“I think I recall Rush saying early on in this disaster that nature would deal with this spill in its own way, and he was excoriated for it. Evidently, Rush was right again.” ~ rightwingintelligentsia
Let’s rehearse it, shall we?:
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April 29, 2010 RUSH: Our official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer has just sent me something. I’ve been wondering about this. He must have been reading my mind. We’ve got 5,000 barrels a day being spilled from the rig, and Dr. Spencer looked into it. You know, we’ve talked of this before. There’s natural seepage into oceans all over the world from the ocean floor of oil and the ocean’s pretty tough, it just eats it up. Dr. Spencer looked into this. You know the seepage from the floor of the Gulf is exactly 5,000 barrels a day, throughout the whole Gulf of Mexico now. It doesn’t seep out all in one giant blob like this thing has, but the bottom line here is: Even places that have been devastated by oil slicks like... What was that place up in Alaska where the guy was drunk, ran a boat aground? (interruption) Prince William Sound. They were wiping off the rocks with Dawn dishwater detergent and paper towels and so forth. The place is pristine now.
You do survive these things. I’m not advocating don’t care about it hitting the shore or coast and whatever you can do to keep it out of there is fine and dandy, but the ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and was left out there. It’s natural. It’s as natural as the ocean water is. (interruption) Well, the turtles may take a hit for a while, but so what? So do we! Hell, remember that story we had at the beginning of the show: The barred owl that flew into the windshield of the Wentzville, Missouri, fire truck, and they got to the fire and the thing was still hanging on out there. It had a broken wing and they took it to some animal veterinary sanctuary or hospital or something. Just give it a pain pill! Why not? That’s what they had for us, and we don’t even launch ourselves into the windshields of fire trucks
[...] Here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=102#102
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05/13/2010 RUSH: How many weeks have we been waiting for the entire southern coast and the East Coast of Florida to be drenched in oil? We’re supposed to by now have seen thousands of dead birds and pelicans, all of it covered in black gold, and so far, so far it’s not an event. I know it still could be, and I know the media is hoping it still will be, but it isn’t yet. I mean there’s one dead dolphin, they found some sea turtles, but they don’t know why. We don’t have dead birds yet. We don’t have any of that. Now they’re talking about it going to Texas. ....
Oil naturally seeps int the gulf all the time. Check this photo out, by NASA form May 13, 2006! The streaks you see are NATURAL OIL SLICKS...........
[....] Commentary and photos here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=119#119
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04/30/2010: RUSH: Halliburton poured the cement. You wait, Halliburton’s going to be brought up to Washington for show trials. Democrats have wanted that since the Iraq war. If they can blame this on Halliburton (laughing) and say that Cheney somehow approved the project, even as an ex-CEO, oh-ho-ho, they may not even need Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
[...] Here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=82#82
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05/03/2010 Rush on the timeline:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=93#93
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“This was a problem we ran into with Ixtoc, we never found the oil,” McKinney said.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=139#139
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Madcap environmentalism is partially to blame for the massive oil spill in the Gulf. ~ Dr. Zero
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=104#104
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Lots more in this thread:
‘Obama’s Katrina’: an Illustrated Timeline
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts