Media ALERT - 60 Minutes - Bush Enviro Cover-up

[AVID]

60 Minutes Will Expose Bush's Coverup of A Massive Toxic Spill

April 4, 2004 - 7PM East

"A government whistle-blower says the Bush administration covered up the reasons for a toxic coal slurry spill in Appalachia that ranks among the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Jack Spadaro political appointees whitewashed a report that said an energy company that had contributed to the Republican Party was responsible for the 300-million gallon spill. Simon's report will be broadcast on 60 Minutes, Sunday, April 4, at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Spadaro... played a key role in investigating the spill, which was 25 times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. 'It polluted 100 miles of streams, killing everything in the streams, all the way to the Ohio River... The Bush administration came in and the scope of our investigation was considerably shortened. I had never seen something so corrupt and lawless in my entire career...interference with a federal investigation of the most serious environmental disaster in the history of the Eastern US.' "

[dennis4868]

1. Chalk up....

another scandal that the mainstreem media will give 10 minutes of attention and then is just passed along....move on, nothing to see here...

[Redleg]

4. Sad to say you are probably right. The media has a short attention span..

.. and so do many Americans.

[Piperay]

7. Probably so but

if Kerry and the Democrats are smart they will use all this kind of information that the media has given them as ammunition to shoot down chimpy.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. But once again, thanks due to "Sixty Minutes," and CBS --

[Tatiana]

2. NM....

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/01/60minutes/main609889.shtml

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Spadaro was until recently the head of the National Mine Health and Safety Academy and played a key role in investigating the spill, which was 25 times the size of the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska.

"It polluted 100 miles of streams, killing everything in the streams, all the way to the Ohio River," says Spadaro of the October 2000 spill that affected West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky.

"The Bush administration came in and the scope of our investigation was considerably shortened. I had never seen something so corrupt and lawless in my entire career...interference with a federal investigation of the most serious environmental disaster in the history of the Eastern United States."

more....

Wow... 60 minutes is really starting to go after this administration. Sounds like this could be another big one.

[FrankBooth]

3. How soon ...

... until they start blaming Clinton's penis?

[Imalittleteapot]

5. Republican mate watches 60 Minutes.

Yet another program to enforce his distrust of "his President".
He saw the Bill Moyers John Dean interview last night and agreed with Dean that the Bush lies are an impeachable offense. The sky must be falling.

[WildClarySage]

6. Massey Coal

has one of the worst records in WV for environmental and union abuses here. Of course, the local stations air their ads showing peaceful streams touting "reclaimation" and how much better off we'll all be when all the mountains have been subjected to mountaintop removal and reclaimation. Meantime, there are people whose homes have completely lost value because of the pollution and there's nobody to clean it up or care that their children are drinking from contaminated wells. It's just shameful. I don't know how they sleep at night, I really don't.

[napi21]

9. Media might not keet it alive too long, but 60 Mins has

a hugh following. I don't know the stats, but a long time ago, a company I worked for was in the same market as one that 60 Mins was doing an expose on and we were SCARED SH**less!!! It turned out our co wans't part of their story and all breathed a big sigh.

This can do nothing less than put Bushco on Prozac!!!!

What's happening with 60 mins? Richard Clarke and now Spadaro??

I must admit, I'm a bit surprised....and VERY HAPPY!!!