. It's too dangerous.'"

Michael Brown, disgraced former head of FEMA.

Brown told Fox News host Neil Cavuto that FEMA was in New Orleans the day after the storm hit. On August 29, 2005, Brown sent a request the Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff for 1,000 FEMA employees to be sent to the disaster areas. On August 31, FEMA employees warned Brown's office that the lives of people trapped in the Superdome were at risk. Brown and his press secretary were more concerned where to have lunch.

“He needs much more that (sic) 20 or 30 minutes. We now have traffic to encounter to go to and from a location of his choise (sic), followed by wait service from the restaurant staff, eating, etc. Thank you.”

Brown was such at utter failure that he was forced to resign as head of FEMA.

I watched Brown's interview and wonder at what point does a conservative become so disgraced that he is laughed out of the building. The fact that Cavuto would bring Brown on as an expert on disaster relief shows just how desperate right-wing media is to paint the BP disaster as some secret Obama conspiracy. Brown offers no proof that Obama actually wanted the BP oil spill. His statements have as much credibility as 9-11 Truthers or people waiting for the UFOs to arrive at Area 51.

I seriously wonder why Fox News brings on G. Gordon Liddy, Oliver North and Dick Morris and they are granted a seal of impeccable integrity. No Governor in the United States would hire Brown to manage disaster relief. Liddy and Morris will never get near the White House again. North will never serve in another administration. Yet Fox News holds these men up, as if they are the Gods of Olympus.