Charlie Rose

temporal1  08/19/2010 09:52 PM Report

How glad our president+all politicians, banks, Wall Street, must be for the months-long hiatus from media attention, a la BP OIL. What a charade it all is. By comparison, with BP's commitment to mitigate the Gulf problems, the rest of us have NOTHING to look fwd to, aside from losing more homes, jobs, security. Where is our BP?! We should have BP-like commitment from Wall Streets+Banks! PIRATES.

temporal1  08/19/2010 08:00 PM Report

Not long after the BP oil spill, the irony of it overcame me. Our president, the media, general folks, appear to be speaking with one voice against BP OIL, no outcome against BP could be too dire, etc. Hmm? -- How is that, i wonder. BP has claimed responsibility from the first!!! What about OUR 'OIL SPILL' ON WALL STREET/BANKING?! Where is the responsibilty for THAT heading??? O.IF ONLY WE COULD ALL BE SO LUCKY AS TO BE LIVING IN THE GULF REGION AND HAVE HOPE. I SAY LET'S SEND RETIRED ADMIRAL THAD ALLEN TO WALL STREET AND THE WHITE HOUSE. OUR REAL PROBLEM.

robdverity  08/19/2010 03:15 PM Report

Allen came off too glib for me at first - people that talk fast scare me. But he was more impressive with Charlie.

He didn't seem to be touting the adm. position that everything is much rosier now. That anything-for-commerce BS is too reminiscent of the Republican hands-off rah, rah for profiteering at any cost. Moral hazard anyone?

REMant  08/19/2010 02:31 PM Report

In the words of the Al Jazeera website "NOAA, the agency that conducted the government report, told a White House briefing that: 'At least 50 per cent of the oil that was released is now completely gone from the system. And most of the remainder is degrading rapidly or is being removed from the beaches,'" but "researchers at the University of Georgia said about three-quarters of the oil...is still lurking below the surface of the Gulf and may pose a threat to the ecosystem." And "a study released by scientists from the University of South Florida said experiments in the northeastern Gulf revealed that oil in sediments of an underwater canyon was at levels toxic to critical marine organisms." There has also been a lot of criticism of BP's effort, for instance, that companies contracted to provide booms were left in the lurch when the well was finally capped, that dispersants were overused, and that at first BP wanted to try to salvage the well rather than kill it, but then fearing huge liability claims wanted to kill it, rather than salvage it making known exactly what the flow rate had been. And there has been criticism of the admin's effort, for instance in rejecting help offered by the Dutch, and many other nations, while blaming the Jones Act.