In this case I'm quite confident he was bona fide, although I can't prove it. And while he did directly confront the governor, he didn't accuse him directly of responsibility. He raised the issue of why the men were let back in the mine, without accusing anyone in specific of being to blame.
He actually seemed fairly reasonable, and it seemed to me that it was not a staged media stunt or exploitation. Just my gut instinct.
Hannity had the representative of a mine-safety trade publication on his radio show yesterday and she sounded like she was very knowledgeable. She noted all the violations that this mine had, and said that this mine's violations history far outpaced the sum total of all mine violations in the state of Alabama, for example.
She added that mine operators who are in full compliance should "never" have an accident like this one. She clearly laid the blame at the mine operator's feet, agreeing with Hannity that it "sounded like somebody was cutting corners". She, too, questioned why the mine was allowed to continue to operate, but I never got a clear understanding of who has the ultimate resposibility for that kind of enforcement.
Look for it to be Bush's fault.