[lbo-talk] emerging CW: Gulf spill a "nothingburger"

[Chuck Munson]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> GAME CHANGE -- TIME's Michael Grunwald, who's on the speed-dial of all enviro flacks, nevertheless writes from Port Fourchon, La., that Rush was right about the BP spill -- it's an environmental nothingburger: “[I]t does not seem to be inflicting severe environmental damage. 'The impacts have been much, much less than everyone feared,' says geochemist Jacqueline Michel, a federal contractor who is coordinating shoreline assessments in Louisiana. … Anti-oil politicians, anti-Obama politicians and underfunded green groups all have obvious incentives to accentuate the negative in the Gulf. So did the media, because disasters drive ratings and sell magazines; those oil-soaked pelicans you keep seeing on TV (and the cover of TIME) were a lot more compelling than the healthy pelicans I saw roosting on some protective boom in Bay Jimmy.” http://bit.ly/9jTDtA

Rush Limbaugh has been pushing this line for the past few days.
Evidently he sees this as an opportunity to bash environmentalists
while he can bash Obama with other material.

Chuck