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From our own Mugsy who did a fine job with this video mashup.

Where's the oil? Right Wing pundits dismissed spill.:

In the weeks immediately following the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform on April 20, 2010, Conservative pundits quickly tried to minimize the amount of damage we could expect from all that oil washing ashore, comparing it to "natural seepage" from the ocean floor. Then the oil started washing ashore, and suddenly this was "Obama's Katrina".

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Republicans have absolutely nothing to offer, except denial.

nice compilation.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Mugsy's picture

My blog motto: "Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it."

I think this does the job. :)


* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.

cycle3man's picture

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Hey Brit and Rush, sorry that this oil catastrophe put your simple minds into overload. If you can figure this riddle that follows then you may be able to understand this spill.

If a tree falls in a forest and nobody was there to see it falls;
Did the tree really fall?

ysbaddaden's picture
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5?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Mugsy's picture

I believe the correct answer is 42. :)


* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.

Where is Hume's brain? I don't see it! It must not be there.

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That's the last straw for this beltway thug puppet.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

Shadowgm's picture

Brit is such a fabulous Christian that God raptured his brain before taking his body.

ysbaddaden's picture
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Don't doctors call that a stroke?


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

docb's picture

did to get us here@

Mike The Riverine's picture

Where's the oil? I wish it was up your ass, Hume.

Don't you get it, Brit? This shilling for the oil companies is not gonna work. Even Louisiana Republicans can see this is a disaster of mythic proportions, and all you can do is feel sorry for the criminally negligent corporations that caused it. How do you fucking sleep at night?


Democratic Party progressive, Vietnam veteran and proud Union member for 41 years

Shadowgm's picture

... dancing about in his head.

ron's picture

today. Probably because he would have been called on it by Chris. Oh wait!

sixandseveneights's picture

Can Shit Fume's Christian faith offer him the type of redemption and forgiveness necessary to over come his shilling?

He's counting on it. The cad.


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

sixandseveneights's picture

Just because Rush's fat ass is big enough to absorb all the Oxycontin and Viagra he pumps into it doesn't mean the ocean is big enough to absorb all the oil that gusher is pumping into it.

Hmmm... Do you suppose Limbaw's ass could be used to block the leak, with a little help from his friends?


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

ysbaddaden's picture
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus

Shadowgm's picture

... too buoyant.

fronco's picture

Ilove this comment, its the best i herd yet.

MarathonJon's picture

If you can stomach listening to Hannity, he is constantly going after
Obama for his weak response to the spill. He has a lot of nerve. All
during the election he kept saying drill here drill now pay less. Like
Hume, Hannity supports BP, saying that BP is doing everything it can
do but Obama has fallen down on the job. Every one at Fox "news"
are little un-american weasels.

gump's picture

Maybe Brit and Rush wouldn't mind a dip off the shores of LA. Wouldn't make a difference, these guys are already slimy scum.


is intended to be a factual statement

sixandseveneights's picture

in order to do that they'd have to leave their cushy New York studios.

Which brings another point to ponder. Ever notice how the Becks, the O'Reilly's and the Limbaughs rail against librul places like NYC, yet they choose to live and work in NYC? Why don't the move to some common conservative bastion like Mississippi, Oklahoma rather than in middle of some God awful evil librul bastion like NYC.

What's that word again? Oh yes, hypocrisy.

gump's picture

NYC is where they can rob their listeners. It's all about the money.


is intended to be a factual statement

sixandseveneights's picture

I guess he figured he couldn't make millions conning the wingnuts from Costa Rica.

But just think of the health care he could get! Not to mention the ability to doctor shop legally. I guess he doesn't know what he's missing but not moving.


is intended to be a factual statement

sixandseveneights's picture

with his millions he can buy all the Oxycontin and Viagra he needs here.

I'm new to NYC and two things are clear. When there's a money transaction involved, someone will try to scam you and the most dangerous people in NY are the cops

sixandseveneights's picture

"the most dangerous people in NY are the cops"

In what American city have you lived where that wasn't the case?

Anchorage Alaska

sixandseveneights's picture

forgive me! That's not really America though, not if former Alaska Independence Party member Todd Palin has anything to do with it.

Despite all the rightwing yahoos in AK, Anchorage itself is a beautiful city. It's one of the most "livable" cities I've ever been in, and as a bonus, in 20-30 minutes from downtown you can be hiking a trail in wilderness and never see another soul.

The only drawback (for me) is that the winter nights are so loooonnnnngggggg.

In Anchorage we referred to Wasilla residents as Wasillabillies and valley pukes long before Palin reinforced those descriptions

Joe's picture

Beyond hypocrisy, beneath contempt.

event horizon's picture

Today at the Indy 500 EVERY car ran on 100% ethanol. Brazil runs on sugar cane ethanol but not us. Why? Congress and ethanol tariffs. Congress has some balls to send our kids to die and pollute the oceans for oil when there's a viable solution. Am I missing something? This is the website that appeared to sponser Indy Car Racing.

http://sweeteralternative.com/economic-advant...

ysbaddaden's picture
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I mentioned that yesterday while C&L were interviewing someone running for Congress from New Hampshire

But what I really wanted to ask was which was her favorite of the jonas brothers...


