VIDEO COMPILATION: Conservative Pundits Rush To Defend Barton, Praise Him As Courageous

[kpete]

Run time: 02:09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu2lvAm-Zuc   Posted on YouTube: June 18, 2010 By YouTube Member: ThinkProgress2 Views on YouTube: 5   Posted on DU: June 18, 2010 By DU Member: kpete Views on DU: 792

 
– PAT BUCHANAN: “Barton made a very courageous statement in my judgment. … To have anyone stand up and even indirectly defend and say that they were a victim of a shakedown shows some political courage.”

– INGRAHAM: “I think Joe Barton, before he apologized, had a legitimate point.”

– NAPOLITANO: “That is a classic shakedown. The threat to do something that you don’t have the authority to do. ”

– KILMEADE: “One Congressman calling the BP compsensation fund a ’shakedown,’ but does he have a point?”

– GINGRICH: “The president is directly engaged in extorting money from a company.”

– VARNEY: “It is Hugo Chavez-like, is it not? To sieze a private company’s assets.”

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[husky92]

1. Boy, what a shocker!

These son of a bitches never learn...when will our damned country gather their senses and realize the right wing could give a rat's ass about them...here you have a catastrophe going on which will impact thousands of lives and OUR President put the hammer down to get money and these ass holes accuse him of having a "slush fund"...Don't these asses know it will be run by an independent authority...If the Bush-Cheney crew did this they'd be calling it a brilliant move, but we know that would not happen because they were in bed with big oil. When will the right give President Obama credit for anything. From Day One it's been on the attack bashing him about everything he's done. Unfortunately, they own people like Fox and several hundred radio shows which control the message. I'm sure the talking points went out to their water carriers as soon as all of this took place. There are so dumb asses in this country that believe this shit.

[sasquuatch55]

2. And the propaganda and mis information machine keeps on rolling over the bodies!

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