Bobby Jindal Tells Massive Lie, Many Too Busy Laughing At Him To Notice
Jindal's canned response has been variously described as hokey, homespun and just plain condescending. MSNBC's Rachel Maddow was left stupefied, briefly losing the power of speech before remarking on the hyporcrisy of a Republican invoking "government failure during Katrina as a model for how to move forward as a country":
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So far, so bad for Jindal. But the following day bloggers at Daily Kos and Talking Points Memo began to raise doubts about Jindal's story of standing alongside Sheriff Harry Lee, as he announced he'd rather be arrested than prevented from sending out volunteer rescue boats which lacked the correct insurance:
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The story is false- Jindal's office has admitted that the governor overheard Lee, who died in 2007, telling the story in an interview several days later. Jindal used a story stolen from a dead man as the centrepiece of Tuesday's GOP response, and in ten short minutes the future of the Republican Party became a laughing stock and a liar.