FEMA Fake Press Conference Organizer Gets Promotion!

Here is a valuable lesson in Bush Speak. If Bush says we, “never torture” it really means we do torture, we just don’t call it that. The latest lesson comes from the FEMA staffer who took the fall for the fake press conference that was foisted on the American public as the real thing. In it he had staff members posing as the press asking softball questions for propaganda purposes.

John “Pat” Philbin, FEMA’s director of external affairs resigned with a mumbled apology and the administration used the resignation to demonstrate they took the scandal very seriously. Today that same John Philbin becomes Director of Public Affairs for the Director of National Intelligence. See how it works? Whatever the Bush folks say, they do the opposite. Up is down and right is wrong.

Class excused.

UPDATE:

Accrording to Mitch McConnell, director of PR for the DNI, John Philbin will not be joing the department. This was not true this morning, when he was still listed as the new director. Apparently public outrage has nixed it, or at least so far.

According to McConnell:

"We can confirm that Mr. Philbin is not, nor is he scheduled to be, the director of public affairs for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence."