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Brit did a good job on spinning the oil leak in his "where's the oil" rant. Funny how Brit and Rush talk like they are scientists. The sad part is that people believe them!!!
Brit did a good job on spinning the oil leak in his "where's the oil" rant. Funny how Brit and Rush talk like they are scientists. The sad part is that people believe them!!!
Hume is a complete tool of big oil....just like Limbaugh and all the rest of the "drill baby drill" crowd.
Watching them scurry for cover and attempt to shift blame has been most interesting.
Brit did a good job on spinning the oil leak in his "where's the oil" rant. Funny how Brit and Rush talk like they are scientists. The sad part is that people believe them!!!
Thanks. Now I have a bit of perspective. It also makes me glad I don't watch TV.
While I tend to lean Conservative and even far-right on some issues, I also feel there are many highly visible folks on MY(?) team, so-to-speak who are more hindrance than help to conservatism. Of course the real world is sometimes like the schoolyard where nobody really wants the kid with zero athletic ability on the kickball team but they have to take them anyway because they lost the toss for 1st pick.
Of course the more left leaning folks seem to have a fairly good supply of noisy last-picks too so I guess it balances out.
Brit did a good job on spinning the oil leak in his "where's the oil" rant. Funny how Brit and Rush talk like they are scientists. The sad part is that people believe them!!!
Wait a minute....who's doing the spinning here...the left or the right or both?
On May 2ND, Brit also said this but, no one seems to be posting this:
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On FOX News Sunday, Brit Hume, the reliable conservative voice, said that the massive oil spill in the Gulf validated environmentalists' claims that drilling for oil off shore is dangerous and a catastrophe was just waiting to happen.
Wallace: Does this accident at the Gulf change your mind about the wisdom of offshore drilling and especially more offshore drilling?
Hume: No it doesn't, but I think this. Think about what the environmentalists have always said about this -- is, is it's not a matter of if they'll be a disaster of some kind resulting of this kind of offshore drilling, it's only a matter of when. This verifies that argument and becomes a powerful factor in the debate over what to do next. I don't see any way around the political reality that this will set back the cause of offshore drilling in the United States and it will set back the cause of making us less dependent of oil brought in from overseas for which we pay out of our national treasure, tons of money of to foreign countries.
We're happy that Hume didn't try and denounce our complaints as if it was mere chance that this disaster happened. Offshore drilling projects will do nothing about our energy crisis as we move forward and it's always been short sighted thinking even when Obama sets his eyes on it as well.
Brit's "Where's the oil" broadcast was from May 16Th....2 weeks ago. A lot has happened since then.....the spill has obviously continued to grow.....it started washing up on the shore....we started seeing a live video of the leak underwater......along with a better assessment of how much oil is leaking each day.
Now that the leak has reached the size that it has and is starting to wash ashore in some places, using Brit's comments from two weeks ago and Rush's comments from even further back (around the beginning of the month, shortly after the leak started) to show that they support off shore drilling and are trying to minimize the damage the oil spill has now done, is spin itself. It's an attempt to ignore the fact that the leak has been flowing all this time and is the reason the spill is as big as it is now and causing the damage that it's doing. Obama made it clear that BP would be held financially responsible for the cost of the oil spill and then left them in charge of stopping the leak......considering the fact that their shortcuts caused the explosion and the leak in the first place, it doesn't surprise that they're still trying to stop the leak all this time.
As far as energy for this country, we decided a long time ago to stop building any more nuclear power plants. We use a lot coal and oil to make electricity now which we would like to stop doing as well. At the same time, we're also want to cut our dependence on foreign oil. Part of the reason it's been so difficult to stop this leak, is the depth that it's at...it's been done before at much shallower depths but, we don't want the oil platforms drilling closer to shore where it would be shallower and much easier to quickly cap a leak. We're working on alternative sources but, that's some where in the future for now so, until then we need oil.
On the same show Brit made his "where's the oil" comment, he brought up how super tankers have been the main cause of oil spills and compared to off shore drilling, are much more of a risk as far as oil spills go. He then mentioned that if we were to have a moratorium on off shore drilling because of this spill, it's going to increase our dependence on foreign oil along with the need to ship it here with super tankers.
If there's an accident/explosion on an off shore drilling rig, IMO there's no excuse for an oil leak as a result of it....that part is preventable even if the accident/explosion wasn't for some reason. If a super tanker has an accident/explosion of some kind, preventing it from leaking oil and creating a spill, is much less possible. There are too many variables....and oil platform is only going to leak from one place, from the hole that it drilled to reach oil.....with a super tanker it would depend on the type of accident (did it run aground, capsize, was it an explosion, etc....), how big the hole is where it's leaking, where the hole is that it's leaking from, etc...
In the end, neither of them are the President!! So THEY can be wrong. Obama can't! And he WAS!
He was wrong to be so slow in the response to this! Wrong for not giving Gov Jindal the permits for cleaning up etc....
The Coast Guard was there on day one. I've yet to hear anyone on the left or right explain what they specifically expected the President to do at the onset of the spill. All I hear is emotional ranting but as per usual, no solutions or alternatives.
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The sad part is that people believe them!!! 
