re: #39 b_sharp

I’m not being touchy, I’m just curious. What did he do that makes him a leftist buffoon?

He is a leftist, I don’t need to post anything about that, that’s for sure.

He came here with a personal photographer and another person, to “rescue” people from the waters of Katrina. Apparently, our guys in the Dept of Wildlife and Fisheries, who were trained to do this work and who were working 24/7, couldn’t do the job well enough to satisfy Mr. Penn.

Now, I think he meant well, I really do. But he shows up here, gets into a boat with his photographer and apparently also with Douglas Brinkely, to go rescue people. Only he forgot to put the plug in the boat, and pert’ near went under. Meanwhile, a couple of rescue-trained W&F agents were assigned to make sure he didn’t hurt himself.

Again, I think he meant well. But for gawd’s sake - why come down here and present yet one more thing for folks to have to look out for? I mean, he just didn’t think it through. He was in the way.

According to Douglas Brinkley, they rescued 40 people. Oh, yay. I suspect the W&F folks would have rescued those folks just as well.

Besides which, while I at one time had a lot of respect for Douglas Brinkley, after I read his Katrina book, I lost all respect for him - it was a Blanco cover-up. He absolutely minimized her mistakes - I didn’t have to read about it, I was here and watched it unfold in real time. His account of Blanco in his book has been sanitized. Brinkley and his family, of course, being good buddies with the Blancos. So, Brinkley may say he and Sean Penn rescued 40 people that day. I tend to - doubt it.