Apparently the story that Bobby Jindal told during his response to Obama's non-SOTU on Thursday about how he and a rogue Louisiana Sheriff beat back the bureaucrats to allow volunteers to use their boats to rescue Katrina victims? You know, the story that was the only vaguely compelling part of Jindal's mag-lev and volcano-monitor bashing speech? Well... not actually true.
Jindal had described being in the office of Sheriff Harry Lee "during Katrina," and hearing him yelling into the phone at a government bureaucrat who was refusing to let him send volunteer boats out to rescue stranded storm victims, because they didn't have the necessary permits. Jindal said he told Lee, "that's ridiculous," prompting Lee to tell the bureaucrat that the rescue effort would go ahead and he or she could arrest both Lee and Jindal.
But now, a Jindal spokeswoman has admitted to Politico that in reality, Jindal overheard Lee talking about the episode to someone else by phone "days later." The spokeswoman said she thought Lee, who died in 2007, was being interviewed about the incident at the time.
You'd think that these guys would maybe think twice before baldly lying about something that can readily proved to be untrue in a major speech. On the other hand, I guess you'd also think that they wouldn't turn domestic policy over to Joe the Plumber either.
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