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Former FEMA director offends Hurricane Katrina survivors with Tweet
Published: 2/5/2013 9:21 AM
Last Modified: 2/5/2013 9:26 AM


Michael D. Brown COURTESY/Twitter

Oh no, he didn't say that. Michael D. Brown tweet about the Superdome blackout Sunday has offended Katrina survivors

Brown, former Federal Emergency Management Agency, used Twitter to joke about the 34-minute Super Bowl power blackout Sunday and offended many with his tweet, reports zap2it.com.




Brown was in charge of FEMA when New Orleans was hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, according to the website. More than 1,800 people lost their lives during and after the storm and there was an estimated $81 billion in property damage along the Gulf coast.

During the hurricane, hundreds were stranded inside the New Orleans Superdome with no law enforcement, no working toilets, no electricity, water or food for days because FEMA was reportedly unable to deliver supplies to the site. Television reporters were, however, able to drive to the Superdome to report on the situation.

Brown and FEMA received tremendous backlash for not being prepared to help in the aftermath of the storm and he eventually stepped down as agency head.

Reaction to Brown's comments on Twitter was apparently strong, prompting him to tweet Tuesday:




Brown is the host of a radio talk show in Colorado, according to the website, and, in October, he commented on the Denver Westword blog that he thought New York City's preparations for Hurricane Sandy "were premature."

There were more than 100 deaths reported in the aftermath of the hurricane and an estimated and millions in property damage.

On Twitter, his profile reads: Former Under Secretary, Homeland Security. Host, Michael Brown Show, @630KHOW & @850KOA. Author Deadly Indifference: The Perfect (Political) Storm. Denver, Colorado • http://michaelbrowntoday.com



Reader Comments 6 Total

PrayingHam (last week)


Heckuvajob Brownie!!!!

He should take a page from his former bosses book and stay out of public life.
Like "W", Mr. Brown has made enough of a fool of himself for six lifetimes.

I'm sure his radio program rides the coat tails of Rush Lowball.



                    
fumby (last week)
Amen, brother.
                    
FS (last week)
I'll actually agree with you on that one - Bush was only the court jester and fool - Cheney was the defacto president.
But don't you dare say republicans use phrases with racist undertones.

                    
Tough but Fair (last week)
Why not say it, Moon?

It's absolutely 100% true.
Tough but Fair (last week)
Michael D. "Brownie" Brown is just another far-right-wing, propaganda- mongering, fear-inducing, over-paid, mouthpiece/tool of the rich, old, white, male, owners of the 21st century version of the Republican Party.

He is paid an outrageous amount of money to broadcast what amounts to nothing more than political pablum/mindless rhetoric to the ill-informed, under-educated, basically brain-dead, angry, frustrated, predominantly middle-to-lower class masses of white American males, who continue to loyally refer to themselves as Republicans, too - even though they have no real comprehension of how the modern Republican political game is really being played, with obscure rules which inevitably work directly against all of their own best interests.

These poor folks tune into to these "Republican radio personalities" like the incompetent Brownie and the mentally-disturbed Rush Limbaugh who, with their histrionic, emotional, irrational, angry, rhetorical rants and exaggerations/distortions of facts and reality, all serve to keep their listeners' own personal levels of anger, irrational thought processes, bitterness, hostility, and resentment, elevated to a high fever at all times.

And these poor people continue to tune in, because they naively believe that if they will only hitch their own wagons to all of these Republican 'radio stars' - the only 'political analysts that any of them are able to half-way understand or feel able to relate to - these over-paid, amoral, sold-out, mouthpieces for the American 1%-ers, who now own the Republican Party lock, stock, and barrel - then one day, by some miracle from their personal "god" or through some magical stroke of pure luck, every one of them will become just like these Republican radio idols/over-paid messengers - very rich, relatively famous, but still hopelessly ignorant, bigoted, and fatally backward.

Yup, good old, bigoted, ignorant, irrational, and totally amoral, "You're Doing a Heckuva Job Brownie" surely does represent the very best - and the very worst - of the entire 21st century version of the Republican political party.
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Rita Sherrow grew up with TV. Yes, it was the ever-present “sister” from another techno mother. At first look, it was instant "Like." From then on, the TV had to be on in every room while she studied, elementary school through college. An Air Force brat, she attended school in three states (Oklahoma, Montana and Georgia) and two foreign countries (Germany and Bermuda) and graduated from Broken Arrow High School and the University of Tulsa with a degree in journalism/advertising. She first interned in the advertising world but, when a J-School professor (who also covered politics for the Tulsa World) offered her an internship at the newspaper, she took him up on it. The rest is history. She has served as bridal editor, senior features writer for the women’s section, food editor and is television editor of the Tulsa World. In addition to writing about TV shows and interviewing the stars for “Scene” stories, she also writes a TV column for Weekend and produces the Sunday TV World listings magazine.

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