Oh, My Goodness! Not "Really" True!

From TPM Muckraker:

Looks like the game is up.

Remember that story Bobby Jindal told in his big speech Tuesday night -- about how during Katrina, he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with a local sheriff who was battling government red tape to try to rescue stranded victims?

Turns out it wasn't actually, you know, true.
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Jindal had described being in the office of Sheriff Harry Lee "during Katrina," and hearing him yelling into the phone at a government bureaucrat who was refusing to let him send volunteer boats out to rescue stranded storm victims, because they didn't have the necessary permits. Jindal said he told Lee, "that's ridiculous," prompting Lee to tell the bureaucrat that the rescue effort would go ahead and he or she could arrest both Lee and Jindal.
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But now, a Jindal spokeswoman has admitted to Politico that in reality, Jindal overheard Lee talking about the episode to someone else by phone "days later." The spokeswoman said she thought Lee, who died in 2007, was being interviewed about the incident at the time.

Pecadillo! Pecadillo! Why don't the bloggers leave Governor Jindal alone?

Take note that it was first xgz at Daily Kos and then TPM who scooped the big media on the story. Who knows when BM would have unearthed the story, if ever.

UPDATE: Apologies to Big Media, Keith Olbermann, who said on Wednesday evening, "It looks like he made it up."

H/T to JCF in the comments.

UPDATE 2: The very, very, very, very latest from Jindal staffer, Tom Teepell, "This is liberal blogger B.S. The story is clear." Read TPM Muckraker to find out exactly how clear the story is.