via TPMMuckraker | Talking Points Memo | Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False.
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.
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Jindal had described being in the office of Sheriff Harry Lee “during Katrina,” and hearing him yelling into the phone at a government bureaucrat who was refusing to let him send volunteer boats out to rescue stranded storm victims, because they didn’t have the necessary permits. Jindal said he told Lee, “that’s ridiculous,” prompting Lee to tell the bureaucrat that the rescue effort would go ahead and he or she could arrest both Lee and Jindal.
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.
I watched the rebuttal. Sitting on the sofa with my wife I exclaimed out loud that “That’s a lie! He’s lying!”
I can tell when someone is lying and when he told that tale I knew it was too tall to be true. His chin dropped, his eyes went wide and he smirked all the way through the story. His face gave him away. He could never play poker.
There’s not much else on this story except he’s not the first prominent Republican to stand up to the world and tell a whopper. At least nobody is going to die over this one. I’m including the video from TPMMuckraker. It should go viral:
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