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Forget Katrina, Fox News Guest Thinks BP Spill Could Be Obama’s ‘Watergate’

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President Obama‘s handling of the BP Oil spill seems to simultaneously be providing the public with a quick review of 20th Century history. Initially, the BP Oil spill was Obama’s Katrina. More recently Obama’s handling (or lack thereof) of the crisis inspired some not-so-flattering WWII comparisons from David Gergen who said that if the Gov. had handled the Second World War in similar fashion we’d all be speaking German. Yesterday, Shepard Smith said the spill could end up being worse than 9/11. And today it’s apparently Obama’s Watergate.

Fox News contributor, and Mississippi congressional candidate, Angela McGlowan told Bill Hemmer this morning that “Not only could this be Obama’s Katrina, it could be Obama’s Watergate.”

One presumes she was speaking metaphorically, since there is zero evidence that any secret, backroom dealings on Obama’s part resulted in this catastrophe, though McGlowan does suggest all the money BP donated to Candidate Obama should be looked into. Meanwhile, Watergate appears to be a popular comparison this week: Rep. Darrell Issa today suggested the debacle over the White House’s Joe Sestak job offer could also be Obama’s Watergate.

Video of McGlowan’s segment below.

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  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    All those comparisons are stupid.

    Everyone knows this could be Obama’s Waterworld.

  • tws258

    Big_F-ing_Deal says

    That’s funny

  • http://PoliticalGlutton.com PoliticalGlutton

    Is there any minimum level of intelligence or knowledge of history needed to be a right wing pundit/? Seems all they need to do is find a creative way to smear Obama and hope their dim witted audience buys it.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Haha…Chris Matthews just said this is Obama’s Iranian hostage crisis.

    I shit you not.

  • Olby Sucks

    obama is laying a nice asphalt highway for republican president in 2012, paving the way, so to speak. ;)

  • Liberty – Not Redistribution

    These comparisons are dumb.

  • Olby Sucks

    pg, please see bfdummies post.

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    If Operation Top Kill does not work , Barry could send Bill Ayers in to blow the well .

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Kam-Fet/572005492 Kam Fet

    What’s the qualification that’s required in getting a job with Fox. Its pretty sad, that people have to parrot what someone else has written. What a life.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    Kam Fet says:
    May 27, 2010 at 12:39 pm

    What’s the qualification that’s required in getting a job with Fox.

    They hired Palin, I think that says it all…..

  • Olby Sucks

    Which proves the standard must be very high. Thanks, JT!

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    Olby Sucks says:
    May 27, 2010 at 1:15 pm

    Which proves the standard must be very high. Thanks, JT!

    On planet wingnuttia I suppose she is “high standards” but on planet Earth those of us with any semblance of brains are laughing our asses off on that statement…

  • Liberty – Not Redistribution

    Got it…attack the messenger and not the message.

  • reddd

    there is a complete video history of everything oil spill related here, for those interested:

    http://www.frequency.com/topic/bp-oil-spill/

    hard to watch, hard to look away..

  • murphy0071

    All of the regulations were taken off by Republicans leading to this disaster. To say that Obama had anything to do with this is from people ready to prop up their Republican stooges. BP, Halliburton, and all those involved in the construction of the well are the criminals and should be prosecuted for their behavior and lies after the fact. A BP executive ordered the events that lead to the spill over the objections of seasoned drillers. My God, he might loose his bonus and couldn’t afford his mistress.

  • notsofast

    To say that Obama had anything to do with this is from people ready to prop up their Republican stooges. BP, Halliburton,”

    You are a cretin.

    U.S. exempted BP’s Gulf of Mexico drilling from environmental impact study
    Washington Post Staff Writer
    Wednesday, May 5, 2010

    The Interior Department exempted BP’s calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year.

    The decision by the department’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP’s lease at Deepwater Horizon a “categorical exclusion” from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 — and BP’s lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions — show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated a calamity.

  • ImNotBlue

    murphy0071 says:
    May 27, 2010 at 2:11 pm

    This is what a “true believer” looks and sounds like. It doesn’t matter the actual situation, the facts are only inconvienient. It’s ALWAYS going to be Republican’s fault… even when the evidence doesn’t reflect that.

    Obama takes huge amounts of money from BP… not a big deal.
    Obama gives them a safety award… somehow Bush’s fault.
    Obama in charge during spill, and responsible for letting them avoid regulations… ignored.
    Obama actually claims responsibility during press conference… doesn’t matter.

    It’s always the right’s fault. Reality be damned. Right, Murph?

  • ex political-media hack

    yo wanna see ho bad this is?

    investigate the link between the obama white house and bp lobbyist and obama pal tony podesta

  • disgusted

    I thought that the ‘movie’ “Mastergate” had a more “up-to-date” explanation! (Starring James Colburn as ‘Ollie North” – Slick era – no??

  • Nachi

    Oh yeah! Another propduct of another right-wing mind. It’s gettin’ better.

  • stoogedudes

    Could this actually be Obama’s “My Pet Goat”? Or how bout his “pretzel”? Or how bout his “Monica Lewinsky”?

  • Level Headed American

    This is clearly Obama’s “Wrong Way” run

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IBkQoXNvbA

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