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

I don't think I'm going to give one more dollar to any politician tell I hear some kind of answer about this. How many Jonas Brothers are there?

ysbaddaden's picture
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Three, if you don't count the deranged Siamese twins they hide in the basement...


Diabolus est Deus Inversus

bmw 528's picture

My 24 year old diesel powered car runs just fine on 100% biodiesel. But better yet, why not adopt fuel cell technology with a refilling station you can have at home?

http://world.honda.com/news/2005/c051114.html

What the hell are we waiting for?


"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."

Robert F. Kennedy

sixandseveneights's picture

Believes in myths like the virgin birth and a bearded sky dude watching over us but not in facts like the BP oil spill.

Is he sure it's not a sky lady? And just what does the sky entity wear? Is the sky entity ethnic or indigenous?

And yet where is it? Where is this deity that Hume believes in so absolutely, and why can't he believe there is oil out there that he can't see?


"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-

sixandseveneights's picture

...he does believe that Tiger Woods Buddhist faith doesn't offer the redemption and forgiveness he can get from the Christian faith. Now that he believes with 100% certainty.

Can O Whoopass's picture

FOX blamed he environmentalists, too. hahahaha........

It's not so much the environmentalists as the NIMBY's like Jeb Bush who wanted no drilling anywhere NEAR Flarduh. [Nimby - Not In My Back Yard].

Shadowgm's picture

So, like, are they preparing to put out booms anywhere else, now that we're hearing Bobby 'The Exorcist' Jindal complaining about how everyone waited until it was too late?

ricky's picture

walk across oil coated water without insurance. Bobby Pi is awesome. He knows the amazement of seeing well stocked grocery shelves.


"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor

Those crazy tree-hugging liberals! They’re always trying to scare us with their warnings of dire consequences for the planet.

Global Warming – bah!
Destruction of the rain forests – puh!
Green house gases – phht!
Off-shore drilling dangerous! – garbage!

Drill, baby, drill. Drill here. Drill now. Pay less!

Cassandra weeps.

Peter G's picture

Lovely captioning.


Hasa Diga Eebowai

Mugsy's picture

:)


* There are two types of Republicans: millionaires and suckers.
"Mugsy's Rap Sheet": Recording history for those who seek to rewrite it.

project's picture

There is nothing else on the planet as stupid as a republican!

they are hard at work cleansing it of lingering nuclear flotsam and jetsam from our our spill "experts" clean up experiments. And they leak sap naturally. On the forest floor. But dirt is tough. Try living in it.


"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor

Abbybwood's picture

Brit Hume walk out of Fox studios and head for his limo and be met by about 10 activists with buckets full of oil.

Someone would be running the video as the activists would walk up to Hume and dump all the oil all over him and yell, "Here's the oil Brit!!!"

Of course they'd get arrested and it would be bad. But the video would go viral and we could download it off YouTube so it could be seen all over the world.

It would be entertaining to see the look on his stupid face.


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chervilant's picture

Maybe a few of your stoopid, gutless, spineless sycophants will finally realize how utterly indefensible are your vile utterances.

Kreskin's picture

They'll never "realize" it and certainly would never admit it if they did .


"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

ysbaddaden's picture
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Diabolus est Deus Inversus

CFAmick's picture

why call it Obama's Katrina?

The fact that Fox News is laying into that angle means that Obama is responding well. The fact that they deny it's a problem means that it's game over for human residence along the entire Gulf, the Caribbean, and half of the East Coast.

Where is the village bimbo and her "drill baby drill" ? Gee , maybe the media considers this oil disaster more important than Palin ? Thankfully , haven't seen or heard her lately .


"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."

ijustdontknow's picture

but there is no oil spill in Philly. I can only speak for my block, but I don't see it anywhere. I don't hang out down at the Schuykill or the Delaware on a regular basis; last time I looked, no oil except for what might appear from a motor boat - so you go water skiing and don't worry about it.

(Truthfully, the thought of this spill has been hard to cope with, to accept that there might be no solution, wonder why there is no mention or memorial for the lives lost in this mess, and that BP thinks it's a very minor problem.)

fastfeat's picture

Gotta wonder if Fume was given a time-out today?


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---Southwest Airlines

agelbert's picture

Wow! Over a month and a half and still not a word from Bush or Cheney. It's amazing how quiet those motormouths can be. They are probably calling their pals in the pentagon to create a distraction to help BP out. Yeah, that's right, General McCracked just said there is "clear evidence" that there are weapons of mass distraction in Iraq - WOOPS! - wrong message - this time it's about the Taliban training in Iran.

These criminal leaders are so predictable.

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