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Shep Smith Unleashes On Judge Napolitano After He Blames Gov. For BP Spill

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Want to get a sense of how a Shep Smith, Tony Hayward interview might go down? Today’s heated exchange between Shep and Andrew Napolitano offered a small preview.

The blow-up between the two came during a discussion over today’s WSJ report that BP had based its spill plans on out-dated government models. Napolitano essentially made the argument that this news was merely further proof the government is to blame for the spill (and you know, he does have a point), which did not go over well with Shep…to put it mildly.

I’m getting kind of grossed out, Judge….and now you’re going to turn around and blame the government for these bumbling fumbling crazy people?

And then, his voice dripping with disgust:

“How does it feel to be standing up for BP?”

Ouch. To his credit Napolitano did not lose his cool. “I am not standing up for BP…I am standing for the rule of law,” said Napolitano before making the rather tenuous argument that the oil companies should decide where to drill because they are the ones losing the money. Needless to say, Shep was less than convinced: “This is all turning to politics, I remember when Katrina turned to politics…there is a lot of hurting down there.” Watch below.

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  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    More BLATHER from this RINO in FOX’s clothing!!1 He belongs with the other SPINELESS LIBS over on MS-PEE-ON-ME!!1

  • Danimal98367

    Hey! I thought all Fox Talking Heads were Republican shills and lovers of big business. I thought they blamed every government failure on the Democrats, Liberals, and Progressives.

    What’s the beef? Have I been lied to? Is there more balance at Fox than the rest of the media and basement blogers would have me beleive?

  • http://politicsofdestruction.com/ Bobomatic

    The Judge is spot on…. on so many levels, and Shep knows it. The government has it’s share of blame in this whole fiasco. This is Obama’s Waterloo.

  • libra blue

    Why does it have to be either BP or the government? In my opinion they are both responsible. BP for their greedy decison to cut corners and cheat on safety tests and the government for looking the other way and granting “categorical exclusions” and waivers to oil companies allowing them to get away with it and for its delayed response to the gusher.

  • Ted

    Bobo – The judge is spot off, as he is about 97% of the time. How many Waterloo’s does Obama get; isn’t this about Waterloo number three?

  • Rufus0U812

    Yes Libra they are both to blame. The most repugnant aspect of this tragedy is captured by the Judge at 1:58-2:26.

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    The government is to blame because NOBAMA deregulated the entities which were meant to oversee BP!!1 I am ALL FOR deregulation – I feel that the GOVERNMENT should keep their HANDS OFF American Industry – but when deregulation leads to DISASTERS like this we must BLAME whatever Chicago thug community organizer ACORN SEIU communist fascist muslin Kenyan happens to be in charge!!1 And that is NOBAMA!!!1

  • mproust

    Oblahblah is toast. Plain toast with no butter or jam. Simple stale toast best used for topping a tasteless casserole to be brought to a lib potluck.

  • Ination

    Seriously, Obama could punch a baby and still get re-elected. Only reading news sites and listening to pundits that are anti-Obama would make you believe that he’s done. Look at the polls and projections – it’s baffling to me, too.

  • http://www.karlspensen.blogspot.com Karl Spensen

    HAHAhahaHAHahahAHAHAHAHAHA “Oblahblah” HahahahahahahahahALOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!11

  • Thomas G Williams

    As I said before SHEPPERD SMITH the only known American HUMAN at FAUX, I hope he gets the Presidential Medal of Freedom for spending so much time behind the domestic enemy lines at FAUX.

  • http://apostrophejones.com Apostrophe jones

    And this fool Smith thinks he is a journalist .

  • notsofast

    The judge is right. It was the environmental wackos who made them drill a mile deep and it was BHO who loaned Brazil money for deep-water drilling!

    “The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil’s planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.

    The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued a “preliminary commitment” letter to Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion and has discussed with Brazil the possibility of increasing that amount. Ex-Im Bank says it has not decided whether the money will come in the form of a direct loan or loan guarantees. Either way, this corporate foreign aid may strike some readers as odd, given that the U.S. Treasury seems desperate for cash and Petrobras is one of the largest corporations in the Americas. “

  • LowOnProzac

    It’s pretty clear, the judge is a rationalist, Shep is an emotionalist.

  • Ted

    No Low, you’ve got it ass backwards. The tea-bag crowd, which includes you of course, is knee deep in emotionalism. The rest of us have our feet squarely grounded in reality. This is the curse of of the tea-bagger, something you should not beat yourself up over.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Thorkil-Kowalski-Vrge/566276352 Thorkil Kowalski Værge

    Go Judge Napolitano. The sound of reason!

