CNN has announced that it will air a two hour telethon this week to raise money to benefit those hurt by the gulf oil spill. How dumb is that? Sure, no one wants to see anyone hurt by the oil spill, but isn't the way to do the most for those at risk to get the clean up going full blast rather than trying to raise a few million dollars? What if CNN ran a two hour show on what the Dutch skimmers could do if they were put to work in the Gulf? My understanding is that these skimmers have the capacity to remove about half of the oil that flows into the gulf each day. If that capacity got added to the ships already there, we would see a marked improvement in conditions. But the white House and the EPA do not want to use these skimmers. Each time the White House gets asked about whether or not it will waive the Jones Act, it gives the response that there has been no request for a waiver. How obscene is that response? NO REQUEST FOR A WAIVER!!!!!!!!! Maybe it is up to the President to realize that he is the one who needs to make a decision. Maybe it is up to Obama to get off his ass and take the necessary help from the Netherlands. Maybe it is up to Obama to stop with the photo ops and the trips to the gulf and to do somthing that will actually help the people and the habitat down there instead of trying only to help his political standing.
The EPA is against the skimmers because they funtion by taking about 99% of the oil out of the water and putting the rest back. That means that 1% of the oil goes back into the water and would "pollute" the Gulf. Are these people brain dead??? They do not want to ake out 99% of the oil because it would leave 1% so they just keep going leaving 100% in place.
CNN ought to do a show about that. So should Fox, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and PBS. Wouldn't it be nice if the media actually held the White House's feet to the fire. What if some reporter actually asked Robert Gibbs to explain why there needed to be a waiver request for Obama to waive the Jones Act. there is no such requirement in the statute. It is time to tell the bozos in the White House to cut the crap and clean up this mess!!!!!!
2 comments:
That Obama and his people are absolutely incompetent in their handling of the clean-up, is indisputable. If you want to criticize CNN for not emphasizing the incompetence and the options not being utilized, I'm with you. But I can't agree with your dumping on CNN for giving up 2 hours of commercials to raise funds for people in need.
If CNN were to have a telethon to help cancer victims, would you criticize them because they're not going against bureaucracy and incompetence in cancer research and treatment or exposing the insufficiency of government funding?
The truth is that there is much that CNN and the other MSM should be doing better, differently and more of, and it's all worthy of criticism. But when any network gives up time to raise money for people in need, you should cheer them on. I know that I do.
Sorry, but I do not agree. CNN is doing a feel good number with its telethon. What will a few million dollars really do? Not much. Were CNN to push relentlessly on the incompetence of the cleanup efforts of the Obamacrats, however, it might have a salutary effect. A telethon for cncer research is not the same thing. If it could be exposed that the cancer research run by the government was incompetent and ineffective, then maybe there would be a parallel, but absent that, they are just not the same.
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