The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is becoming worse by the day, with over 200,000 gallons of crude a day. Attorney Brian Barr appears on Fox Business Channel’s Happy Hour to talk about the pending litigation against B.P. as a result of their negligence in this matter.
Farron, is Brian Barr a colleague of Mike Papantonio? I’ve never seen him here before on the ROFR website.
Anyway, like Bill Maher was saying last night on HBO, we should’ve gotten of our dependency of oil sometime in the 1970′s – before I was born. But, in terms of oil, nothing has really changed and I am all too familiar with it, which wouldn’t happen where I could’ve been less familiar of it if there were cleaner energy policies. Too bad my life started out with Reagan as president, instead of possibly Ted Kennedy. But, oil is NO nostalgia as it really SHOULD be.
Too bad our lives rely and revolve around so much on corporations which we roughly assume are safe, but they’re apparently not due to how badly deregulated they’ve been for the past 10-30 years. I remember that one episode on the Simpsons where Marge says, “it’s designed by a corporation so you KNOW it is safe.” HA HA HA!
It just seems that with corporations and the wealthy they seem to have a thirst for nostalgia by keeping everything the same, despite the wake-up calls of gas shortages, terrorist attacks, and the suffering of the middle/working class.
Well, so far as I can tell, both Aaron Waton (the attorney for the taser abuses interview) and Brian Barr seem to be connected to Levin Papantonio (an easy google search), and I must say:
That firm is Really filled talented people, apparently!!!! I LIKE these guys!!! They know what the H#ll they are talking about, pardon my language.
I hope Mike is not going to do a disappearing act, too much, though.
Still, it’s GREAT to hear new voices when they come from attorneys who are doing such a Wonderful Job of going after all the corrupt bastards in this beleaguered world!!!
And THEN there’s Eric. Of Fox.
My god. Was he….ON something? I have Never seen him so discombobulated and….Angry!!!
It’s like he didn’t know what to do w/Brian Barr, and kept expecting Mike’s fiery style to come through, but, obviously, Brian Barr is a little bit different than Mike, style-wise, and that’s Okay!!!!
You know why? Because Brian Barr made Eric look like a Damn Fool!!!!
C’mon, Eric, I can Tell that you are not so stupid, but you keep shilling those dumb-a$$ talking points so beloved of Fox viewers!!!!
Everything Eric said was Absurd and Mr. Barr just took it all apart, and it looked like child’s play, and in a way, it IS!
What is So hard to understand, Eric? We only have LIMITED oil and when That is used up, we are Completely Dependent on Foreign Oil.
Eric was just being diversionary, imo. He doesn’t like that a big, terrible Oil Spill has occurred, because it makes offshore drilling look…..so very messy and horrible and wretched.
Which Brian Barr did not shirk to point out to Eric.
Eric needs to calm down and admit that he is on the stupid side of things.
(I like Aaron Watson’s and Brian Barr’s accents, too)!
All and all a Very Good show!!!! Eric was put in his place, and he didn’t like it. Too bad!!!
Eric….shut up and you’re full of shit!!!!
The bottom line is this Eric is like these all these other stupid right wingers who think that access to this country’s oil supply will solve our Middle East oil dependency, refusing to listen to the reality that there just isn’t that much there. But that’s not what they want to hear.
The reality is once we use up all we’ve got, then the OPEC countries can really hold a gun to our head if we maintain our dependency on fossil fuels.
Bill Maher is right….we should’ve ended our dependence on oil long ago. That was the point Mr. Barr was trying to get through Eric’s thick skull but that isn’t FOX noise style.
According to some reports, there was some sort of switch mechanism that could have turn off the oil; however, the American oil companies fought against it. The same reports state the the European oil companies have the switch mechanism and they have not gone out of business because they had to spend a few more dollars for it.
We should start harnessing the wind power that is blowing through the various Midwestern states like in the North and South Dakota. I understand it is the great concentration of wind power in the USA if not in the world.
Brian display a cool, calm demeanor personality. If the USA does open up all the oil reserves, then we should use the money made off the oil to alternative fuel programs and to pay off the national debt. Norway is doing that with the money with its oil reserves.
Eric couldn’t bait Brian into degenerate political drivel with his alarming tic, “whoyoumadat Brian, whoyoumadat Brian?” The invitation to come back and finish the “debate” was an equally absurd rejoinder. What debate? Eric got caught in the riptide trying unsuccessfully to turn the disaster boat toward the “drill-baby-drill” shore. Good luck selling that, FOX! But Brian simply didn’t let him. Good lawyer. Fox’s “Happy Hour” – a god-awful place where no one ever seems happy.
