Living the American Green

Oh GOD! Why is HE here?? Is he BACK?? Who would want to listen to HIM?

Today, that bastion of Liberal NewsSpeak, the New York Times, ran a story about how even the crazy conservationists were saying that, you know, maybe this whole oil spill thing might actually be able totally overblown and hey, maybe we can get this thing cleaned up after all!

The Gulf of Mexico Foundation, basically in the same tree-hugging love fest as GreenPeace, had this to say, as quoted in the NYT:

“The sky is not falling. We’ve certainly stepped in a hole and we’re going to have to work ourselves out of it, but it isn’t the end of the Gulf of Mexico.”

A realistic, but positive take on the whole kerfuffle!

The Times didn’t bother to mention that the group in question was directly connected to the offshore drilling industry, including the people who made the rig that caught on fire and started pouring out oil.  But, since Transocean, the company that owns the Deepwater Horizon rig (which rents the rigs to BP), is the paragon of virtue, we can only assume that their people are on point and that the Times was right to take them exactly at their word and not disclose anything more about them then that they were a “conservation organization”.  That is what we are assuming.  Settle down, you wild eyed Talking Points Memo hand-wringers. 

The Times is a venerable organization, filled with excellent reporters doing amazing work.

Meanwhile, there’s more!  Heckofajob Brownie, a man who knows a thing or two about how quickly to respond to disasters was up on GOP News Fox News talking about President Barry’s terrible response time to this whole hiccup.  Brown also managed to toss into his turbulent pot of crazy the notion that this oil indelicateness was part of the Socialist master plan to keep us from drilling off shore!  Man alive, Obama and Van Jones probably both snuck on board the Deepwater Rig and blew it up themselves!  Thank goodness we have former FEMA director and marketing expert and definitely-not-at-all-invested-in-the-next-guys-also-messing-up-so-he-is-somewhat-off-the-hook-for-the-horror-he-allowed-to-be-visited-on-New-Orleans Brown here to clear things up!

Meanwhile, this is some not as good reporting as the last two examples.  But we thought we’d include it here to get some balance.

Who wrote this one?  TheAmericanGreen - The founding member of the American Green institute, and a New York based producer and writer hoping to make the jump from "freelancer" to "documentary producer". Read more from this author