This post by Josh Marshall on the Jindal/Lee story is really hilarious. Marshall smugly insists that Erick’s original post has no facts in it, but he stubbornly refuses to quote his citations to primary sources and video. We laid out the case here further as to why those facts, now supplemented by video of Sheriff Lee himself confirming that Jindal was in his office the day after the hurricane and was hands-on involved all week, demolish the essential points TPM was trying to make. What were TPM’s core points?

(1) That Jindal made up being in Lee’s office in the days after Katrina and thus the whole anecdote was fabricated
(2) That Jindal was actually 75 miles from the action and played no role in responding to Katrina

I dare Josh Marshall to defend either of these positions now; he can’t even try, which is why he doesn’t address the facts in his post, preferring to congratulate himself. At this point, his site has shifted the goalposts entirely (a Marshall specialty) and is reduced to picking at whether a statement by Jindal’s spokeswoman somehow suggests that Jindal oversold the story (the argument now seems to be whether he implied that he was there when Lee was ordering the boats out, rather than when Lee was taking grief for doing so, and whether this was Tuesday or Thursday that it happened), none of which remotely resembles the original charges.

Don’t hold your breath waiting for him to admit that his story has been utterly discredited. He’s just going to declare victory and move on to the next smear job.

Get over it, and stop with the one-handed typing on this story. Contra your increasingly wild-eyed protestations to the contrary, this story started with your pet failed sportscaster babbling about Bobby Jindal being 75 miles from New Orleans, mostly because he’s just smart enough to read what people like you put in front of him, and too dumb to read a map. And now that enough people from the Louisiana that’s in Reality Non-Unicorn have shown up to point this out, you’re trying to base your increasingly shaky case on a post that Ben Smith just keeps having to clarify and clarify and clarify. He’s at the stage where the Jindal people literally calling BS on this story, which puts us right back to the fact that this says nothing about Bobby Jindal, and everything about your inability to get past skin color.

Oh, and before you tell me that you don’t believe Jindal’s aides, shall we listen to the late Sheriff Lee himself? This is from when he endorsed Bobby for Governor: unlike you, he saw the content of the man’s character rather than the color of his skin.

God save me from the racism of the Online Left.  God save us all, in fact.

Moe Lane

PS: Thank you for confirming that you’re afraid of him. The smart thing would have been to just let the speech go.

PPS: I have to ask: is there sexing involved with this? Did they promise that you could wear the moose head during your session? - Because I have to say, you’re showing all the signs of being a person who has five hundred slightly different drawings of Sarah Palin being punched in the face saved on your hard drive.

The left wing has descended into asshattery to try to discredit Bobby Jindal’s story about Sheriff Harry Lee and Katrina.

The left accuses Bobby of not being near New Orleans when Katrina hit and only flying over.

Apparently, the left is now defining “during Katrina” as “when the hurricane was blowing over. That’s a big shift from 2005 when they were attacking Bush for delaying getting to New Orleans.

The asshats of the left, however, are going to have some trouble now. Here’s Sheriff Lee talking about Bobby being on the ground the “day after” the hurricane hit as the levees were collapsing and hell was actually then being unleashed.

Tuesday night, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal recounted to the nation an anecdote about his experiences on the ground during Hurricane Katrina, citing a meeting with Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee. On Wednesday night’s telecast, apparently relying exclusively on the speculations of left-wing bloggers far from Louisiana, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann called Jindal a liar, not only saying that this anecdote was “apparently not true” but claiming that Jindal was “about 75 miles away in Baton Rouge” and “when he did tour the immediate disaster area, he did so by air, flying over it.”

If NBC News has any respect whatsoever for factual accuracy, it will require Olbermann to retract that accusation and make a public apology to Jindal on air.

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Welcome to the leftwing asshats coming over to check out this post. Note you’re being brought here instead of to say this post or this post or this post.

“During Hurricane Katrina, I and former Sheriff Harry Lee were with (then Congressman) Bobby Jindal more than anybody else from the federal government. He didn’t wait for cameras or permission — he was boots on the ground, and anyone that disputes that obviously wasn’t in Louisiana.” — Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand, Democrat

Something is rotten at TPM.

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