I take the blame. it s my responsibility, there has been a circle of wagons around this within the administration. and the story doesn t add up. i mean, the underlying story about who talked to whom between the white house and the agriculture department, and according to what shirley sherrod has told us doesn t seem to add up. david frum, do you agree with that? do you think it adds up? it looks like they panicked. it looks like they have some over-twitchy decision making and they don t seem to show the kind of loyalty that was often shown during the bush administration. we re rediscovering some of the merits of the management style of george w. bush, who did back his people, sometimes to a fault, but he did back them. i agree with you, anderson, about not making this a point about one faction or another. factionalism is the problem. we re at a time of tremendous economic strain for a lot of people. and they want answers, they want solutions and they
Sympathetic to what miss sherrod has gone through. notice the passive voice here, because his words, quote, they went after her and not the naacp. it s like the arsonist saying i m sorry, ma am, for the water damage caused by firefighters. he started the fire. black racism happening now at the usda and the naacp he says it proves. it didn t. he said it proved racism in the crowd. we ll play you the tapes and you ll hear from audience members. he claims to feel sorry for the victim but blames others acting on his misleading information for hurting her. it was a phony story. it isn t the first and it isn t the first about race. but why let the truth stop you when you re making political points? that s the way a lot of people seem to think these days on left and the right. you can blame the media for acting as a conveyor belt, you can blame the obama administration for being hyper sensitive about race. race baiters, smear artists learn trumped up stories about race pay off because people
Bp. so we went to the white house, asking it, are they going to require bp to reopen the well so that accurate measure flow can be measured? the white house said take it up with thad allen. i spoke to james carville about this earlier today. if the weather holds, it s possible they do the static kill and once and for all kill this well. that would mean we would never know the actual amount of oil pouring out of there on any given day. that s what it means, so bp lawyers would be able to argue that. last night i said it was a $7,000 fine. that s incorrect. i stand corrected on that. that s a lot of money. $4,300 per barrel of oil? as i understand it, that s the top they would have to pay. i think it s unbelievable that we never got the instrumentation on that. the comical thing is that bp said they didn t really care what the flow rate was. of course they cared. but, you know, science is pretty good. i guess we ll have to take that to a jury, take it to some find
Shirley sherrod, buried in all the things that she said, it s not about black and white. it s about the haves and have-nots. we see the haves ginning up the have-nots over race. it s unfortunate but those are the people, in my opinion, causing a lot of issues. david frum raised the point that conservatives circle the wagons. liberals do that as well. i don t want to make this bashing conservatives. it seems ideologs do that. it seems in this day and age, people don t like to just say they were wrong. it s all about seeing things through your political prism. and also by scoring political points. i think david frum is being very kind to andrew breitbart. there was a certain malice involved in this. let s be straight about that. there is a circle the wagons mentality on both sides. you re right about that, anderson. even today, i must tell you, as much as i admired the secretary of agriculture for coming out and saying i take the hit on this.
Require bp to reopen the well so that accurate measurements are measured? take it up with thad allen. i spoke to james carville about this earlier today. if the weather holds, it s possible they do the static kill and kill this well. that would mean we would never know the actual amount of oil pouring out of there on any given day. that s what it means, so bp lawyers would be able to argue that. last night i said it was $a $7,000 fine. that s incorrect. i stand corrected on that. that s a lot of money. $4,300 per barrel of oil? as i understand it, that s the top they would have to pay. i think it s unbelievable that we never got the instrumentation on that. the comical thing is that bp said they didn t really care what the flow rate was. of course they cared. but, you know, science is pretty good. i guess we ll have to take that