Fox And Friends Pushes ‘Conspiracy Theory’ That Massive Oil Spill Was ‘Deliberate’ ‘Sabotage’

By Matt Corley

As the scale of the disaster caused by the explosion at an oil rig off the coast of Louisiana became more apparent last week, right-wing radio talker Rush Limbaugh unleashed a conspiracy theory suggesting that someone intentionally blew up the rig in order to “head off more oil drilling”:

LIMBAUGH: I want to get back to the timing of the blowing up, the explosion out there in the Gulf of Mexico of this oil rig….Now, lest we forget, ladies and gentlemen, the carbon tax bill, cap and trade that was scheduled to be announced on Earth Day. I remember that. And then it was postponed for a couple of days later after Earth Day, and then of course immigration has now moved in front of it. But this bill, the cap-and-trade bill, was strongly criticized by hardcore environmentalist wackos because it supposedly allowed more offshore drilling and nuclear plants, nuclear plant investment. So, since they’re sending SWAT teams down there, folks, since they’re sending SWAT teams to inspect the other rigs, what better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I’m just noting the timing here.

As part of their inquiry into the explosion, federal investigators are not ruling out any possible causes, including the possibility of criminal acts or negligence. But other than Limbaugh’s rant last week, oil spill truther theories initially appeared only on fringe websites. That is…until today.

On Fox and Friends this morning, former Bush Press Secretary Dana Perino said she was “not trying to introduce a conspiracy theory” before asking, “But was this deliberate?” “If there was sabotage involved,” wondered Perino. Later in this show, host Steve Doocy asked Fox Business’ Eric Bolling to respond to people who have suggested that “there’s a possibility this could be sabotage.” Citing Perino, Bolling engaged in conspiracy speculation:

BOLLING: The question is, and I saw Dana Perino earlier on the show saying, you know, what, why the delay in the response. You guys were pointing out, nine days before it’s even addressed. Twelve days before he made a formal comment. The question is did they let this thing leak? I mean, I know BP said 1,000 barrels a day went to 5,000. Did they let it leak a little bit and say, “boy I don’t know.” I mean, the conspiracy theorists would say, maybe they let it leak for a while and then they address the issue.

Host Gretchen Carlson called Bolling’s speculation “a humongous accusation.” He agreed, adding, “but if they’re going to try to pull drilling, that may be the way to do it.” Watch it:

In Louisiana yesterday, President Obama said, “BP is responsible for this leak — BP will be paying the bill.” BP America Inc. President Lamar McKay blamed the disaster on “a failed piece of equipment” in an interview with ABC News yesterday, adding that they “don’t know why it failed yet.” The disaster occurred as Halliburton was cementing the underwater oil well.

Former government employee Dana Perino doesn’t trust the government.

By Ben Armbruster

A recent Pew poll found that nearly 80 percent of Americans don’t trust the federal government and have little faith that it can solve the country’s problems, thus marking public confidence in the government at one of the lowest points in half a century. Last night on Fox News, host Greta Van Susteren asked former Bush administration White House Press Secretary Dana Perino about the poll. Perino, herself a former federal government employee, wondered what the other 20 percent of Americans polled in the Pew survey know that “the rest of us” do not:

PERINO: Well, I think it’s interesting that the 80 percent of the American people said they didn’t trust the government, and it sort of made me think, what do the other 20 percent know that the rest of us don’t know? Not a good number.

Watch it:

Perino later speculated that the massive discontent could be because of the rising deficits, which she said “this year alone higher than the last four years of the Bush administration combined.” She neglected to mention that her former boss is responsible for most of it.

M.C.L comment: This is a summary about how conservatives, right wingers and Republicans really feel about the government:

When you have a Democratic president and a Democratic house: Government is the greatest threat to mankind. Government can't do anything right and it's patroitic to be critical of the government.

When you have a Republican president and Republican house: How dare you criticized the government? Why do you hate America so much? How long have you and Osama Bin Laden been lovers?

Forgetting The Bush Record, Perino Criticizes Obama Administration For ‘Creating’ Their Own News

By Ben Armbruster

Last night on Fox News, former Bush White House press secretary Dana Perino criticized President Obama because he hasn’t held a “primetime” press conference since last July. “I don’t think that there’s any way…I would have gotten away with that with the White House press corps,” she complained.

Host Greta Van Susteren noted that last year, Obama actually conducted more one-on-one interviews that Bush or President Clinton had combined in the same time frame. But seeming to look for another line of attack, Perino pointed to a video the White House put out yesterday on the Travel Promotion Act and suggested that it indicated the administration is “repressive”:

PERINO: But there was an incident today where the President signed the Travel Promotion Act — not a huge bill by any stretch of the imagination. But usually, that is something that the White House press corps would get to cover. They didn’t today. And then later on in the day, the White House decided through its own media — they have a robust new media shop and they’re creating their own news and they’re posting it, and all the networks said that they’re not going to show it. But creating your own news is something that happens in repressive regimes. And a democracy is — it is critical to have a good, strong free press in a democracy.

Watch it:

Transparently posting news videos on the White House website is one thing; secretly producing “fake news” videos promoting an agenda and distributing them for local news broadcasts is quite another, which is exactly what the Bush administration did:

Under the Bush administration, the federal government has aggressively used a well-established tool of public relations: the prepackaged, ready-to-serve news report that major corporations have long distributed to TV stations to pitch everything from headache remedies to auto insurance. In all, at least 20 federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the Census Bureau, have made and distributed hundreds of television news segments in the past four years, records and interviews show. Many were subsequently broadcast on local stations across the country without any acknowledgement of the government’s role in their production.

In fact, the Government Accountability Office found that the Bush administration practice amounted to illegal “covert propaganda” — a ruling the Bush White House subsequently disregarded. The Bush team also famously paid conservative commentator Armstrong Williams to promote No Child Left Behind “on his nationally syndicated television show and to urge other black journalists to do the same.” The propaganda also spread abroad as well. The Bush Pentagon got caught planting positive coverage in Iraqi newspapers during the height of the insurgency.

Summing up “the heart of the Bush presidency,” journalist Ron Suskind reported that a senior Bush official once criticized him for living in “the reality-based community” after Suskind had written a piece critical of the administration. “That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” the official said. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality.”

By Perino’s standard, it seems the Bush administration constitutes a “repressive regime.”

M.C.L comment: Either Dana Perino is a well trained liar, really has a short termed memory or really stupid.. But I pick she's a really stupid well trained liar.