tolerance. they re the best of breed. they re exactly what we want in the islamic community in america. my theory is they gave us all something to argue about and that s the staple of american. the bp oil spill. it became an enormous story, no question, but it came sort of a cable extravaganza, day 62, the spill cam. looking back at the damage that was done, was that kind of hyped to some degree? i thought it needed that. this was the biggest oil spill in american history. it s funny, you make it sound like the hostage crisis back when i was a little kid, counting off the days, but i was one of the guys that was talking about that all the time because it got you i mean, at a number of really important issues very quickly. one is the complete collapse of the regulatory state. yes. and president obama s utter failure to address that issue. that was the important story that did not get covered before this bill, before the mining disast disaster, one of my great criticisms of t
that s almost destroyed the entire world cup. arbitrary blowing of horns for no apparent reason and it s very annoying. even the it makes me long for the the kazoo. that makes more sense. they actually banned it from future world cups. they used it at the high school next to my house. i d move. and number 1 spill cam. badly. we remember that from the big oil spill. but you know what, guys? that s a really important number one. had it not been for that spill cam, we would have had a totally different conclusion, i think to that whole oil spill because the world could watch what was going on. you re right. based upon the spill cam and they didn t like it. right. figure out how much oil is actually coming out. that s not 5 gallons a minute. that looks more than that. meanwhile at 12 minutes after the top of the hour, here s what we have coming your way. he took our country to war to
you didn t hear what i read earlier. bp gushing oil from an underwater camera, democrats celebrated that as a victory for public accountability. but it was actually a painful defeat for obama, the camera produced an indelible image that highlighted how ineffectual obama was for two months in stopping this catastrophe. do you agree with that assessment? i do not agree with that assessment. i forced bp to put up the spill cam so that bp could not continue to hide behind the low balling of this problem, that they had been engaging in up until that point, in fact the president, detailed not just admiral allen, but also the secretary of energy, steven shoe, marsha mcnut who runs the united states geological service to come in and see that bp did not have autonomy in making
ramifications of that were? in other words, did having that imagery available to so many americans on a daily basis 24/7 have some blowback effect on the administration? well, i think the first impact was it forced bp to either stop lying or being grossly incompetent that the spill was not 1,000 barrels per day or 5,000 barrels per day. it made it very obvious from that point on that trusting bp to make decisions alone was really not well placed. and so i think the spill cam had the impact of bringing in top scientists, taking awayç discretion from bp, having the obama administration and its toch sitop scientists and other come in to help construct this plan which hopefully will work. i think if we are successful, we all have our fingers crossed
camera. democrats celebrate that had as a victory for public accountability, but it was actually a painful defeat for obama. the camera produced an indelible image played 24/7 on cable that highlighted hue ineffectual obama was for two months in stopping this catastrophe. do you agree with that assessment? i do not agree with that assessment. i forced bp to put up the spill cam so that bp could not continue to hide behind the low balling of this problem that they had been engaging in up to this point. in fact, the president detailed not just admiral allen but also the secretary of energy, steven chu, marcia mcnutt who runs the geological service, to make sure that bp did not have autonomy in making the decisions. it was their equipment that we needed to solve the problem but the discretion could no longer be left with them. i think the president did act as the commander in chief here but