OK, everybody relax about the BP oil spill off the coast of Louisiana (now about the size of southern Africa). William Kristol, who, after all, has never been wrong about anything before, reassures, "The oil spill, itself, I don't think will be a huge disaster over the medium and long-term honestly."
What's more, it's not really anybody's fault. As Texas Gov. Rick Perry explains, nothing can be done in the face of an "act of God" like a piece of faulty man-made machinery failing to function. On this point, though, Gov. Perry disagrees with his fellow conservatives Rush Limbaugh and the members of "Fox and Friends" (including former Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino). El Rushbo and company think this was a plot by some environmentalists: "What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig?" Of course, Rush isn't accusing anyone, "just noting the timing here."
Similarly, when Perino introduces her conspiracy theory by asking, sans evidence, "if there was sabotage involved," she is "not trying to introduce a conspiracy theory" before asking, "but was this deliberate?" Next thing you know, the story has already taken off, as host Steve Doocy asked Fox Business's Eric Bolling to respond to the suggestion, apparently made frequently, that "there's a possibility this could be sabotage."
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What world do these people live in? Do they get up every morning and take a pill that zaps their intelligence level down a few steps? I know this is wrong but I really believe the only thing that may (probably won't but hey I'm a dreamer) change some of these right wing propaganda artists is for some of that oil to sully the beach they call their own. Perhaps if they have to clean up the sludge that will cover beaches in the area soon, they will come to their senses? Oh who am I kidding!
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William Kristol is a perfect example of this. Many of his opinions and self-assured declarations of the wisdom of the disastrous Iraq misadventure have consistently been shown to be wrong before and after the fact.
Of course one would expect FOX to continue to trot him out regularly, since his record of being
incorrect just blends into the background there. Journalistic integrity at that network is as absent as Kristol's record of correctness.
He is a propagandist, pure and simple, and his public pronouncements are meant to mislead the public while suporting certain agendas. He is almost always well aware when he is giving false information but he is not put on the airwaves to be truthful or correct in his analysis, he is on TV and in print to push the neocon and "military-industrial complex" agenda at ALL times.
He has not become a very rich, well-connected, and (by the main stream media) well respected man by being "wrong" about current events or U.S. policy.
I believe we're getting very close to the time when it truly will be every man for himself. Lies from liars won't keep you safe or warm, and we have no more truth-tellers at the top.
When the politicial system is rigged to reward the corrupt, truth-tellers are in short supply.