What's that? You staged a press conference with your own employees posing as reporters? Pure balls, man!

Oh, but you got caught? Bummer.

You say you learned from your mistakes and won't get caught again? Outstanding! We have just the position for a stage manager type like you . . .

"Beyond The Peter Principle", by Kitty Kelly.

The hallmarks of this administration have been the three "D's:" deception, deceit and duplicity. Stir "dumb" into the mix and you get Dubbyah Doin's.

Why wouldn't the best liar get a promotion?

I literally lost my breath for a second.

"I did something really stupid. I sincerely apologize. I hope to speak to you again soon from my new position at the OFFICE OF NATIONAL INTELLEGENCE."

Am I lost in some sort of black comedy?

Somebody please yell fire!

Somebody....

Hello?

How is this FEMA press conference any different from the administration's previous fake-news adventures, how is it any worse?

Does anyone understand why they are denouncing it and apologizing for it this time around?

Because, "Surely" think John and Jane American, "If they go caught at this kind of thing once, they will never be so foolhardy as to do it again!"

This was a dry run on complete direct control (as compared to mere manipulation) of the media. They are working out the kinks. Meanwhile they get to say "We've learned our lesson" without ever saing what the lesson is.

Perhaps the next thing we'll find is that he is being given a Medal of Freedom.

Why not?

and there's no brain in it, does anybody hear a scream?

Or, have they just got it confused with rolling ahead.

Either way, there is nothing surprising in this except the public admission that it was a dumb thing to do before promoting the "doer".

I hope when a Democrat takes over the White House, this band of bozos is shown the door, en masse. We certainly won't lose out on productivity during a deep housecleaning. Nobody is doing anything anyway.

We have to come up with another term for this.. this.... blasphemy.

I'm just gobsmacked. I am. What utter, complete, and impossible irony. omg.

Like being given an 'executive producer' credit on a motion picture. Often that's someone's bitch ass wife or husband who makes a nuisance of themself.

I mean it's like the title "President of the United States" means fuck all anymore, does it?

...with the government. Underachieve, Non-achieve and you'll get promoted. Through the mirror, bizarro world!

Great health care plan too!

(but you knew that!)

For sure, that Philbin has a great health plan, uh but not socialised you understand, just really great and for life. Not to mention the retirement plan, uh that's not socialised or nothing either. And the low expectations often bordering on no expectations for Philbin, uh no that's not a socialised anything. Ok well maybe that is all socialized something, but it's only for congress and other kinds of state workers. You can't have socialised anything for anybody but state workers.

It's the unwritten rule. Come on be real, be a true American, work your ass off, live in financial insecurity, so you can support socialised services for the privilidged, the few, the workers of the state.

Me, I'd prefer to get the same God-damned benefits they do.

Let's see, a man who concoted a fake press conference that is described as "one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I've seen since I've been in government" by the head of DHS is made public affairs chief of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

This is why the Office of National Intelligence has become an oxymoron.

I noticed that Patrick Philbin is on the FISA witness list for the Judiciary Committee upcoming on Wednesday.

This Patrick Philbin was a law clerk for Judge Laurence Silberman and for Justice Clarence Thomas. This Philbin also served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel.

Now the "other" J. "Pat" Philbin enters the picture with his "promotion."

According to John Dean:

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20060505.html

Just curious....are they related? Can't find anything on their genealogy bona fides....

i bet JEFF GANNON was on that press conference.

No one in the Belt-Way ever really gets fired. They just leave for "Personal Reasons" or to spend more time with their families (AKA: golf buddies/huntin buddies/fishin' buddies).

Sometimes when they really screw up they get promoted and sent to "the field" (outside of the Belt-Way) where the real world begins and ends. Here is where they really are in a postion to do some real damage but who cares? The FEMA top dogs don't have to deal with it anymore or look at him/her any longer. So yeah, the cream of the crop is in the outhouse.