February 04, 2013 03:02 PM UTC

Stay Classy, Michael "Brownie" Brown

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• by: Colorado Pols

Gawker reports on some unforgettable remarks last night from Michael "Brownie" Brown, former director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency under President George W. Bush, now a talk-radio host on Denver's 850 KOA. The same Michael Brown infamously in charge of FEMA in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

As you probably know, last night's Super Bowl was played at the Superdome in New Orleans. 

On August 31, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, FEMA public affairs officer Marty Bahamonde emailed his boss, then-FEMA chief Michael Brown, to make sure he understood how dire the situation had become in the Superdome, the New Orleans football stadium that was housing thousands of evacuees. "[T]he situation is past critical," he wrote in one of several emails he'd sent colleagues outlining the emergency. "We are out of food and running out of water." The stadium was overcrowded and undersupplied; there had already been three deaths, and Bahamonde expected more to die "within hours."

There was no response. A few hours later, Brown's press secretary emailed some FEMA employees, instructing them to book Brown on Joe Scarborough's MSNBC show, and to make sure he had enough time to get a good meal at a restaurant, since "restaurants are getting busy" in Baton Rouge…

Anyway, he's not ignoring the Superdome anymore! The stadium hosted the Super Bowl last night, and Brown was watching:

Someone just told me there was fighting going on in the NOLA Superdome. #shocked

— Michael D Brown (@MichaelBrownUSA) February 4, 2013

Against our better judgment, we've got to ask: what do you suppose "Brownie" means by this? A flashback? A racial thing? Some kind of astute observation that there's always "fighting in the Superdome," even when the occupants haven't been left to starve by an incompetent FEMA Director named Michael Brown?

You're right, it's probably not the last one. But this man's chutzpah knows no bounds. If you haven't heard his radio show before, it's worth noting that he uses the "Heckuva job, Brownie" quote from President Bush as part of his introduction — as though he thinks it is admirable.