AJC’s Galloway disavows self — sort of
Last week, I noted that AJC political blogger Jim Galloway equated President Obama’s response to our recent flooding in metro Atlanta to President Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina. As seems to often the case in his Political Insider blog, Galloway took the wild claims of a Republican politician — in this case, candidate for state attorney general Sam Olens — at face value; then, he amplified those claims.
In a Friday followup, Galloway pointed out that other Republicans — namely Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson — actually praised the administration’s response to the flood as “magnificent” and “quick.”
So how did Galloway square all that praise from Georgia’s two Republican senators with his earlier contention that the feds’ response amounted to “Shades of Katrina”?
Easy. He just blamed his source. “There’s no echo,” he wrote of Chambliss and Isakson, “of the frustration expressed by Cobb County Commission Chairman Sam Olens on Thursday, about the days it took to get official federal attention.”
Galloway failed to note, however, that the “Katrina” analogy didn’t come from Olens. It was in Galloway’s own headline. Unless … wow … has the AJCbecome so conservative that Republican politicians are now writing its headlines?
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