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Phony FEMA Press Conference Not the First of Its Kind

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Posted on Nov 26, 2007

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has taken some well-deserved heat for its ersatz “press conference” held in response to October’s California wildfires, but, as it happens, FEMA wasn’t the first to stage such a smoke-and-mirrors act.


AP via Yahoo News:

On Feb. 3, 2006, an official with Immigration and Customs Enforcement asked a question during a news conference in San Antonio, Texas, according to an investigation by the Homeland Security Department—the parent agency of both FEMA and ICE.

The ICE public affairs official was standing with about 12 reporters but did not identify herself when she posed the question, Homeland Security’s head of public affairs, J. Edward Fox, wrote in a Nov. 19 letter to the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee. After the news conference, the government employee was verbally reprimanded for asking the question, Fox told Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.

Unlike the recent FEMA incident, Fox said the ICE public affairs official was advised against asking the question, but asked anyway and did not identify herself as staff. San Antonio reporters knew she was a public affairs official at the time.

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By 1drees, December 3, 2007 at 2:51 pm #
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MARY:

MADAME, you cannot Stop paying these anchor persons “celebrity wages” coz these people are actually celebrities, I Mean they do read their lines right and then the tones of presentation is just like the Management demanded so unless you are trying to swindle them out of the money that they WORKED ( read LIED) for you shouldn’t really ever suggest that, coz it makes you look like a person that denies other people of their rights and what’s rightfully theirs.
Besides the people are just right for the job and the criteria of selection is very very tough, i mean you have to be a lifelong something to get one of these jobs.

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By PatrickHenry, November 27, 2007 at 11:32 pm #

Like Ari Fleischer, our buddy at Freedomswatch. 

He’s done this for years.

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By Anthony Look, November 27, 2007 at 7:45 pm #
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The media outlets don’t believe that phony newspapers and tv news outlets will be a thing of the past sooner than later. Fox just 1 yr ago had some credibility (not much), now its commonly regarded as W.E.T.-white television network, a biased non balanced propagandist and outright lying news network. If you never heard it called that; thats cause you’re white.

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By mary, November 27, 2007 at 11:26 am #

And this is why Americans don’t listen to “news”.  Stop paying celebrity wages to hacks like Russert and Matthews and start hiring “real journalists”, this Democracy depends on it…

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By KISS, November 27, 2007 at 9:57 am #

Hell, presidents have done this for years, handing out questions to reporters to be asked and having reporters send their questions to be viewed beforehand. Each president has reporters, like Russert and Schieffer, who they know will throw them soft balls. Puttin, of Russia, has found the same game is rewarding.

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