WASHINGTON — The White House scolded the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday for staging a phony news conference about assistance to victims of wildfires in southern California.
The agency _ much maligned for its sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina over two years ago _ arranged to have FEMA employees play the part of independent reporters Tuesday and ask questions of Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, the agency's deputy director.
The questions were predictably soft and gratuitous.
"I'm very happy with FEMA's response," Johnson said in reply to one query from an agency employee.
White House press secretary Dana Perino said it was not appropriate that the questions were posed by agency staffers instead of reporters. FEMA was responsible for the "error in judgment," she said, adding that the White House did not know about it beforehand and did not condone it.

remember when the boy king
arrived in new orleans
the capital lit behind him
by generators they flew in

for the charade

Tonight so many victims of the hurricane and the flood are far from home and friends and familiar things. You need to know that our whole Nation cares about you – and in the journey ahead you are not alone. To all who carry a burden of loss, I extend the deepest sympathy of our country. To every person who has served and sacrificed in this emergency, I offer the gratitude of our country. And tonight I also offer this pledge of the American people: Throughout the area hit by the hurricane, we will do what it takes … we will stay as long as it takes … to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives. And all who question the future of the Crescent City need to know: There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans, and this great city will rise again.

i watch him act
badly i might add
with the movie star
pretender

oil is at 93 dollars a barrel
the highest in history

careful now everyone
remember before the went into iraq
same shit
different year

wake up
ultimate power corrupts
ultimately
it has

BO asswipes
showed up at my book signing
camera in hand
cocky young white men

darkness always
fights the light

they were bullied out
not soon enuf
4 my liking
eye 2 eye - turn it off

i saw u
how do u feel
tonight
clever or cruel

for the hundreds of others
who offered their hearts
in letters and hands held
secrets and hugs

my gratitude only
as u remind me
what we all know inside
believe - it whispers

thank u
kanye take em 2 church

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