The Litter Box
~ Sunday, September 25, 2005
Russert spoke today with Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard. If you saw the show a few weeks ago, this interview was painful and thrilling all in one. Russert spoke to Broussard about Thomas Rodrigue, the Jefferson Parish emergency services director. Broussard bitterly complained weeks ago about the fact that through all the chaos, Rodrigue couldn’t save his mother. Russert decided to call him out on some of the details of Broussard’s exceptional emotional out pouring. Every time I see it, I find it emotionally compelling. Russert didn’t let him know what was coming. Taken totally off the mark I will paste in Broussard’s response.From the Meet the Press transcript:
Mr. Broussard: Listen, sir, somebody wants to nitpick a man's tragic loss of a mother because she was abandoned in a nursing home? Are you kidding? What kind of sick mind, what kind of black-hearted people want to nitpick a man's mother's death? They just buried Eva last week. I was there at the wake. Are you kidding me? That wasn't a box of Cheerios they buried last week. That was a man's mother whose story, if it is entirely broadcast, will be the epitome of abandonment. It will be the saddest tale you ever heard, a man who was responsible for safekeeping of a half a million people, mother's died in the next parish because she was abandoned there and he can't get to her and he tried to get to her through EOC. He tried to get through the sheriff's office. He tries every way he can to get there. Somebody wants to debate those things? My God, what sick-minded person wants to do that?
The media, Mr. Broussard....the media....
posted by Nikki B at 7:04:00 PM