September 19, 2005
Pants on fire
Aaron Broussard, who broke down on Tim Russert's show during the aftermath of Katrina while telling a story about a man promising his mother day after day that help was coming until she finally died, turns out to have been lying.
Yes, the 92-year old woman did die, but she died on the first day of the tragedy, making those calls, promising that help is on the way, slightly impossible. I'm don't cry very often (ok, I did cry at the finale of Six Feet Under but I never cried over 9/11, no matter how much it broke my heart) but watching Broussard on Russert put a lump in my throat and brought tears to my eyes. I'm sorry to hear he had to embellish this story to tug at heartstrings such as mine. The Katrina disaster was sad enough without the exaggerated numbers and fake stories. I guess one old lady dying on the first day of the hurricane doesn't a sad enough story make. Neither does hundreds of dead, it needs to be thousands to create the appropriate hysteria. I blame the media, who love death, destruction, fear and can't seem to report a story, even about a natural event like a hurricane, without policizing it. And that's the saddest part.
Via Acey.
Posted by Karol at September 19, 2005 04:22 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags: Hurricane+Katrina Katrina Aaron+Broussard Tim+Russert
what? i almost cried at that story too! Lying sack of Laura Bush.
Posted by: Not Dawn Summers at September 19, 2005 04:46 PM
