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Chertoff And Reality Incompatible

This is the Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff, on NPR's All Things Considered this afternoon, September 1:

Robert Siegel: We are hearing from our reporter, he’s on another line right now, thousands of people at the convention center in New Orleans with no food, zero.

Chertoff: As I said, I’m telling you we are getting food and water to areas where people are staging. The one about an episode like this is if you talk to someone or you get a rumor or an anecdotal version of something I think it’s dangerous to extrapolate it all over the place.

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Robert Siegel: But Mr. Secretary when you say we shouldn’t listen to rumors. These are things coming from reporters who have not only covered many many other hurricanes, they’ve covered wars and refugee camps. These aren’t rumors, they are saying there are thousands of people there.

Chertoff: I would be…I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the convention center without food and water."

So much for the Republican Party being Compassionate Conservatives. Not that I ever believed it anyway.

The entire Cabinet should be stuck in the Superdome for a week to live with those thousands of people without food and water.

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