Emergency agency issues fake apology for fake news conference

Paul Brennan has blogged extensively (here and here) about last week’s press conference in which FEMA employees played the roles of reporters asking questions about the agency’s handling of the California wildfires. Today, in yet another press conference, Homeland Security boss Michael Chertoff called FEMA’s fake news conference (which reports to him) “one of the dumbest and most inappropriate things I’ve seen.” And this man has seen the president up close.

What’s really weird is that the Chertoff’s own “press conference” took place in front of reporters gathered from all across just one news agency: the Associated Press.

Tags: apology, Bush Administration, Chertoff, fake news, FEMA, Homeland Security, wildfires