Brit Hume Mocks Oilpocalypse: 'Where's The Oil?'

[DearAbby]

Run time: 01:20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpSi9Bqufq4   Posted on YouTube: May 16, 2010 By YouTube Member: climatebrad Views on YouTube: 3627   Posted on DU: May 18, 2010 By DU Member: DearAbby Views on DU: 1969

 
JUAN WILLIAMS: First of all, don't you think, this spill now is going to be in excess of what happened with Exxon Valdez.


BRIT HUME: Let's see if that happens. There's a good question today if you are standing on the Gulf, and that is: Where is the oil?

WILLIAMS: Where is the oil?

HUME: It's not on -- except for little of chunks of it, you're not even seeing it on the shore yet.

WALLACE: But there are some new reports that there are greater amounts of it on the ocean floor.

HUME: Oh, yes, that's true. But you know where the greatest source of oil that seeps into the ocean is? It's from natural seepage from sub-terreanean deposits. That's where most of it comes from, not from drilling accidents. So what's badly needed here is on our energy policy, and also on the realities of what really goes on when it comes to oil spillage.

WILLIAMS: But I think it will damage the environment in the gulf and damage tourism and damage fishing. I don't think there's any question this is in excess of anything we've previously asked the ocean to absorb.


HUME: We'll see if it is. We'll see if it is. The ocean absorbs a lot, Juan, an awful lot. The ocean absorbs a lot.

WILLIAMS: I think Rush Limbaugh went down this road, "The ocean can handle it." I think we have to take some responsibility for the environment and be responsible to people who live in the area, vacation in that area, fish in that area. It's just wrong to think, "You know what? Dump it on the ocean and let the ocean handle it."

HUME: Who said that? Who is saying that? No one's making that argument.

[Devil_Fish]

1. This clip made me barf.

:puke:

[Angry Dragon]

2. Brit hume is a rush limbaugh clone

this man just talks trash. What happens to these people?? I used to like him many years ago.

Do these people swallow large bottles of stupid pills every day??


Where is the proof that oil seeps from the ground and the sea beds??

[bulloney]

21. Brit Hume always looks like someone in need of a good laxative.

What an ugly puss!

[Francisco]

3. Wow

speechless

[protocol rv]

5. Britt Hume made some good points

I don't like the guy, but he did make some good points. Where's the oil? The statement about this being the worst incident ever isn't even close. At the current rate, the well will have to dump oil in the water for 200 days before it approaches the Exxon Valdez volumes.

I think there's a lot of hype and overdrive baloney being said.

[Francisco]

13. wheres the oil?

seriously? lol!!

[caledesi]

16. Where is the oil??? Did u see Juan's face?

Hume - you look like the LIAR that you are!

[bigpenguin]

18. "At the current rate"

At the current rate...

That is being reported. It's already past that, for f's sake!

[dotymed]

23. rv, you make your propaganda more apparent

with each post. You don't know anything about the toxic dispersants BP is using to keep the oil off the surface? You know everything, including the Fact that this "spill" has already surpassed the Valdez' contamination. Go back to freeperville, your bullshit is old hat.:boring:
Three days ago, you were a Venezuelan living under tyrannical Chavez.
You are just a lying P.O.S.:freak:

[Angry Dragon]

28. You can look at the under water video

and see it is putting out a lot more oil than bp is saying

[troubledamerican]

4. Yet no liberals will remember to shove this in right-wingers faces in 3 months

when the spill has devastated the Keys, the Gulf Coast, and livelihoods across the Southeast.

Because liberals are like that. Short memory for trash like Brit Hume.

Did you know Brit Hume's son committed suicide? Liberals hate to draw connections there, too.

[Alcibiades]

7. As in it's what finally made him go apeshit crazy?

As opposed to the vanilla version of crazy he had been up to that point?

[troubledamerican]

10. No, as in having a parent like Brit will drive you to despair

Imagine being raised by Brit Hume.

[Alcibiades]

22. Maybe both are true

Brit's sure gone off the deep end for the last decade or so.

[protocol rv]

8. Sounds like a lot of hype

The oil well will be capped in three months. And I bet there won't be that much environmental damage. it's all propaganda by people who don't understand the way it works.

[troubledamerican]

11. Hi Brit. What an honor.

[rasputin1952]

6. Why don't people just say the obvious...

"Mr. Hume, you are an idiot."

[happygoluckytoyou]

9. i dont think the spill really happened... it's a liberalityism thing like that global climate change

[dotymed]

25. no doubt, "rv" agrees with that.

These idiot, liars make me sick.:puke:
I realize you were being sarcastic happy, unfortunately, "protocol rv", the "repressed Venezuelan", lol, hopes someone might actually believe it is just a liberal plot....

[Alcibiades]

12. OK, Brit, here you go

The oil. If you were any kind of actual journalist, instead of sitting behind a desk and asking "where's the oil," you might go and check to see if there was oil.

It's there. It will make landfall. When it does, you owe America an apology.

[fascisthunter]

14. Fox News...

for mental defects and mental midgets

[Voice for Peace]

15. I think Brit's got some oily dollars in his pockets.

Somebody's surely paying him to say that stuff.

[Yeahyeah]

17. Buttmunch Hall of Famer.

[jae1227]

19. Dumbass Alert!!!

Must have an IQ below 50 to understand this nonsense.

[florida08]

20. the natural seepage

is coming out of Brit's mouth.

Tar balls have washed ashore in Key West 3-8 inches wide. Once in the loop the oil could reach the shore in less than 20 days

[protocol rv]

26. Need to measure the chemical properties

Tar balls wash ashore all the time, some are from natural seeps, some are from oil tankers washing their tanks as they sail offshore. 99 % of tar balls are from oil tankers, and there is a lot of tanker traffic in the Florida straits.

[florida08]

30. tar balls wash ashore all the time?

Are you a runner for fake news. They do not wash ashore all the time. Have lived at the beach in many parts of Florida. Have seen land crabs, jellyfish and sand dollars but I have never seen tar balls!

[Flipper999]

24. I wonder what rules forces right wing pundits...

to force themselves to believe stupid shit. I'm sorry; there is no 'kind' way to put it.

"I personally haven't seen the oil on a beach along the Gulf. Thus, the oil is not a problem and will disappear on its own."

Just stupid.

[protocol rv]

27. it's a matter of degree

Evidently some oil has been found near the mouth of the Mississippi river. What I have observed is very minor amounts. It appears the oil spill volume is about 30 % of one tanker's capacity thus far, therefore it can be considered as if a tiny tanker had broken apart 40 miles from the coast.

The application of dispersants seems to encourage biodegradation, which means the bulk of the oil is either evaporating or is being consumed by bacteria. This leaves those ugly orange stains (thin oil layers being consumed by bacteria which in turn provide a ground for algae and other lifeforms to form mats). The oil the bacteria don't eat becomes the tar balls, but thus far Mr Hume seems to be right, there really hasn't been that much observed. I just saw on CNN a map of the oil slick, and other than the Mississippi river delta, there's no oil within 20 miles of a coast line.

[Hubert Flottz]

29. Shit Fume is helping the cascading erosion of FOX's credibility.

Not that there ever was any FOX credibility.

To me it's almost impossible to believe that people still tune in to FOX...but then I think about the stupidity level of a person who could have ever been conned into voting for George Bush and the picture clears up.