Tuesday, November 08, 2005
Fashion Gods Out, Crappers In!
Michael Brown should look to tweaking his public image. Now that his emails have been made public, it is doubtful the Fashion God will be working for any government. Granted, the emails that have been held up for public ridicule are only a handful of the emails he sent, but anyone in a public position should know anything they say will be eventually held up for public review.
If Mike's emails make him out to be an incompetent boob of a leader, Marty Bahamonde's make him into a personal folk hero. FEMA's sole representative in New Orleans when the levees broke, Marty was understandably upset when he got little response to his emails on how dire the situation was, and instead got a second-hand cc: of an email from Brown's press secret requesting additional time for Brown to get dinner as Baton Rouge was back to normal and restaurant wait times would be longer. Bahamonde's response:
"OH MY GOD!!!!!!!! [T]ell her (the press secretary) that I just ate an MRE and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome along with 30,000 other close friends so I understand her concern about restarauntsrants. Maybe tonight I will have time to move the pebbles on the parking garage floor so they don't stab me in the back while I try to sleep."
That's priceless. Personally, I'd make sure he's got a little higher ranking in the post-Katrina FEMA.
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