Michael Brown: Obama Wanted Oil Spill (VIDEO)

Bush-era FEMA head Michael Brown accused President Obama Monday of "playing politics" with the Gulf Coast oil spill, claiming that Obama waited for the spill to worsen in order to turn public opinion against offshore drilling.

Brown, most infamous for his response to Hurricane Katrina, told Neil Cavuto that Obama and his administration are thrilled by the current disaster in the Gulf. "This is exactly what they want, because now he can pander to the environmentalists and say, 'I'm gonna shut it down because it's too dangerous,'" Brown said. "This president has never supported big oil, he's never supported offshore drilling, and now he has an excuse to shut it back down."

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[tagtron]

07:48 PM on 05/26/2010

Stick to riding horses Brownie. And don't worry about a riding helmet to protect your brain

[Bleaker]

12:56 PM on 05/26/2010

Fine. If Bush admits he caused/allowed 9-11 to happen, Obama will admit he wants the oil spill to spiral out of control.

Sigh. Idiots to the left of me, morons to the right...

[an112270]

10:55 PM on 05/07/2010

Brown says in this interview:, "nine days into the storm..." What a spot on Freudian slip! He unconsciously slipped about his own mistakes with hurricane Katrina by using the word storm. Then, he goes on to correct himself with the word 'spill' instead of 'storm'. What a bonehead. Good job Fox as usual on getting influential people to interview, lol.

[an112270]

10:44 PM on 05/07/2010

First, fox sucks. Second, Brown was an idiot during Katrina and he hasn't changed one bit, doesn't have a stick of sense in his head still, obviously.

[BrandonHill]

09:36 AM on 05/06/2010

Whaaaaaat an idiot!
I'm really sad to know that there are people who actually would buy into this BS and start hating Mr Obama. FOX, come on, where do you pick up bafoons like this!?

[iconoclast1]

11:39 PM on 05/05/2010

If you rearrange the letters in MICHAEL BROWN, you get BLAME RICH NOW. If there were a paranoid schizophrenic on the left comparable to Glenn Beck, they could conjure up quite a conspiracy from this fact.

[Don Khoury]

02:57 PM on 05/05/2010

Brownie's body language says much. The shrugs, the contempt and asymmetrical facial displays, and increased blinking rate all point to an angry unqualified person wanting others to fail in the Gulf to make him look better in the history books!

[jjgg5]

02:24 PM on 05/05/2010

What a buff oon. The Republicans reek of desperation, dirty money and antiquated politics.

[BobSacomano]

01:37 PM on 05/05/2010

This guy had to walk back some of the lies he spewed on FOX. This is typical, when these guys are on FOX they know they have an open mic to say whatever lies or anti-Obama conspiracies they please, totally unchallenged. The moment they hit a real news program they start back-pedaling and denying. It was good to see Anderson Cooper challenge him and watch him squirm like an eel in a grease barrel.

[BobSacomano]

01:32 PM on 05/05/2010

Wasn't he part of that crack team Bush put together? LOL

[deedar]

10:52 AM on 05/05/2010

... and HE is accusing the Obama admin for playing politics here...

[Skool Boiz dot com]

10:48 AM on 05/05/2010

Former FEMA Chief Brown Breaks Silence About Katrina

http://thesattirenews.blogspot.com/2010/05/former-fema-chief-brown-breaks-silence.html

[deedar]

09:50 AM on 05/05/2010

Once an idiot always an idiot (Brown)...

[SAJP]

01:25 AM on 05/05/2010

It is just so sad. Brown needs to see a series of doctors -- I truly believe he thinks he lives in some sort of alternate universe where he is actually seen as competent. Kinda like the one Fox News lives in. Pathetic.

[backekuchen]

01:12 AM on 05/05/2010

Rediculous, ludicrous, nonsense, begging the question---Brown (former FEMA director says the President wanted the spill--TX Governor says it may have been an "act of God"---today we learn that AZ Senators McCain and Kyl say there should have been no Miranda rights for the Time Square bomber and TX Senator Cornyn believes "Obama got 'lucky'" because inspite of Miranda, the bomber is cooperating and giving us lots of information. Can we not encourage one another in good works for the welfare of the people?