I thought Trent Lott was running from the police.

"SPILT???!!!"

And what do the neocons say about education?

Don't you know that fact checking isn't good for ratings.

We need to make it illegal for politicians to lie. Simple, really: simply swear them in when they take office, and then keep them under oath the entire time they serve. That way, anytime Lott or any of the others (on either side of the aisle) lie so obviously, we bust them for perjury.

Hey, it's a lot gentler than what the Founders would be doing to these crooked bastards...

Bud "Terrorist Fist Jab" Hussein @ 3:

"SPILT???!!!"

And what do the neocons say about education?

Education sucks in this nation, though at least the UK sucks even worse than we do.

1/5 of the US population believes the Sun revolves around the Earth, so a politician using bad grammar is not surprising.

Paul B. @ 6:

We need to make it illegal for politicians to lie. Simple, really: simply swear them in when they take office, and then keep them under oath the entire time they serve. That way, anytime Lott or any of the others (on either side of the aisle) lie so obviously, we bust them for perjury.

Hey, it's a lot gentler than what the Founders would be doing to these crooked bastards...

The Founders would be doing what exactly? Congratulating them? The Revolutionary generation was just as corrupt as this one.

Ruthless People aka "The Whiner" @ 11:

Why didn't Breaux call Lott on his lie instead of sitting there like a bump on a log?

John Breaux gave up giving a shit about Louisiana when he decided to make Maryland his new home. Not at all surprised at his idiocy.

We have 2 corrupt oil men in the White House who have tripled oil prices since the Clinton years and now they and their corrupt lying surrogates in the GOP are using the high prices they helped create (and the record profits for big oil) as an excuse to do what they have wanted to do for years, drill, drill, drill, some more, pollute, pollute, pollute some more. One would be hard pressed to find more deceitful, slimier, moral bankrupt creature on the planet than a conservative Republican.

a protohominid @ 13:

Somewhere Winston Smith sits in his cubicle and types "UNNEWS Hurricane Katrina oil spills. Should read INGSOC Oil Platforms surprisingly sturdy. Big Brother is pleased to announce no environmental damage occurred at all. Double plus good."

The memory hole is alive and well.

You give the Bush Administration too much credit to make them capable of the logic-twisting Orwell's world did by a matter of routine.

Ruthless People aka "The Whiner" @ 15:

We have 2 corrupt oil men in the White House who have tripled oil prices since the Clinton years and now they and their corrupt lying surrogates in the GOP are using the high prices they helped create (and the record profits for big oil) as an excuse to do what they have wanted to do for years, drill, drill, drill, some more, pollute, pollute, pollute some more. One would be hard pressed to find more deceitful, slimier, moral bankrupt creature on the planet than a conservative Republican.

Not at all, on the finding a slimier, more deceitful, morally bankrupt person than the conservative Republican: someone who would enable them while passing it off as something else. The innocence is charming.

Oil did everything to help create Katrina in the first place - wtf planet is he on.

Rob @ 21:

Oil did everything to help create Katrina in the first place - wtf planet is he on.

Huh, what? Liquified dinosaurs created an atmospheric condition that grew really powerful and disrupted a levee system? How's that work again?

it just appears to get the truth out of the
reichwingneocon pundits, the American publie
will have to hire blackwater for some of that
moral free immunity justice. only in this case
the American public would be justified using
their illegal services.

Charles @ 26:

Trent @ 20:

Senator Empty Lott is as full of sh*t as Sen Breaux sitting next to him!

Right on. It's pathetic. Why would anyone think these dingle-berries represent us or anything we need or want?

Stupidity + that's their job, Constitutionally speaking + wishful thinking?

dadams @ 25:

it just appears to get the truth out of the
reichwingneocon pundits, the American publie
will have to hire blackwater for some of that
moral free immunity justice. only in this case
the American public would be justified using
their illegal services.

I don't know about you, but I can't wait to defend myself against Blackwater employees. It's easy. Just shoot first, because if you don't, they will.

E. Shyhawk...I get those emails. I liked that one. And they're running around telling us it's safe. That there haven't been any accidents and spills. Getting off oil is the safe thing to do. Will it happen? Not until all these oil men are dead.