Additional offshore drilling will provide 1.2% of the oil we use every day if we don’t increase consumption and we’re willing to wait 20 years. Wow, what a great idea!
BP is a foreign oil producer profiting off of our resources. Our offshore oil is still foreign oil to us! If we must drill our land and water we should demand that we nationalize the resource, keep the profits here at home, and spend them wisely to make drilling SAFE!
But screw that… time for green energy anyway.
Dirty energy has killed 41 people in 2 mining disasters and an oil-rig explosion – all due to ignoring safety precautions. How many more have died of black lung disease, cancer and all manner of poisonings? How many more killed in oil wars?
The battle cry should be: Dirty Energy = Blood Money!
Wall Street sells a barrel of oil up to 30 times before we fill up our gas tanks and heat our homes. They don’t ship it or refine it. They bring it to market, the stock market that is – so we can be assured the price we pay consuming oil is as high as the market will bear. Dirty Energy and Wall Street don’t want cheap, clean “FREE” energy. Their lobbyists have bought the system to keep alternative energy dormant, crawling… At a time when the country is starved for employment!
The battle cry should be: Dirty Energy = No Green Jobs!
I’d throw in the bit about global warming but they’ll only listen when they’re either underwater or trying to drink a cup of sand in some parched hellhole like… Arizona!
Correction – Dirty energy has killed 41 people in 2 mining disasters and an oil-rig explosion – all due to ignoring safety precautions – IN THE MONTH OF APRIL!
Flick,
Excellent points! All this horrible stuff happened in one month!!! What’s next?! As I said on the previous thread—we will be living/experiencing the Bush/Cheney legacy for years to come. Notice all this talk of “Green Jobs” but we never see them…..that’s because of this country’s rampant greed!
G,
There is no reason this country can’t get going with wind power. Instead, we shipped that and the possibility of jobs to China. As Bobby said in a recent podcast….”China is building the wind turbines and the USA is going to buy the tirbines FROM China! Good grief! WTF!!!
In April 1917, the British lost over 200 aircraft to the German Air Service. If the our airlines had a lot of aircraft crashes due to their failure to maintain safety and maintenance standards in April of whatever year, then we would have our own version of Bloody April 1917.
Colleen writes: “Eric….shut up and you’re full of shit!!!!”
(RIGHT ON, Colleen!!!! I LOVE how you just cut to jugular, immediately)!!!!
G writes: “The same reports state the the European oil companies have the switch mechanism and they have not gone out of business because they had to spend a few more dollars for it.”
(The irony of it all, G, is that, as Mike – I think it was Mike, but it might have been Brian Barr, or Also Brian – mentions, in the other Fox segment, BP had to use that switch when in Norway – but NOT here, in the USA!!!! What the F%$ck is up w/that)????
G writes: “Brian display a cool, calm demeanor personality.”
(He DID, G, but also displayed appropriate firmness w/Eric’s weaselly ways!!!! Brian Barr is also Very cute, I cannot Help but notice, so if he’s on Fox again, I can’t say that I will be unduly upset by this fact)!!!
Flick writes: “Eric couldn’t bait Brian into degenerate political drivel with his alarming tic, “whoyoumadat Brian, whoyoumadat Brian?” The invitation to come back and finish the “debate” was an equally absurd rejoinder. What debate? Eric got caught in the riptide trying unsuccessfully to turn the disaster boat toward the “drill-baby-drill” shore. Good luck selling that, FOX! But Brian simply didn’t let him. Good lawyer. Fox’s “Happy Hour” – a god-awful place where no one ever seems happy.”
I thought that was Briliant analysis of the whole thing, Flick, and I also appreciate your other comments on what offshore drilling for oil really means, to this country. It’s not the bargain or panacea that Eric and other right wingers make it out to be!!!
Flick writes: ” Fox’s “Happy Hour” – a god-awful place where no one ever seems happy.”
(So true, Flick, no one on Fox Ever seems particularly Happy, even during the “Happy Hour” show, but: as Colleen has pointed out, more than once, those Foxian Twits often Do seem rather Smashed, so it’s all Good, I guess)!!!!
I agreed on Flick’s analysis. Next time some cop states he is laying his/her butt on the line, point out the workers in the coal mines, oil fields (land and sea) and any occuptation who lay on their lives on the line because they don’t know if their day will be the very last one.