Gulf Spill Will Cost Billions in Economic Activity - Conservative Defend BP
Led by Fox News, right-wing media have attacked Attorney General Eric Holder over his announcement that the Justice Department has begun civil and criminal investigations into the Gulf oil spill. Their attacks echo previous criticism from Fox and right-wing media figures over SEC charges and congressional hearings into Goldman Sachs and hearings into a Toyota vehicle recall.Does this twit have a clue what he's talking about - Peter Johnson Jr. stated that the administration's response was "a little bit delayed" . The administration started its response immediately upon hearing the Horizon rig had exploded. And since when is prosecuting a company that has stolen tens of billions of dollars in income from the American people a "distraction". Looking for morals and values? Skip the right-wing conservative punditry.
Fox News, right-wing media attack Holder, administration over investigation into oil spill
Kilmeade suggests criminal inquiry into oil spill "just tank[ed] the market," asks, "Was that smart?" On the June 2 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade stated, "The Department of Justice is probing for a myriad of reasons, it looks like, into BP and what they've done and what they could have violated." He then suggested that the announcement of the investigations "drop[ped] BP's stock 15 percent" and "just tank[ed] the market," and asked, "Was that smart?" Co-host Steve Doocy replied, "Maybe not, because if they're facing all these lawsuits, suddenly, where's that money going to come from?"
Johnson Jr.: "This prosecution is becoming a distraction." Also during the June 2 Fox & Friends, Fox News legal analyst Peter Johnson Jr. stated that the administration's response was "a little bit delayed" and that "[t]his prosecution is becoming a distraction."
Krauthammer: "[D]eclaring war on the oil company, at this time, and in a criminal way, I think is really distasteful." On the June 1 edition of Fox News' Special Report, Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer stated of Holder's announcement: "I think what the attorney general did today is somewhat over the line ... I might have missed it but I didn't hear a syllable about what evidence he has of criminal activity here." Krauthammer later said: "So they want to make it look like they are doing something, but declaring war on the oil company, at this time, and in a criminal way, I think is really distasteful. It's not going to help anybody."
Dear Sarah Palin your home planet called and thinks you should return home, Sarah Palin’s Facebook Blasts Environmentalists for Oil Spill
Palin insists that those those darned hippy environmentalists are the ones influencing public policy enough to keep oil drilling away from “safe” places like the Alaska Natural Wildlife Reserve that would finally break America from its dependence on foreign oil.Palin's point of view holds such contempt for American values it's no surprise the conservatives love her.
Yes, the blame lies solely with the activists who are clearly causing the plumes of oil to gush into the waters of the Gulf, and certainly not the failure of a blowout preventer mechanism that was allegedly shrugged off weeks before the catastrophe by an official from the drilling company, Transocean. It could not have been the decision not to employ or require an acoustic switch as a backup to the blowout preventer’s breakdown. And of course, any alleged negligence on the part of Transocean, BP and the Minerals Management Service, which is responsible for regulating offshore drilling of this type, doesn’t even come into play.
