GOP congressional candidate: The federal government and BP colluded to spill oil in the Gulf

[RedEarth]

Shortly after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded, disgraced FEMA director Michael Brown went on Fox News and claimed that the Obama administration wanted the devastating oil spill as an excuse to backtrack on its offshore drilling plan. Around the same time, Rush Limbaugh unleashed a conspiracy theory suggesting that someone intentionally blew up the rig in order to “head off more oil drilling.” After widespread mockery and criticism, these types of oil spill truthers have largely gone quiet. Now, however, Bill Randall, who’s competing to be the GOP nominee in a congressional race in North Carolina and identifies with the Tea Party movement, is going even further by saying that the federal government and BP worked together to spill oil:

“Now, I’m not necessarily a conspiracy person, but I don’t think enough investigation has been done on this,” Randall said at a media conference on Tuesday. “Someone needs to be digging into that situation. Personally, and this is purely speculative on my part and not based on any fact, but personally I feel there is a possibility that there was some sort of collusion. I don’t know how or why, but in that situation, if you have someone from a company violating a safety process and the government signing off on it, excuse me, maybe they wanted it to leak.

“But then it got beyond what was anticipated, and we had an explosion and loss of life. And, oh man, then we have panic. Is there a cover up going on? I’m not saying there necessarily is. But I think there’s enough facts on the table for people that (they) really need to do some investigative research and find out what went on with that and get a subpoena of records and everything else.”


http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/16/randall-oil-conspiracy/

[gratuitous]

1. "I'm not necessarily a conspiracy person"

Oh look, the Crazy Train is pulling into the station!

[blogslut]

2. "Now, I’m not necessarily a conspiracy person..."

Bwahahahahahaha!

[Richardo]

3. ...and the hits just keep on comin'!

:rofl:

You GOP guys are killing me! :rofl:

[WeDidIt]

4. Wow, I have watched the birth of the 421 Troofers

:rofl:

[tridim]

5. Randall doesn't do Occam's razor.

Keep talking Repukes.

[spanone]

6. the federal govt, meaning dick cheney

[Laelth]

7. He's right about the cover-up, I think.

But to suggest that the government and BP wanted this spill to happen is ludicrous.

:dem:

-Laelth

[Raine1967]

8. Hold up, this part:

if you have someone from a company violating a safety process and the government signing off on it, excuse me, maybe they wanted it to leak.


Is he Accusing the BUsh Administration??? :rofl: Glad Dick Cheney is back Stateside, we should ask him about that.

[LynneSin]

9. I'd almost believe it but it was the Bush Regime not Obama

nuff said

[county worker]

10. In a way he is right if you think Cheney had anything to do with weakening regulations and

the MMA. They just didn't count on this big of a fuck up or did they?

[Tansy_Gold]

11. HE'S ABSOLUTELY CORRECT

". . . not based on any fact. . . ."


Well, at least THAT much is correct. . ...


TG

[Urban Prairie]

12. "Someone needs to be digging into that situation"

So drop out of the race, Billy, get your shovel out, roll up your sleeves, and start digging. In fact you can probably start digging right away on some of the already crude oil polluted shores of the GOM. Who knows what kind of evidence you might uncover!!! :silly: