
Pat Philbin, the Federal Emergency Management Administration public relations flak who allegedly staged a press conference with softball questions from FEMA employees, won't be getting a promotion. I say allegedly not to question whether or not the press conference was real--it wasn't--but to question whether Philbin's boss, Admiral Harvey Johnson, who called on his empoyees acting as faux reporters by name at the "press" conference, might have had more to do with this Orwellian stunt than his underling. When asked about his career options by CBS News, Philbin remarked: "I have lots of experience, I know how the government works." He knows too well.
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