Answered: Why Michael ‘Heckuva Job, Brownie’ Brown is All Over the TV
Bush-era FEMA Director Michael Brown has been on something of a magical mystery tour lately, the mystery being why he’s popping up on Fox, MSNBC, and CNN to make conspiratorial accusations, and to seemingly remind people (by contrast) of how much better the current administration handles a crisis.
Frances Martel asked that very question yesterday, and I have the answer (via Politico): publicity, for his book and his consulting company. His disaster recovery consulting company. No, I’m not kidding.
Brown tells Politico:
…he just wants the publicity. He wants to sell his new book, he says, and he wants to get some clients for his company.
“There’s that phrase, ‘Any publicity is good publicity’” Brown told POLITICO. “I kind of buy into that.”
Sure, if there are companies that need a consultant to tell them how to deploy their secret black helicopters. Brown’s drumbeat that the Obama administration deliberately let the BP Gulf Oil Spill worsen is only slightly more hinged than what Robert Gibbs thought he said. (It turns out Dana Perino was the one who floated the sabotage theory, not Brown.)
To paraphrase LL Cool J, don’t call it a comeback. Seriously, don’t, because it isn’t.
Brown tells Politico:
…he just wants the publicity. He wants to sell his new book, he says, and he wants to get some clients for his company.
“There’s that phrase, ‘Any publicity is good publicity’” Brown told POLITICO. “I kind of buy into that.”
Sure, if there are companies that need a consultant to tell them how to deploy their secret black helicopters. Brown’s drumbeat that the Obama administration deliberately let the BP Gulf Oil Spill worsen is only slightly more hinged than what Robert Gibbs thought he said. (It turns out Dana Perino was the one who floated the sabotage theory, not Brown.)
To paraphrase LL Cool J, don’t call it a comeback. Seriously, don’t, because it isn’t.
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