Aghast at the temerity of the rich white men running BP, Rachel Maddow took it upon herself to call them on their latest (greatest?) audacity.
Last night, Maddow could barely contain her outrage about the obscenely dishonest and disingenuous spin vomited up by BP fat cat Doug Suttles, who was interviewed on a helicopter (!) by NBC News correspondent Tom Costello.
Eventually getting all schoolteacher by bringing us to the big video board to illustrate the extent of the wrongness, Maddow makes it very clear that the lying liars were indeed so full of shit that their eyes turned brown.
Mr. Suttles? Yesterday you were known as "Chief Operating Officer of BP Exploration and Production."
From now on you will be known as Ms. Maddow's b*** the rich white guy PWNED by Rachel Maddow.
Video and some transcript below.
Rachel:
Among his great pointy questions was one about the mythical Caribbean walrus and its role in BP's oil spill response plan. to refresh your memory, the response plan by BP, the one specific to the gulf of Mexico listed walruses that live in cold water among the species of wildlife you'd have on worry about in the event of an oil spill in the gulf of Mexico.
Costello:
The spill plan that bp had that has been reported widely was talking about protecting walruses and sea otters and a main point of contact is someone that died five years before the plan was created. did bp really take this seriously?
Suttles:
well, i think you have to go in and look at that plan in detail. the document that refers to things like walruses and seals actually refers to species that can be heavily impacted by a spill and all species, not ones unique to the gulf.
Rachel:
>> Really? the plan in which walruses appear on a list of possibly affected species is called the bp regional oil spill response plan for the gulf of mexico. so we meant to do that. we were talking about all species everywhere plus unicorns. that's not really an answer. it's not even a remotely believable answer.
And why haven't we seen any footage of those oiled walruses?
Or for that matter, oiled unicorns?
Moving on to the lie that makes Jesus cry.
Costello asks why we have seen the poke and suck technology advance in ways that jab Mother Earth in places previously untouched by man, but the cleanup technology is some guy holding a mop bucket.
Costello:
i think a lot of Americans are surprised that here we are dealing with the biggest oil disaster in u.s. history and yet we're relying on technology to clean it up that is 30, 40, 50 years old. has the technology to clean up a spill just simply not advanced, and if not, why not?
Suttles:
Part of the reason is there's so few big spills. the events haven't driven the technology change out there. i think this event properly will.
Rachel:
Hold on a second.
"The cleanup technology hasn't been developed because there haven't been enough oil spills"?!?
If only there had been some oil spilled somewhere in the last 40, 50 years, the oil industry would have been forced to come up with a better way to clean it up!!1one
Maddow goes on to mention just a couple small items that may just be considered exceptions to the "so few big spills" rule. Just a few.
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At the top of this edition of TRMS, there was even more pertinent and important journalism.
George W. Bush, in 2008, made a point of pushing forward with such projects. Dubya reversed his daddy's own Executive Order preventing such deep water offshore drilling.
George W. Bush is to blame for moving these efforts ahead before the proper safety regulations were in place.
Rachel:
The oil industry is proving, conclusively, day after freaking day, that what they do is not safe.
The reason we have had moratoria on deep water drilling is that it wasn't safe at the time.
This is not Obama's Katrina.
This is Dubya's Oilpocalypse.
The truth is clear; no amount of spin can change the timeline of history.
Pesky thing about facts.
The next time you hear some dittohead talking about how much blame goes to the current administration, call them up with these facts and tell them to STFU right quick.
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