Olbermann: Another dangerous Bush crony at Utah mine rescue

[DeepModem Mom]

Raw Story: Olbermann: Another dangerous Bush crony at Utah mine rescue
David Edwards and Nick Juliano
Published: Friday August 17, 2007

The officials charged with protecting the safety of six Utah miners who have been trapped underground for more than 10 days "may have wound up only protecting the people who made money off their sweat," MSNBC host Keith Olbermann said Thursday night.

Olbermann's excoriation of mine-safety oversight came before news emerged that three rescue workers were killed and another six injured in a second cave-in. It remains unknown whether the initial six miners are alive or dead.

In Thursday night's broadcast of Countdown, Olbermann was sharply critical of Richard Stickler, head of the Mine Safety and Health Administration. Olbermann reminds viewers that Stickler, former mining company executive, has faced criticism in the past of overseeing mines with higher-than-average accident rates and ignoring problems that led to other disasters.

"When Mr. Bush nominated him for his current post," Olbermann says of Stickler, "he was opposed by the miner's union, the AFL-CIO, a Sago widow, eight out of nine Quecreek miners, Congressional Democrats and enough Republicans that Mr. Bush had to circumvent the Senate entirely to put Mr. Stickler into his current position last year as a recess appointment."...

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Olbermann_Another_dangerous_Bush_crony_at_0817.html

LINK TO "COUNTDOWN" VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjectL72n8k

[Nimrod2005]

1. Amen...nt

[C_U_L8R]

2. A second helping of Brownies

thanks for the help :sarcasm:

[Lint Head]

3. Where ever they go whatever they do death and killing follows.

This administration thinks everything is solved by killing people or putting people in danger. If you follow the trail of the their worldview that has been implemented the result is death. No health care = death. Iraq = death. No corporate regulations = death. Environmental devastation = death. Infrastructure degradation = death. No disaster relief (Katrina) = death. Torture = death.
New weapons = death. This list just scratches the surface. :dem: