CEO of Murray Energy (mine collapse) bashes global warming discussion at presser

[pinto]

while families remain unclear if their loved ones are alive. WTF?

Sounds like a campaign speech. What an incredible lack of tact or sensitivity.

(CNN is covering the press briefing)

[underpants]

1. Not a surprise-Coal has to try to keep its dirty industry alive

The truth and time are not on his side in this.

[TheWebHead]

2. only in Utah could there be a press conference like this

I sympathize with the guy's stress right now, but this guy reminds me of the judge in the Anna Nicole case. It might be best if he hires a PR expert to handle the press from now on.

[oldtime dfl_er]

3. He's lying through his teeth

about pretty much everything.

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/1474370

[malaise]

4. This is mind blowing

seriously.

[Graybeard]

5. Now he is bashing the miners union and the press!

Calls the union liars, accuses AP of false reporting. This guy needs to be told that he is making a fool of himself. Bat-shit crazy!!

[global1]

7. He Bashed Fox News As Well - He Can't Be All Bad.......nt

[Beelzebud]

15. The only problem with that is he bashed them for actually telling the truth.

[spinbaby]

16. Good

Let him be bat-shit crazy. He needs to be seen for what he is.

[Beelzebud]

6. LOL He wants the media to "report the truth! As told by me and company managment." LOL

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. He's about to blow a gasket

He said the term "retreat mining" (where there are no supports brought into the mine to prop up the roof and walls, but that the coal itself is stacked to create pillars) was invented by the United Mine Workers. Then he said there's no "retreat mining" being engaged in inside his mine. But after that, he said the coal "pillars" (which could only refer to retreat mining) were already in place when the accident happened. He's accusing the UMW of inventing the term, but then he admits it was being done in his mine. Incredible.

This guy is the poster boy for the ugly lying Capitalist exploiter.

[TahitiNut]

9. (1) He hates unions. (2) He wants people to think seismometers are precise.

(3) He has more than a tiny amount of megalomania ... and Nixonian levels of paranoia.

IMHO. YMMV.

[Bitwit1234]

10. What has global warming have to do with an earthquake that

cause this mine accident.

[Garbo 2004]

11. There wasn't an earthquake...it was the collapse that registered on the seismographs. n/t

[Flubadubya]

12. Pretty damned sad when a terrible life & death fuckup at YOUR company...

provides YOU an opportunistic segue into a right-wing rant to spew your political talking points. Talk about "coaled". :scared: :puke:

[acmavm]

13. What is it with mine owners. Remember Sago? These baracles

on the butt of humanity need to be sealed in one of their 'safe' mines.

[Major Hogwash]

14. Well, it's in Utah for chrissakes, figure it out.

They couldn't care less about the environment in Utah.

Geez, they had a nerve gas leak there almost 40 years ago and killed hundreds of sheep and yet you barely heard a peep about it on the news.

The Goshute Indian Skull Valley reservation has been used as a dumping ground for nuclear waste for the last several years.