Michael Brown, the former head of FEMA much excoriated for the agency’s response to Hurricane Katrina, reportedly has a deal to become a talk radio host in Denver.
According to Denver Westword, Brown will host a show on KOA in a primetime slot, from 7 to 10 p.m. weeknights.
Brown told the blog he’ll resist jumping on the media bandwagon when someone in the news is painted as a villain, offering an “objective point of view.”
“I’ve been loved and hated by the media,” he said. “So when something comes up and everyone is saying, ‘This is outrageous!,’ what better person to be able to say, ‘Let’s wait a second and look at what else might be going on.'”
Brown has continued his career since resigning over the handling of Katrina in 2005, working as a disaster response consultant in Colorado. He’s also teaching a class on the Patriot Act this spring at the University of Denver.
“People get beaten up and thrown under the bus all the time,” he notes. “You’ve got the choice of letting the bus run over you three times, and wallowing in that, or getting up and moving. And my choice was to get up and keep moving.”
The AM programming director for Clear Channel, which owns KOA, said Brown is “really very knowledgeable about what is going on and has solid opinions. Out of a list of really great candidates, he came to the top.”
(H/T The Hill)