  • notsofast

    ted, you are that co@ksucker, TRL aren’t ya!

    I sure tore the bark off your sorry ass!

    LMAO!

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Shep is the best.

    One time I stepped in shit and when I turned my shoe over I saw a quarter stuck there. That is Shep, the quarter.

    Fox is the shit, of course.

  • notsofast

    BFD, You cld use your teeth for something more productive———- like making keys.

  • da-wdc

    it doesn’t seem like Napolitano knows very much about how specific government agencies operate. he just seems to have made up his mind a long time ago that government is all incompetent bureaucrats who can’t do anything right. But that’s only his opinion, and an uninformed opinion, in this case.

  • notsofast

    da-wdc says:

    That was a very ignorant statement you just made.

  • Ted

    notsomush – careful what you say, you are at great risk of exposing your incredibly low IQ; which as near as I can tell, is right on par with a mango.

    PS -please…the mullet must go.

  • notsofast

    ted, suck a nut!

  • nwjw

    Shep Smith Unleashes On Judge Napolitano? There was nothing even resembling unleashing. And the image used of Shep was obvious an attempt to promote a dumb ass headline. But it’s Glynnis, so I’m not surprised.

  • the real john t

    notsosmart says:
    June 24, 2010 at 8:41 pm notsofast(Quote)
    4 1
    da-wdc says:

    That was a very ignorant statement you just made.
    —————————————

    OH MY! That coming from the king of ignorant statements. Notsosmart can’t make a comment unless it’s an ignorant one.

  • notsofast

    John, eat shit!

  • notsofast

    Johnt, can you at least read at a 2nd grade level? I know its hard for you.

    ” * JUNE 24, 2010

    BP Relied on Faulty U.S. Data

    By NEIL KING JR. And KEITH JOHNSON

    BP PLC and other big oil companies based their plans for responding to a big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on U.S. government projections that gave very low odds of oil hitting shore, even in the case of a spill much larger than the current one.

    The government models, which oil companies are required to use but have not been updated since 2004, assumed that most of the oil would rapidly evaporate or get broken up by waves or weather. In the weeks since the Deepwater Horizon caught fire and sank, real life has proven these models, prepared by the Interior Department’s Mineral Management Service, wrong.

    Oil has hit 171 miles of shoreline in southern Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and northern Florida. Further, government models don’t address how oil released a mile below the surface would behave—despite years of concern among government scientists and oil companies about deep-water spills.”

    Now, STFU!

  • the real john t

    notsosmart says:
    ———————————-

    Your little peabrain is like a broken record. You just keep saying the same ignorant stuff over and over and over…

  • notsofast

    LOL

    You can’t refute it, you dumb dbag!

  • the real john t

    notsosmart
    ——————————

    What am I suppose to be refuting?

  • notsofast

    You can’t so don’t try.

    You are only here to insult everyone’s intelligence.

  • the real john t

    notsofast says:
    June 24, 2010 at 11:06 pm notsofast(Quote)
    0 0
    You can’t so don’t try.
    ———————————–

    Like I said, what am I suppose to be refuting? And for insulting your intelligence, that it’s impossible since you have none.

  • notsofast

    joht,=Dbag supreme!

  • the real john t

    Well notsosmart, I can see you can’t even answer what I’m suppose to refute. Why did you make the statement since you have no idea what you were talking about? I said you had a peabrain, I was wrong, you have no brain at all.

  • notsofast

    Refute this:

    * JUNE 24, 2010

    BP Relied on Faulty U.S. Data

    By NEIL KING JR. And KEITH JOHNSON

    BP PLC and other big oil companies based their plans for responding to a big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on U.S. government projections that gave very low odds of oil hitting shore, even in the case of a spill much larger than the current one.

    The government models, which oil companies are required to use but have not been updated since 2004, assumed that most of the oil would rapidly evaporate or get broken up by waves or weather. In the weeks since the Deepwater Horizon caught fire and sank, real life has proven these models, prepared by the Interior Department’s Mineral Management Service, wrong.

    Oil has hit 171 miles of shoreline in southern Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and northern Florida. Further, government models don’t address how oil released a mile below the surface would behave—despite years of concern among government scientists and oil companies about deep-water spills.”

  • Thomas G Williams

    Bush administration reversed Clinton requirement to model deepwater spills
    by Jed Lewison
    Thu Jun 24, 2010 at 07:00:48 AM PDT

    If you can read, then this is further proof that CONSERVLIGIOUS RETHUGLICANS are the real criminals on the Governments side of this.

