June 15, 2010

NO, AL, YOU'RE JUST AN IDIOT

Al Gore:

These reports are deeply disturbing:

"When the operators of Southern Seaplane in Belle Chasse, La., called the local Coast Guard-Federal Aviation Administration command center for permission to fly over restricted airspace in Gulf of Mexico, they made what they thought was a simple and routine request."

"A pilot wanted to take a photographer from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans to snap photographs of the oil slicks blackening the water. The response from a BP contractor who answered the phone late last month at the command center was swift and absolute: Permission denied."

This behavior is completely unacceptable. Access by reporters should be as unfettered as possible. This de facto form of censorship needs to stop.

Here's the deal, Al. It's BP's mess and it's BP's responsibility to clean it up. If they don't want just any random yahoo to frolic around in it, I got no problem with that.

Also, if that plane crashes in the middle of the spill, someone would have to go into the middle of the spill to rescue his dumb ass. BP's got more important things to do than pull some moron out of the shit.

posted by Harvey on June 15, 2010 at 06:39 PM | Permalink | 0 Liars | TrackBack
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