Are you freaking kidding me?

On Tuesday, the FEMA the deputy administrator, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson, had a news briefing. Notice was so short, that most reporters couldn't get there.

FEMA then stocked the press pool with its own employees who pretended to be reporters, lobbing softball questions at their boss.

The defense?

The staff did not make up the questions, he said, and Johnson did not know what was going to be asked. "We pulled questions from those we had been getting from reporters earlier in the day." Despite the very short notice, "we were expecting the press to come," he said, but they didn't. So the staff played reporters for what on TV looked just like the real thing.

Yes, it's extremely important that it look just like the real thing.

(Here's a link to FoxNews coverage.)