    Thank Goodness for progressives and liberals and moderate and sane and qualified democrats are ready to CLEAN UP ANOTHER RETHUG MESS.

  • the real john t

    What the hell am I suppose to refute? That they were using data that was issued during the Bush Admin? And who was the President for the next 4yrs after 2004?

    You are as dumb as the day is long.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    ” the real john t says:
    June 24, 2010 at 11:39 pm the real john t(Quote)
    1 0
    What the hell am I suppose to refute? That they were using data that was issued during the Bush Admin? And who was the President for the next 4yrs after 2004?

    You are as dumb as the day is long.”

    ’nuff said.

  • the real john t

    Where did notsosmart go? Did he even understand what he C&P? Does he think Obama was President in 2004?

  • missly12

    Ted said:
    Bobo – The judge is spot off, as he is about 97% of the time. How many Waterloo’s does Obama get; isn’t this about Waterloo number three?

    Who cares!!! My boyfriend thinks the same with me. He- is a black man, lol. We met online at an interracial dating site[_www. B L A C K W H I T E C U P I D d o t c o m_]—a nice and free place for singles- black & white, to interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or- tell your friends.

  • Thomas G Williams

    the real john t: just stop responding to them, that really drives them nuts cause they cant get their jollys if you dont respond.

    They are defectives with no concept of reality and if you have not noticed (you have, it just needs repeating) many of them are sociopaths.

  • Rosey

    Yes Shep, there’s alot you you don’t understand. Go back to your hole in the sand and leave it up to the adults, little shemp, er…I mean shep.

    Nice job Judge, why to school and shut the pie hole of that stooge.

  • the real john t

    I’d like to know why the “judge” left a life time appointment on the bench to become a hack on a idiotic RW propaganda channel.

  • funny-farm.net

    The Real John T says :

    Who cares!!! My Horse thinks the same with me. He- is a black Stallion thorough bred.  We met online at FUNNY-FARM.net a nice and free place for singles-  to interact with SHEEP – GOATS -WILD BOARS and brown CHICKENS !!!!!!!Maybe you wanna check out or- tell your friends. !!!!!

  • da-wdc

    Ye$, I al$o wonder why he cho$e to leave hi$ official job a$ a judge to become a libertarian propagandi$t on Fox New$. $urely it wa$ the pre$tige that brought him to New$ Corp.

  • http://www.youtube.com/cmdrgmh cmdrgmh

    notsofast says:
    June 24, 2010 at 7:43 pm

    Wrong O jagg Off. The US did give money to Brazil, However, your info was wrong on who gave it. Say hello to GW Bush. He is the one who wrote the check. Get your right wing head out of the gutter and get your facts straight. As for Shep Smith, He is the only anchor on Feax NotNews that is center road. so 2 hours out of 24 you get non bias info.

  • Founders_were_Liberal

    As the right-wing nuts did when GW Bush was mired in incompetence and corruption while beginning two wars:
    IT’S ALL BUSH’S FAULT

  • Integr8d

    This is a such a show. This guy, Shep Smith, couldn’t come off any more staged if he tried. He reminds me of Keith Olbermann, Bill O’Reilly and all the others.

    These people are all actors. And I can’t believe anyone watches it. When I see it, I feel like I’m reliving those five accidental seconds when I hit 42 instead of 402 and ended up on Jerry Springer.

  • http://none pyrope

    Mr. Smith does not seem to have a clear understanding of the rule of law and venture capital expenditure. Everyone is in a hurry to malign big businesses–and these days, oil companies, especially–but no one seems to notice–or care–when investors lose millions of dollars in drilling a dry hole.

  • MissManners

    Plenty of blame to go around. Gov’t is not here to help us, and neither is BP. BP exists to make a profit, and gov’t exists to make sure they get enough exemptions, waivers, and sheilding from liability to get the job done. Pricks all the way around. Doesn’t matter who you’re talking about – I promise that when oil was discovered, and drilling began, THAT’S when the government got their sticky little nasty fingers in it. Long before Bushie and Oblahblah (hats off to mproust!) were born.

  • mrmnikon

    Karl…Obama didn’t deregulate the entities. I don’t know where you got that bit of misinformation… How can you say that you’re in favor of deregulation, but then hold the govt accountable if something goes wrong. That’s like telling the police not to go out and keep us safe, but then when someone commits murder, hold the police accountable… Ludicrous at best, moronic at worst…

    Do you really live with your mom in a retirement village Karl? You are 33 years old – time to grow up!

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