The Daily Howler - 09/13/05

IL RECUSE! Roberts can’t opine about Roe, Lane said—and he offered some fractured press logic: // link // print // previous // next //

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2005

PRIG PILE: We know—some of our readers don’t like these posts. Some of us have developed a taste for inaccurate tales of our own. But we’ve chronicled this aspect of press corps culture over the course of the past seven years—and for that reason, low, mordant chuckles rang through our vast halls as we read the Post’s editorial this morning. After a mocking headline—Goodbye, ‘Brownie’—the Post ran to misstate:

WASHINGTON POST EDITORIAL (9/13/05): No one will be sorry or surprised to learn that Michael D. Brown, formerly the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, intends to spend more time with his family. Mr. Brown will be forever remembered as the man who, at the height of the New Orleans evacuation crisis, appeared not to know that 25,000 people were crammed into the city's convention center without food, water or toilets, despite television reports broadcasting that fact for the previous 24 hours.

As we’ve asked you over the years: If these prigs didn’t really exist, could you ever imagine them?