Shep and his gay lover...
Posted on 05/15/2010 7:05:16 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of Fox News' Shepard Smith yesterday giving a personal commentary at the end of his broadcast where he blasted BP Executive Tony Hayward for having said he expects lots of lawsuits against his company because "this is America - there will be frivolous lawsuits."
Smith launched into an indignant pounding of Hayward, for also having apparently said the oil leak in the Gulf is "a relatively small leak" compared to the amount of water in the Gulf.
"Mr. Hayward, that Gulf is the source of life for millions upon millions of people, and plants, and other creatures on this earth. Jobs are lost, beaches and birds are tarred, fisheries are closed, tourists are canceling, economies are threatened, and people from Florida to Texas are in some cases concerned for their very livelihoods, and you speak of 'comparative volume'?
Mr. Hayward, British Petroleum has caused the proud people of the Gulf Region great pain. If you think your statements on this subject are helping your company's cause - you are wrong. And if you think the people of the Gulf Region and the rest of America will take lying down without a fight a poorly handled aftermath of what your company has done to our Gulf and our people - you are horribly mistaken.
Our water is now polluted, our coast is now soiled, our fish and our turtles and our shrimp and our oysters are now harmed. Many of our people are now out of a job, and eleven hardworking men and wom -- men are dead from the explosion on the rig that carried your company's name. Remember that Mr. Hayward? We do. On your watch, these are extremely difficult times for us litigious Americans. At least act like you care."
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In spades, Keith. You are right.
Almost!
Shep needs his butt kicked. What a weasel. I have no idea why Fox keeps him.
It’s not even a big problem!
The Pacific coastal waters from Santa Barbara to Mexico dumped that juck daily for thousands of years until the drilled and relieved the gas pressure and it still boils up daily but not nearly as much.
In the 40s and early 50s there wasnp[t a beach south of Santa Barbara you couldn’t go on without getting coveered with tar.
It never hurt a thing except being messy.
What a disaster Shep is. Why does Fox keep him on? I refuse to watch him.
Not sure what law that is, but BP has been on the news saying that they will pay “all” claims, above and beyond the $75 million cap. Is that good for the stock holders?
LOL
Boy Shep.
I think Geraldo is his “job”....
Tony Hayward is correct.
Shepard Smith is a moron.
I tuned out FOX because of Shemp and his hysterical Katrina coverage. Just recently started watching again.
O'Blowhard is still on double-secret probation and his Kenyan "I'm-not-gonna-call-him-a-socialist" butt-kissing has just about pushed me away again.
I doubt it is good for BP stockholders—which I am one and many mutual funds own as well :(
Will do. I was just down in New Orleans last week and feel awful for you all who have been through so much in the past few years.
I actually am afraid that Shep’s rant may be correct, although I hope it’s an over-reaction. The $75M thing really makes me angry, and apparently one of the companies involved with the rig has been in Houston court trying to consolidate all individual claims so that they will all fall within that limit. In other words, all the fishermen, hotels, and other citizens of the Gulf Coast together would have to split a $75M judgment. I hope that would cover all the damages and destroyed livelihoods, but somehow I doubt it. ;(
Then drill off your coast. I swear, us Texans should charge a heavy tax on all crude oil you Californians suck up at will without producing your own damn energy...
california doean’t use any Texas oil, all the oil in the So. California refineries comes from California or Alaska.
I was wondering how big this oil spill was, so I put electrons to spreadsheet and came up with this:
There are 43,560 square feet in 1 acre.
1 cubic foot will hold 7.5 gallons.
Therefore, 1 acre of land, filled to a depth of 1 foot can hold about 319,000 gallons.
The highest estimate I have seen (so far) is 3.4 million gallons per day being leaked into the gulf. That means that 10.7 acres of land covered to a depth of 1 foot will contain all the oil that is leaked each day.
This has been going on for a little over a month now, so that’s a little over 320 acres. There are 640 acres in one square mile, so in one month, the leak can be contained by covering one half of a square mile to a depth of one foot.
The gulf covers a total of 615,000 square miles.
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