Jindal's Katrina story is slipping away
National TV, your big break, and you get your own hero story wrong?
I had fully believed that this speech was just a bad moment for Jindal and that he would, to some degree, bounce back, but getting caught telling false stories of your own heroism in a pre-written speech of that magnitude....
So, here's the question: Do you think Jindal knowingly told a false version, or is the false version of his importance what he "remembers?" (And if #2, what does that say about the psychology of the man?)
I had fully believed that this speech was just a bad moment for Jindal and that he would, to some degree, bounce back, but getting caught telling false stories of your own heroism in a pre-written speech of that magnitude....
So, here's the question: Do you think Jindal knowingly told a false version, or is the false version of his importance what he "remembers?" (And if #2, what does that say about the psychology of the man?)
posted by mikevotes at
1:40 PM
5 Comments:
One day, sometime after the initial crisis had passed, Bobby and Sheriff Lee were sittin' around the office, pissin' and moanin' about the frickin' fed bureaucrats havin' their heads up their asses. Somthin' to do with INsurance or paperwork holdin' things up. They got to tellin' war stories...
"Why, I had one o' them a-holes on the phone and I'm tellin' em #!@#$ you. You can %#@ arrest me too!" says Sheriff Lee.
"I hear that!" says Bobby."!@#$ guvmint." The irony completely lost on the Repbulican congressman, who's political leader was in charge of the entire cock-up that had him so incensed.
And thus a hero story was born.
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-epm, at 3:22 PM
We occasionally do run across this in politicians. It's a weird self aggrandizing psychology.
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mikevotes, at 5:05 PM
So apparently if you ever hear a combat veteran telling a story about being under fire, it's the same as you being under fire. It's a meaningless distinction. It's okay if you re-tell it as if you were there, how brave you were through the ordeal, and how crucial the role you played was.
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Todd Dugdale , at 6:31 PM
Yeah, taht's another parallel that occurred to me.
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mikevotes, at 12:55 PM
I wonder if Jindal wasn't giving a speech based on, not necessarily his own writing, but input from a group of speechcrafters charged with building a narrative. Since it wasn't his own, or only his own, problems and inconsistencies would then naturally crop up.
I think all of Bush's speeches showed the same work-of-many-hands qualities.
Jindal though, unlike Bush, still has a few thoughts of his own, in my opinion.
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r8r, at 2:27 PM
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