And not only that...

...it's a fucking lie anyway. Just like, "he never said 'imminent'". The best they can come up with is an incredibly limp attempt to dodge the truth, but be sure that they will flog this particular dead horse so violently that Chris Matthews will be declaring it the winner at the Preakness.

Media Matters - NBC, Fox uncritically reported new White House explanation for Bush levee claim, ignore evidence indicating awareness of breach threat

Contrary to the claim that Bush was warned only about "overtopping" rather than "breaching," Media Matters for America has noted that Bush reportedly expressed concern about a breaching of the levees while the hurricane battered New Orleans. As reported in a March 2 New York Times article, then-Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) director Michael D. Brown stated at a August 29, 2005, midday videoconference that "he had spoken with President Bush twice in the morning and that the president was asking about reports that the levees had been breached." Myers, in fact, aired this part of the August 29 videotape early in her Nightly News report, but failed to note that this statement cast doubt upon Mayfield's assertion that Bush had only been warned about overtopping.

As noted by the weblog Think Progress, Brown repeated this claim in a March 2 interview on CNN's The Situation Room:

JEANNE MESERVE (CNN homeland security correspondent): In the transcripts of the 29th briefing, you talk about conversations you've had that morning with the president. This is the day of landfall, and you say you've talked to him about a number of things. He's asked questions breaches of the levees. How did the president know to ask about breaches of the levees? Did he have reports in hand at that time already that that had happened in New Orleans?

BROWN: There's no question in my mind he probably had those reports, because we were feeding in the Homeland Security Operations Center, into the White House sit room, all of the information that we were getting. So he had to have had that information. Plus, I think the president knew from our earlier conversations that that was one of my concerns, that the levees could actually breach.

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