I've reached a point where I feel the need to express my disappointment with MSNBC. Please note that many of the conclusions I'm about to draw are based on cogent and virtually incontrovertible evidence provided by a set of people who have suffered immensely on account of MSNBC. Am I angry? You bet. I don't know what makes MSNBC think that it has its moral compass in tact. Maybe it's been sipping cuckoo juice. The fact of the matter is that MSNBC believes that we should abandon the institutionalized and revered concept of democracy. That's just wrong. It further believes that its canards are Right with a capital R. Wrong again! Anyway, I hope I've made my point, which is that this should not and need not be the case.

E. Skyhawk @ 28:

What part of lying-sack-o-shit do they not understand??

I'm glad they are going off on this lie....
Let the press smackdowns begin!!
BRING. IT. ON!!

From think progress:

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Caused 124 Offshore Spills For A Total Of 743,700 Gallons. 554,400 gallons were crude oil and condensate from platforms, rigs and pipelines, and 189,000 gallons were refined products from platforms and rigs. [MMS, 1/22/07]

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Caused Six Offshore Spills Of 42,000 Gallons Or Greater. The largest of these was 152,250 gallons, well over the 100,000 gallon threshhold considered a “major spill.” [MMS, 5/1/06]

In addition, the hurricanes caused disastrous spills onshore throughout southeast Louisiana and the rest of the Gulf Coast as tanks, pipelines, refineries and other industrial facilities were destroyed, for a total of 595 different oil spills. The 9 million gallons reported spilled were comparable with the Exxon Valdez’s 10.8 million gallons, but unlike the Exxon Valdez, were distributed throughout Louisiana, Mississippi, and other Gulf Coast states, many in residential areas. The most massive spills included:

– The Bass Enterprises Cox Bay spill of 3.78 million gallons of oil, the largest spill caused by the hurricanes
– The Murphy Oil spill in Mereaux, LA of 819,000 gallons of oil, contaminating 1,700 homes and the local high school

At the time, the Houston Chronicle described the devastation as “among the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history.”

Did anybody ever provide a source for the 743,700 gallons figure? I never saw one on the Thinkprogress.com comment thread. Either I gave up reading after it was asked 50+ times or the figure is one of those 37% of all statistics made up on the spot.

Barry @ 30:

Adrea Mitchell just sits there silent while the lies fly. She is much too passive of an interviewer. We need to call out these lying repub SOB's immediately.

Mitchell's not calling out anybody. She knows what side her bread is buttered on. The corporate press pulls her strings.

WakeUpAmerica! @ 32:

Why are you wasting space covering Trent Lott? Why? Why don't you cover real issues?

I think because this site is called, "Crooks & Liars." I personally believe all three of the goons we have just watched in this video fit that description perfectly.

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Charles @ 34:

Barry @ 30:

Adrea Mitchell just sits there silent while the lies fly. She is much too passive of an interviewer. We need to call out these lying repub SOB's immediately.

Andrea is a joke. She just brings em out and they fill our ears with distortions, fabricated statistics, overblown fear mongering, false marketing, soft power, and lawyer like public relations. She's just staying "on message."

And holy shit, she's married to Alan Greenspan. What do you expect?

You're kidding , right? Oh fuck you are right. Talk about crooks and liars. The power couple from hell.

When Confederate Trent's not widdlin with his Klan buddies or lobbyin, he's spewing horseshit on national teevee.

This is one area where I have to admit I was wrong. A conservative friend of mine was trying to justify the price of gas by saying part of the reason was that the gulf rigs were damaged from Rita and Katrina. I thought that they capped those rigs effectively in anticipation of the storms. Unfortunately even those measures did not prevent spillage and damage to refinery facilities. Just more evidence that offshore drilling is not yet environmentally safe. Not sure yet what overall impact the storms had on the price of gas.

Charles @ 44:

General_Rennenkampf @ 36:

Charles @ 31:

E. Shyhawk...I get those emails. I liked that one. And they're running around telling us it's safe. That there haven't been any accidents and spills. Getting off oil is the safe thing to do. Will it happen? Not until all these oil men are dead.

What replaces oil? Saying we need to get off it is one thing. What replaces it is another thing entirely.

