Early Morning Swim: Keith Olbermann Talks BP Politics with Howard Fineman
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 8th, 2010 4:53 am by HL
Early Morning Swim: Keith Olbermann Talks BP Politics with Howard Fineman
Stop playing the ‘blame game’ people!
But…but…accidents happen.
Almost two-thirds of Americans agree “strongly” or “somewhat” that the federal government should pursue criminal charges against BP and other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, according to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll.
The poll, conducted Thursday through Sunday, found that 73 percent of the country feels that the nation’s greatest oil spill is a “disaster” with an additional 25 percent ranking it a “serious problem.”
“Public complaints against BP are twofold: Most give poor ratings to its reaction to the massive spill, and most blame the company and its drilling partners for taking unnecessary risks that could have caused the spill,” the poll reported.
Stop playing the ‘blame game’ people!
[/Rand Paul]
What constitutes Journalism…
Funny how journalism works nowadays.
That certainly isn’t a question.
I’m not going to defend Helen Thomas’ offensive remarks — any more than I spend any time defending Pat Buchanan’s offensive remarks…
…that there are too many Jews on the Supreme Court
…that Hitler has been poorly served by historians.
…that Half of the survivors of the Holocaust overstate their suffering and are unreliable witnesses.
…about how a Latino woman couldn’t possibly have graduated top of her class at Princeton.
…that gays are bent on “satanism” and “suicide“.
…that the massacre of 67 black South Africans was just a bit of whites mistreating a couple of black people.
…that Martin Luther King was a “fraud” and a “demagogue”
…that women are just not endowed with the capability to compete in a capitalist economy.
But guess what? Pat is still a member of the Village in good standing — able to pontificate at will, whenever MSNBC breaks open his glass booth.
But 90 year old Helen Thomas gets the boot…because she’s just not practicing in the proper village way, whatever that is. But apparently, below this is the proper way to commit journalism!
Late Late Night FDL: Wild Thing
Jimi Hendrix — Wild Thing, Monterey Pop Festival, 1967.
Jimi Hendrix — Wild Thing, Monterey Pop Festival, 1967.
Jimi Hendrix – vocals guitar
Noel Redding – bass backing vocals
Mitch Mitchell- drums
What’s on your mind?
