Because I don't want to put my fist through my fine HD monitor, I rarely read what the readers of The Huffington Post have to say about any given story. But when the Obama fan 'zine/"news" website actually reported about the media blackout shrouding the BP oil spill, I was naturally curious. As I reported yesterday, even Obama darling Anderson Cooper is concerned that The First Amendment has been suspended concerning reportage of the disaster -- which means HuffPo couldn't ignore it any longer.
The site quotes Raw Story's Daniel Tencer and his latest article on new penalties for those who dare document the extent of the BP spill and the Obama Administration's ineffectual response to it. "Journalists who come too close to oil spill clean-up efforts without permission could find themselves facing a $40,000 fine and even one to five years in prison under a new rule instituted by the Coast Guard late last week," Tencer writes.
The Coast Guard order says vessels "must not come within 20 meters of booming operations, boom, or oil spill response operations under the penalty of law." The law would be funny if it wasn't so scary, which also can be said for HuffPo readers, who cannot bring themselves to lay any blame with the Obama Administration, despite the fact it's the boss of the Coast Guard. Instead, the readers, like all good progressives, focus their energies on the evil corporation, BP, treating the company as if it's an occupying army who's calling the shots.
The posts regarding the situation run the gamut from typically Lefty-flighty, hiding behind poetry...
"A single leaf travels down a turbulent stream from the recent heavy rain. Twisting and turning, bobbing and twirling, the little leaf makes its way out into a shallow pond where it rests being dried by the warm sun breaking through the storm clouds. A dragonfly lands on its surface and together they slowly drift in peaceful waters."
...to hysterically furious, like a four year-old flailing away ineffectually while his big brother's holding him by the forehead:
"How the hell can BP get away with these tactics? I said weeks ago that the CG was under the thumb of BP. How can this be allowed to happen? The Coast Guard and BP have the SAME PR AGENCY?! Why the hell does the CG need a PR AGENCY in the first place? This is outrageous. What, they don't want us to see the damn goop covering all of the sad and pathetic dying air & sea creatures lying on the beach in the throes of agony and death? Well, I don't want to see it anyway, but this is destruction of the highest magnitude and without serious reportage, too many people will forget all about this as they enjoy their Summer vacations and life goes on."
Both reactions have the same thing in common: they both ignore that Obama is naturally complicit in this absolute abortion of The Constitution. Because for the Libs to cop to this means they'd have to not only admit they backed the wrong horse, but that their vote helped set this disaster of both country and Constitution in motion.
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