The only reason it's the only fuel we can obtain readily is because it's been shoved up our asses for generations. These fuckers have buried other technologies for as long. For one reason or another. They don't want you to have cheap gas any longer. They don't want your currency to be strong. They don't want you to have personal rights. They don't want you to have a choice. Just get back to work and do what you're told, you slave.

It's also great for making Napalm. Just add frozen concentrate orange juice.

Ah, so this "they" is it the Illuminati and the Elders of Zion? :rollseyes: I mean, Jesus, dude, you sound just like a Dommie dittohead like this. Only the Dommie dittoheads see the "they" as the Jewish Marxist Feminazi Conspiracy to corrupt our White Manliness.

Che's Lounge @ 47:

This is one area where I have to admit I was wrong. A conservative friend of mine was trying to justify the price of gas by saying part of the reason was that the gulf rigs were damaged from Rita and Katrina. I thought that they capped those rigs effectively in anticipation of the storms. Unfortunately even those measures did not prevent spillage and damage to refinery facilities. Just more evidence that offshore drilling is not yet environmentally safe. Not sure yet what overall impact the storms had on the price of gas.

After Katrina hit, it spiked because plenty of rigs were out of commission. Rita hitting didn't help and it sure fucked the US over worse. It should be fixed, by now, though. Three years is a long time to repair an oil rig.

I'm sick of these so called journalists not bringing up the facts and challenging these idiots. Far left media? Get real, there is no such thing.

So meteorologists are telling us there will be stronger hurricanes in the future. So let's make sure we maximize the number of rigs we have in the Gulf and Atlantic to ensure spills will be more frequent. Just another way to make money off of volatile swings in the trading of oil as a commodity. Always remember Exxon/Mobil loves you...and your money.

P.D. @ 50:

What wrong with the people of Mississippi? In fact, what is wrong with the people down South? Their alligence to these buffoons is mind-boggling. Can't they pick up a newspaper or watch anything other than Faux News? No wonder why Mississippi has some of the worst test-scores in the country.

I'm from the South, and I'm hardly the sort of ignorant idiot who believes these things. Of course, I had more curiosity and interest in a lot of things that most people here take for granted, that may have a lot to do with it, too. As for the ills of Southern education, the South is a poor region with a very small group of wealthy people and a huge mass of poor people, much like the Middle East.

Put 2 and 2 together and you see why bereft of the US, the South becomes Saudi Arabia, Mk. 2.

Ron @ 53:

I'm sick of these so called journalists not bringing up the facts and challenging these idiots. Far left media? Get real, there is no such thing.

Just another myth. Republicans believe it because they're so weak minded, they need to believe it. If they have no enemy, they would just kill themselves. So they manufacture them.

P.D. @ 50:

What wrong with the people of Mississippi? In fact, what is wrong with the people down South? Their alligence to these buffoons is mind-boggling. Can't they pick up a newspaper or watch anything other than Faux News? No wonder why Mississippi has some of the worst test-scores in the country.

If you don't know your brainwashed, how do you figure it out?

Charles @ 61:

P.D. @ 50:

What wrong with the people of Mississippi? In fact, what is wrong with the people down South? Their alligence to these buffoons is mind-boggling. Can't they pick up a newspaper or watch anything other than Faux News? No wonder why Mississippi has some of the worst test-scores in the country.

If you don't know your brainwashed, how do you figure it out?

Heh, funny you'd quote a post on Southern ignorance while using the wrong "you're".

General_Rennenkampf @ 63:

Charles @ 61:

P.D. @ 50:

What wrong with the people of Mississippi? In fact, what is wrong with the people down South? Their alligence to these buffoons is mind-boggling. Can't they pick up a newspaper or watch anything other than Faux News? No wonder why Mississippi has some of the worst test-scores in the country.

If you don't know your brainwashed, how do you figure it out?

Heh, funny you'd quote a post on Southern ignorance while using the wrong "you're".

You never make as spelling error?

Charles @ 64:

General_Rennenkampf @ 49:

Charles @ 44:

General_Rennenkampf @ 36:

The only reason it's the only fuel we can obtain readily is because it's been shoved up our asses for generations. These fuckers have buried other technologies for as long. For one reason or another. They don't want you to have cheap gas any longer. They don't want your currency to be strong. They don't want you to have personal rights. They don't want you to have a choice. Just get back to work and do what you're told, you slave.

