Just the natural evolution of our Orwellian administration.

NEW YORK- It appears the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has found the answer to nosey reporters in the two years since Hurricane Katrina: have a press conference and have your own people ask the questions.

According to columnist Al Kamen in The Washington Post, a FEMA press briefing in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday related to the California wildfires included several limitations that made press involvement difficult.
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Kamen later states: "the questions were asked by FEMA staffers playing reporters.....

FEMA officials told Kamen that their people did not make up the questions and Johnson did not know what was to be asked. (ed note- Sure.)
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Noted Kamen: "Heck of a job, Harvey."

Next thing you know, people will be conducting interviews with themselves..... oh, wait. Nevermind.

video is of a painfully stupid Howard Kurtz interviewing..... himself.