Sign of the Apocalypse: Mike "Heckuva Job Brownie" Now Hosting Radio As a Political/Gov't Expert

Posted by David Sirota, Open Left at 11:51 AM on August 12, 2009.

So I'm driving home after finishing up my drive-time radio show here on AM760 in Colorado, and I'm flipping through the stations and I come upon 850 KOA - the local conservative station. There's a host on there filling in for the regular guy - and this guest host has a vaguely familiar voice. He's whining and moaning about how he's among the richest 5 percent in the country and is being oppressed by the tax system. He's reading the script with the usual lies - all of them addressed and debunked in my most recent column. I'm getting mildly irritated listening to the drivel - but then become apoplectic when I hear this person introduce himself as Michael Brown.

Yes, Mike "Heckuva Job, Brownie" Brown. On the airwaves. As a political/governmental expert.

I. Shit. You. Not.

If this isn't definitive proof of reverse gravity and wingnut welfare, I really don't know what is. This guy is literally the international posterboy for incompetence - a guy who basically did nothing while an American city drowned. And just four short years later, he's on the airwaves as a serious political/governmental expert.

Help drown an American city, become a global symbol for incompetence, and then successfully promote yourself as an "expert" and obtain a top-5-percent salary...I'm adding that phenomenon to my list of serious Signs of the Apocalypse.

P.S. Listen in to AM760 tomorrow between 7am and 10am Mountain Time (9am-12pm ET) - we're going to go point-by-point through Brownie's tax lies. As the data will show, he's indeed doing "a heckuva job" with the truth.

David Sirota was the top spokesman for Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee. He is currently writing a book on the middle class economic squeeze for Crown Publishers. You can contact him at Davidsirota.com.