'We have been abandoned by our own country'

We suppose it was only a matter of time before Tim Russert–rumored by everyone but Arianna Huffington to be the toughest interviewer on the Sunday talk show circuit–made a grown man cry on “Meet the Press.”

Everyone’s talking about Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard‘s appearance on the Sunday show, in which he, speaking through tears, gave a scathing critic of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina and told a heart-wrenching story of one woman’s tragic end.

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