Why are news outlets giving him air time?

Please, Ms. Martel. He was in charge of FEMA in the previous Administration when the country faced probably the largest natural disaster in our history. He has some background on how the government responds to emergencies.

Yes, he was an absolute man-made disaster himself, so to speak. But I can see why they’d have him on. He is as qualified to discuss this matter as Bill Maher is to discuss energy policy or Michael Moore to discuss healthcare policy or Ann Coulter to discuss just about anything.

This makes more sense then Mediaite covering that absurd National Enquirer story on Obama’s affair.

The right is trying hard to try to call this “Obama’s Katrina” but ending up looking foolish in the process. They seem not to realize that the moment their ideas escape the fantasy land of FOX and talk radio, they are widely recognized as nonsensical crazy talk. The fact that they would throw “Browine” out there reveals how just how unaware they are that most Americans have both a memory and the ability to recognize partisan BS from a mile away.

On second thought (and seeing the interview), Frances was right: Brown has no business opining on this. Really, he adds nothing to the story.

The fact that they would throw “Browine” out there reveals how just how unaware they are that most Americans have both a memory and the ability to recognize partisan BS from a mile away.

Sorry, how is the “right” throwing Brown out there? I assume that Fox and MSNBC (he was just on Matthews) invited him on the show. He was invited, he came on.

As Frances points out, why did they ask him on? He really offers nothing.

One more: Brown’s conspiracy nonsense is totally undermined by the fact that this Administration, from the accounts I’ve read, is in a full-blown panic about charges that they responded too late to the oil leak/disaster.

If this Administration deliberately allowed the problem to get worse, why are they now so defensive? It doesn’t add up.

This is nonsense and Brown shouldn’t be on television.

Heckuva job, brownie.

Brown was given time originally on FOX to give his analysis on the oil spill. It’s probably safe to say that FOX assumed Brown would take an anti-Obama perspective when they threw him on the air. That, in my view, is why he was invited on.

It seems to me that Matthews had Brown on to refute what he had said on FOX and because Gibbs made a big issue of it. Matthews sort of fell into the trap of repeating and discussing the idiotic meme, but if it were not for FOX giving Brown the original forum he never probably would have made it back into the public eye this week.

This man should be LISTENED TO!!1 He is an expert on ARABIAN HORSES, and oil comes from ARABIA!!1 THINK ABOUT IT, people!!!!!!!11

Funny how conservatives are always droning on about less government, less government intervention in the free market, less government regulation, and other variations on letting the free market reign while the government stays as far away as possible and off the backs of private industry.

How many times in the health care debate did we hear from conservatives that the federal government is so incompetent that they can’t run anything right and everything they touch turns to shit?

And now when private industry conjures up its own environmental catastrophe, who do conservatives go crying to get more involved in cleaning up the private industry mess and mitigating the damage? That’s right, big bad government.

Hypocrites much?

Exact same thing happened in the Wall Street meltdown. Free markets rule….until investment banks bankrupt themselves with stupidity and then all the Cramers and Kudlows of the world get on their hands and knees begging the big, incompetent, inefficient, stupid government to come and bail them out.

Again I ask, hypocrites much?

“And now when private industry conjures up its own environmental catastrophe, who do conservatives go crying to get more involved in cleaning up the private industry mess and mitigating the damage? That’s right, big bad government.”

Who said what, Whore, that prompts that statement from you? I don’t know any conservatives who don’t think that institutions such as The Coast Guard, NOAA, NASA and the post office are not legitimate roles for the government.

To everyone here who has ever jumped on Frances Martel, Media Matters has made it official; we are kind and gentle folk.

Check out their screed here:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005030063

Chris Matthews and Robert Gibbs are fools, but I have to say I was quite disappointed to see Brownie back on my TV screen. Even John Edwards and Eric Massa have more credibility than this clown. I don’t even know what he’s saying I just want him to keep it zipped.

They seem not to realize that the moment their ideas escape the fantasy land of FOX and talk radio, they are widely recognized as nonsensical crazy talk.

Politicalglutton,
Actually even Juan, the liberal, Williiams, said there was a CLEAR double standard in how the media treated bush after katrina and how they are trying their best NOT to make this Obama’s Katrina.

I’m not saying this was Obama’s fault, but let’s not pretend their response was great. There has been a plan in place since 1994 that says in the event of an oil spill, you (the fed gov’t) do an oil burn and they didn’t have the equiptment to do it and didn’t get it for 8 days.

But according to a Dem Congressman in MS, this was nothing but a little spilt chocolate milk and not the huge deal it’s being made out to be.

And now when private industry conjures up its own environmental catastrophe, who do conservatives go crying to get more involved in cleaning up the private industry mess and mitigating the damage? That’s right, big bad government.

Actually, the only problem I have is the media bias in the coverage of the 2 events. I wouldn’t have said a word about Obama’s response, had it not been for that.

The whole information here is so interesting.I’m glad that Brown, who seems mentally challenged, got even Matthews to say WTF, but it says something about these vacuous talk-show producers.
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Every Gulf Resident shouted..What an Idiot ! when Brownie said “We need to get a robot on the sea bed and get the equipment above sea level, on a dock” Beside being an insane statement, guess he never figured out during his time on the coast Louisiana that he was below sea level, so good luck brownie getting anything above sea level on a dock on the coast.used car

“Drill” is not a dirty word among U.S. voters, even after the big BP oil spill. A Zogby poll reveals that 63 percent support the expansion of offshore drilling.

MEDIATE needs more DISCLAIMERS:

“….Dan Abrams is the CEO and founder of Mediaite.com Dan is unique in that he was also the General Manager of MSNBC where he defined the network as “The Place for Politics”…..”

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You really didn’t have to go any further with the headline “Chris Matthews Is ‘Confused’ “….

A Zogby poll reveals that 63 percent support that Michael Brown is an idiot.

Ahh, Michael Brown. There will always be hoards of people to remind us of the years of the abyss of Republipunk Darkness. The gifts that keep on giving. ‘Yore doin a heckuva job, Brownie! Yup.”

This is my favorite part of the video: “I mean, to me it’s like Katrina all over because people at the top are not paying attention to what’s going on on the ground.” said Michael Brown, FEMA director during Katrina hurricane disaster.