Before Meltdown, GOP Mocked Concerns About Nuclear Safety

[kpete]

Run time: 01:25 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIWUn6vyj8M   Posted on YouTube: March 15, 2011 By YouTube Member: OfficialThinkProgres Views on YouTube: 10   Posted on DU: March 16, 2011 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 2059

 
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/15/video-gop-nuclear-safety/

[ljm2002]

1. Yes, Senator McCain, obviously "no one ever anticipated"...

...such an event "outside of science fiction movies".

Well, except for all of the thousands upon thousands of activists and concerned citizens over the years who have tried to point out that the worst case scenario is really, really, really bad. It doesn't just kill a bunch of people right away, but it continues killing them (not just people, but animals too), and affects the environment for thousands of years.

heh heh

smirk

ya, that's funny

[DCKit]

4. Yeah, I got to give a lecture on Sunday.

A friend in his 70's insisted that a "meltdown" is/was a Hollywood construct.

The propagandists have been very busy.

[inademv]

6. The Gulf is still dead

Just a reminder that there has been exponentially more environmental damage from oil and coal power operations.

[Control-Z]

10. Oh! You're right. So then, nuclear

power really IS safe!! I guess I just had to hear it from a POV like yours to understand. Silly me.

[inademv]

14. It's safe by comparison

Remind me, which one stripped the trees from the top of most southern Canadian mountains? Which power source killed a wide swath of Alaska's shoreline? Which power source is contributing to what could very well be the event(climate change) catalyzing the downfall of our civilization?

[Charleston Chew]

15. progressive?

You're on as if the only choices are fossil or nuclear. There are other options.

[inademv]

17. Renewable energy doesn't fit the bill

with current electricity storage and transmission technology, it also does not provide for minimum baseload needs. I look forward to the day when it is viable but it just isn't right now and we're quickly running out of time to slow the damage we're doing to the environment.

[chervilant]

16. Wow...

So, the fact that oil and coal have created 'exponentially more environmental damage' somehow mitigates the damage done by these nuclear power plants?!?

Sigh...

I've been an anti-nuclear activist since I was 16, and I am now 55. I remain convinced that we humans CAN conceive of and create clean energy technology. However, the Corporatists who make their biggest profits from oil, coal, and nuclear industries--and the pathetic, easily-manipulated people who carry their water--ridicule me and other activists like me, then spend millions of dollars to convince their sycophants that we're the leftist 'loons.' How 'richly' ironic!

I think the corporatists who've made the MOST profits from nuclear power should be the ones who have to go in there and clean up the mess...

[inademv]

18. All 3 messes

I question the conviction of any anti-nuclear activist that isn't anti-oil and anti-coal as well.

[chervilant]

19. Yeah, well...

I didn't think I had to mention that I'm anti all forms of power that are polluting our globe AND sustaining radical income inequity. Nuclear power became my focus in my early activism because the corporatists were pushing to build more plants, and we activists wanted to -- and did -- stop them.

I hope you are a fellow activist, and not a water carrier.

[inademv]

20. If you're anti-pollution then why aren't you protesting

the dozens of major oil spills that happen every year. Why aren't you protesting in upstate New York where they can light their tap water on fire because of the natural gas mining. Why is your focus a form of energy that is less disruptive than coal, responsible for the acid rains that have stripped the flora from the tops of Canadian mountains?

Honestly, of all the things you could protest it seems that nuclear would be so much lower on your priority list if your concern was protecting the environment.

[chervilant]

22. Sigh...

Why do you assume that you know what I am and am not protesting? You haven't a clue, and you seem bent on being argumentative--bad combo, and quite unproductive.

Welcome to my ignore list, where you'll no longer be a waste of my time.

[RandySF]

2. "No one ever anticipated"

Where did I hear that before?

[Charleston Chew]

5. that does sound familiar

'No One Could Have Anticipated' Terrorists Flying Planes Into Buildings'


except maybe Chris Carter

[Devil_Fish]

25. No one could have anticipated the levees in New Orleans would be breached. NT

[DCKit]

3. Will they walk it back, or just refuse to admit to ever having made these statements?

Either way, we probably won't have to hear them spewing Nnewcuelur ignorance for some time. Maybe the adults (and a couple of genuine scientists) will pick up the slack and we'll have an honest conversation about all things energy, for a change.

[Charleston Chew]

7. with one 'S'

Laugh Out Loud @ "OfficialThinkProgres"

'Official' my ass.
Someone is up to shenanigans, but what is their motive?

[JJW]

8. Clarification?

At the end, is McCain talking about his VP vetting process and failed campaign?

[Swampguana]

9. Unfortunately

most people won't remember all of what they said before about nuclear safety. They themselves probably don't remember.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

11. Who could ever have imagined a nuclear (sorry- nukuler) power plant melting down?

Maybe ask the Russians?

[fascisthunter]

12. fucking pieces of shit... everyone of them

[20score]

13. There is no way to anticipate the obvious!

That is proven every time the inevitable happens.

[Patchuli]

21. I don't care for Pres Obama but the alternative?

SUCKED!

[chervilant]

23. Yeah,

I'm sure those mockers are laying low now...

[democracy1st]

24. kick