Some of what Gibbs was talking about...
Hi, Pearl Bo Lee.
Read this aloud. Find your favorite media Gulf hype. Does it remind you of anybody? Did the professional left rear its ugly head and yell"Faux in da henhouse?"? Does the shoe fit?
This is Dylan da Rat's Uncle August, reporting to you live from the shores of Lake Simmons, saying "If you don't like the news, go out and make up some of your own. It works roun' here."
Our Real Gulf Disaster
From the Aug. 30, 2010, issue of NR.
Four months after the Deepwater Horizon spill — which President Obama called the “worst environmental disaster America has ever faced” — the oil is disappearing, and fisheries are returning to normal. It turns out that this incident exposed some things that are seriously wrong in the world of oil — and I don’t mean exploding wells. There was a broad-based failure on the part of the media, the science establishment, and the federal bureaucracy. With the nation and its leaders looking for facts, we got instead a massive plume of apocalyptic mythology and threats of Armageddon. In the Gulf, this misinformation has cost jobs, lowered property values, and devastated tourism, and its effects on national policy could be deep and far-reaching.
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What’s especially unfortunate here is that all the misinformation connected to overreaction to the spill may have had a serious influence on President Obama and his advisers (Thank you Keith, thank you Rachel, thank you koan, thank you stockman scott...yer best bud, Karl Rove)— leading, for example, to the Gulf drilling ban and an overly strict regulatory approach. This is a tough sell for conservatives, many of whom are looking for evil purposefulness, rather than delusion, in the administration’s policies. But think of it this way. We have the most liberal administration in history, and it is composed of people who lack the reflexive skepticism that conservatives apply to the mainstream media and left-wing blogs. Spend enough time following the reporting and blogging on Deepwater Horizon, and you come to realize that the administration’s behavior in the crisis likely wasn’t based on a cynical master plan; rather, the administration was overwhelmed by sheer panic about the magnitude of the potential disasters, outlined by its most loyal supporters, that it thought it faced.
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