It's also great for making Napalm. Just add frozen concentrate orange juice.

Ah, so this "they" is it the Illuminati and the Elders of Zion? :rollseyes: I mean, Jesus, dude, you sound just like a Dommie dittohead like this. Only the Dommie dittoheads see the "they" as the Jewish Marxist Feminazi Conspiracy to corrupt our White Manliness.

No, moron, I'm talking about the CFR and the Trilateral Commission. If you don't see it, I don't care. Just go along with your daily life until it ends.

Oh, and stick to topics you know something about. I'm not one of those topics.

Hah, the CFR and Trilateral Commission are Bircher territory. You fail at life.

There is no "conspiracy" theory of some all-powerful group constricting society, and if this is what the Left has turned into, I'dve rather ya'll stuck with Stalinism.

McOily thinks we can solve the problem by drilling lobbyists.

General_Rennenkampf @ 67:

Charles @ 64:

General_Rennenkampf @ 49:

Charles @ 44:

Ah, so this "they" is it the Illuminati and the Elders of Zion? :rollseyes: I mean, Jesus, dude, you sound just like a Dommie dittohead like this. Only the Dommie dittoheads see the "they" as the Jewish Marxist Feminazi Conspiracy to corrupt our White Manliness.

No, moron, I'm talking about the CFR and the Trilateral Commission. If you don't see it, I don't care. Just go along with your daily life until it ends.

Oh, and stick to topics you know something about. I'm not one of those topics.

Hah, the CFR and Trilateral Commission are Bircher territory. You fail at life.

There is no "conspiracy" theory of some all-powerful group constricting society, and if this is what the Left has turned into, I'dve rather ya'll stuck with Stalinism.

Another of your misconceptions. I'm not on the left. No one in my government represents me. Left, right, left. The second oldest trick of power. Divide and conquer. The first, is of course, religion.

sundog @ 66:

Charles @ 62:

If oil spills aren't on the news, did they really happen?

Let's try that again (must an Apple/Mac thing):

Oh yes, they really, really, really, did happen.

Take a look: http://skytruth.mediatools.org/node/19981

sundog @ 73:

sundog @ 66:

Charles @ 62:

If oil spills aren't on the news, did they really happen?

Let's try that again (must an Apple/Mac thing):

Oh yes, they really, really, really, did happen.

Take a look: http://skytruth.mediatools.org/node/19981

I thought your first quote was the best. It said it all. See...there's nothing to SEE.

General Nazikampf....I don't fit into your idiotic little boxes. You cannot categorize me.

General Nazikampf.....I belong to nothing. I'm just a human traveler. Just passing through. Why am I such a problem for you? Don't you have enough trouble dealing with your ego?

General_Rennenkampf @ 78:

Charles @ 76:

General_Rennenkampf @ 74:

Charles @ 71:

So, then....what exactly are you? Ubermensch? (Used in the strict Nietszchean definition of somebody who claims to have triumphed over human values, not the Nazi German-wank definition.)

Hold on a second. Your name is the name of good a good Nazi father.

Wait, what? General Pavel Rennenkampf was a Baltic German who fought for the Tsarist Russian state, and offered his services to the Reds only to get a bullet in his head. You fail the Internets for not doing basic research.

You had better do some additional research on the family name.

Charles @ 81:

General_Rennenkampf @ 78:

Charles @ 76:

General_Rennenkampf @ 74:

Hold on a second. Your name is the name of good a good Nazi father.

Wait, what? General Pavel Rennenkampf was a Baltic German who fought for the Tsarist Russian state, and offered his services to the Reds only to get a bullet in his head. You fail the Internets for not doing basic research.

You had better do some additional research on the family name.

The Rennenkampfs were Germans who fought for Russia, the worst sin in the eyes of someone like Hitler. I was using Pavel Rennenkampf as my Rennenkampf, so comparing me in a libelous manner to the German version of 19th Century America is an insult. [Deleted. Abusie. Site Monitor]

Charles @ 84:

General_Rennenkampf @ 82:

Charles @ 79:

General Nazikampf.....I belong to nothing. I'm just a human traveler. Just passing through. Why am I such a problem for you? Don't you have enough trouble dealing with your ego?

