Is The Media Blowing The Oil Leak Out Of Proportion?
First some caveats: 1. I haven’t been to the Gulf to see the effect of the spill with my own eyes. 2. I have no doubt that pumping hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude oil into the ocean can have nothing but a negative effect on the natural environment and 3. Heads at BP should already be rolling.
Having said that, I wonder if the national media has purposefully over exaggerated the extent of the actual damage http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/has-the-media-overreacted-on-the-oil-spill/question-1049847/ . It’s no secret that the liberals who run the traditional so-called main stream media outlets are rabid for any story that casts a negative light against any element, public or private, with ties, real or imaginary, to conservatives and the Republican party, most especially to the previous administration. To listen to the popular narrative, George W. Bush was an oil man with deep ties to “big oil” and of course everybody knows that Dick Cheney worked for Haliburton when not sleeping in a coffin filled with dirt from his homeland or roaming the night searching for victims. Except, Cheney only worked for Haliburton for five years out a decades long career the majority of which had nothing to do with oil and George Bush has no love for the big oil companies considering they crushed his tiny oil concern not long after he started it. Again, the popular narrative falters in the face of the actual facts. So what’s to stop them from sensationalizing the oil spill to further their owner’s liberal agendas?
Liberals have long been against drilling for oil anywhere in the U.S., ostensibly because of the environmental impact, but really because they have a subconscious aversion to any big companies they perceive as being run by greedy conservatives and that ingrained hatred overrides actualities and truths every time. So it only makes sense that the liberals who own the news outlets (though the irony of their own greed always seems to escape the average liberal) would use their bully pulpits to preach mistrust and hatred against big oil, because big oil makes huge profits and unless those profits are spread around equally, then the people making them are automatically evil. It isn’t the oil in the ocean. It’s the dastardly rich oil magnates who callously spilled it. They did it out of spite and they don’t really care whether it kills the seagulls or not. They’ve got theirs, let everyone else eat cake.
The end game is to put big oil out of business in the United States altogether and they will use out right untruths and character assassination to achieve it. Every oil covered seabird they put out on camera turns one more person against big oil in their opinion, and they will go out of their way to show as many as they can. It sounds sick to say this, and it is sick, but the worse the oil spill becomes, the better it will be for the liberal activists because if it actually does get as bad as they are saying it is now, (and I have heard conflicting reports) then the entire blame can be laid at the feet of the evil oil companies and the drill baby drill Republicans, all in time for the November elections. Never let a good crisis go to waste? Indeed.
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