2/27/2009

Bobby the Exorcist Admits He's a Liar; Everyone Else Yawns Because We Figured It Out Two Days Ago

From TPMMuckraker: Jindal Admits Katrina Story Was False

(Thanks to Thomas of Blue Indiana for pointing this one out.)
Looks like the game is up.

Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night -- about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?

Turns out it wasn't actually, you know, true.
Surprise, surprise. People had already dissected the story and found out it couldn't be true, considering that Jindal was in Baton Rouge, having recently evacuated, during the timeframe that he claimed he was in Nawlins pissing off DEM BUER-EE-O-CRATZ. Of course, this isn't going to stop the GOPpers - they're still going to claim it's really, really true, and that it proves the EBIL FEDROOL LEEBROOL GUMMINT is bad. (This overlooking that the federal help that he claims is the greatest evil ever was, at the time, headed by Republicans.)

I'm really wondering if any part of the story is true by this point. We know all he did was a flyover at first, that his story was an obvious lie, that he lied about it later in the Wall Street journal, and that he lied several other times during his speech.