Don't you have enough work to do creating a utopia, Adrian Veidt?

I'll create my own. You worry about yourself. The topic is drilling for a toxic substance called oil off of our coast. Get back on the topic or leave.

You first, it was you that hijacked it, after all with this Nazi libel and then didn't have the balls to provide sources.

Lott: "No one wants to unnecessarily endanger pristine areas . . ."
Lott and his g.o.p. enablers don't give a rats a@@ if they endanger pristine areas by necessity. There's a reason why the Santa Barbara oil spill is a faint memory.

I actually saw this exchange while surfing channels. Andrea just sat there and didn't utter a word.

For all the world to see.

Lots and lots of oil in the water: http://skytruth.mediatools.org/node/19981

Trent Lott: Professional Christian/Liar

swampfox @ 94:

who cares what trnt lot says?

somebody.... apparently does he is on the idiot box

had me had me dang it... Oh well, ya only really get one good chance at snark and I just hit submit without checking first... bummer.... Still, Trent Lott lies doesn't change.....JD

Trent and John , partners in an Alabama AG sense !

I'm fast coming to the conclusion that when I see anyone with --hair that never moves, pre-molded, Ken-doll hair-- they're a whacked-out right-wing conservative, and I needn't listen, so I didn't. Was I worng?

Heres info on the satellite images showing the damage and oil spill after the hurricanes!!

Spread the links and the word EVERY time you read the lie about no oil spills!!

trent , how much oil do you use in your toupe , talk about slicked back .

General_Rennenkampf @ 58:

Merkin @ 52:

Hey Lott, go check out Chalmette, LA. My hometown. Destroyed by an oil slick spilled from Murphy Oil refinery.

To quote the nurse from "The Verdict"....

"Who are these men??!!"

You're from Chalmette? My pities, it seems the people in NO proper are constricting ya'll from the aid as much as they are from here where Rita still hurts us.

First, to General & Merkin, I hope that you are both recovering from the disastrous 2005 hurricanes. However, the comment from the General about 'the people in NO proper', along w/the jaw-dropping assurances of 'not one drop of oil spilled from Katrina' that has lately been flooding the airwaves, makes me wonder exactly when did 'we' slip through the 'Looking Glass'? Evidently, what's up-is down, disasters of 'historical' magnitude are the fault of the victims...all we have to do is click our ruby red slippers 3 times and all is well in the world, etc. Commonsense, logic, along w/basic fact-checking & information has all but disappeared from the msm media, nothing left except those bumper-sticker talking-points. Are there no investigative reporters anymore? I have the computer skills of a toddler and find it simple enough to find out information by using the search buttons on the computer. You get about a million entries and read a few dozen different ones and voila...you can usually get a general idea of the facts hidden somewhere. But alot of people are too busy trying to maintain their existence and rely on the MSM for their info...so what you see, is what they are getting. One needs only to click on http://www.katrinadestruction.com/images to get a general idea that most of the talking points about Katrina/Rita/NO Fed. levee failure for the past 3 yrs don't hold water, but the misperceptions continue. If I can do it w/my limited skills, why is it such a problem with the media to make a little attempt at relaying facts...many of them probably have the actual footage in their archives. One other thing, if what they propose is the best option...why aren't there verified experts (not the pretend ones) rather than politicians and lobbyists and their shills talking the FACTS?

Difference here is that you can lie on TV and get the bulk of the people watching to just sit there and take it. Unfortunately when stuff is Quicktime on computer, all the viewer has to do is Google Hurricane Katrina oil spills and get the whole story about 20 times over from 2005 to the present. Hardly even slows down the porn downloads. Eventually, nightly news stations are going to need to put laptops on their interview desks and at least appear to do due dillegence. "Mr Lott, if you look at your monitor to the right you will see 50 stories putting the post hurricane oil spills at some where between 11 million and 700 thousand gallons. Oh, and this one puts any spill over 100,000 as 'major'. Are you refuting all of these reports? Are you telling the truth?" It isn't gotcha journalism, it's just getting the story straight. Without that, they are just being complicit in the lie.

What I find to be most deceitful is the fact that they represent Lott as "former Senator" but fail to lsit his current job of "Oil industry lobbyist". Is it any wonder that the misinformed public believes they're receiving unbiased information?