{"id":576631,"date":"2010-05-24T14:17:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T18:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=25880"},"modified":"2010-05-24T14:17:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T18:17:33","slug":"matthews-tells-obama-to-kill-bp%e2%80%99s-disaster-capitalism-millions-of-people-in-the-american-right-who-sit-around-and-say-there%e2%80%99s-no-such-thing-as-mankind-destroying-his-environment-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576631","title":{"rendered":"Matthews tells Obama to kill BP\u2019s disaster capitalism – “Millions of people in the American right who sit around and say there\u2019s no such thing as mankind destroying his environment through climate change or whatever, there\u2019s an example of what we\u2019re doing right now. We can destroy our habitat on this planet, and it\u2019s the only one we got.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Monday, May 17, MSNBC\u2019s Chris Matthews erupted in anger<\/a> at the oil disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico. Matthews expressed his rage at the profits BP continues to reap as it fails to fix the growing environmental apocalypse.\u00a0 Brad Johnson has the story and the video:<\/p>\n

<\/span> Matthews criticized the behavior of the Obama administration. Matthews wondered why President Obama doesn\u2019t \u201cnationalize that industry and get the job done\u201d and noted that in the \u201cbrutal society\u201d of China, \u201cthey execute people for this\u201d:<\/p>\n

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It is maddening that our government is \u2014 everybody says, \u201cCapitalism is great. Unbridled free enterprise is great.\u201d Look at it!<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The moral hazard created by privatized profit and socialized risk has allowed bankers to cripple our economy and energy companies to destroy our planet. Matthews concluded by calling out the \u201cmillions of people in the American right\u201d who deny the threats of climate change and other environmental catastrophes from our dependence on fossil fuels:<\/p>\n

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Rush Limbaugh fired back, saying Matthews is \u201cbasically asking for a dictator<\/a>\u201d with his \u201cdelusional, deranged\u201d commentary. Matthews has repeated his criticism of BP and the administration, telling Jay Leno on May 21 that President Obama is acting like \u201ca Vatican observer here<\/a>.\u201d On May 19, Matthews asked for \u201cHarry Truman to come back and do the job<\/a>\u201d \u2014 making reference to Truman\u2019s seizure of the steel industry<\/a> in 1952.<\/p>\n

Transcript:<\/p>\n

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I have a hunch that the reason they don\u2019t want to fix this mess down there is because they would admit who did it if they fix it. Nobody is down \u2014 if this was a nuclear bomb ready to go off, we would be down there. I am so angry \u2014 I don\u2019t even want to talk about it. I get so mad at this oil company. Why aren\u2019t they fixing it, first of all? \u2026<\/p>\n

You know, I have a suspicion \u2014 I will go back to it again \u2014 I don\u2019t think they\u2019re doing their best. I don\u2018t think there\u2019s \u2014 the government is doing its best. Why doesn\u2019t the president go in there and nationalize that industry and get the job done for the people? There\u2019s a national interest in this, not just a BP interest. We\u2019re letting BP fix a national problem.\u2026<\/p>\n

In China, it\u2019s a more brutal society, a more brutal society, Kate, but they execute people for this. Major industrial leaders that commit crimes like this. Failure like this.<\/p>\n

This is a serious, serious problem. It is not over. It continues to destroy a part of our planet, basically. Part of our habitat, our American habitat. And everybody just sits and watches television every night and says, \u201cOh, well, that\u2018s interesting.\u201d And these guys are still drawing their paychecks, still making their profits. The oil industry has been ballooning in profits this year, and nobody is doing anything about it, except \u2014 what are we, the Vatican observers now? We just watch? It is maddening that our government is \u2014 everybody says, \u201cCapitalism is great. Unbridled free enterprise is great.\u201d Look at it! \u2026<\/p>\n

Millions of people in the American right who sit around and say there\u2019s no such thing as mankind destroying his environment through climate change or whatever, there\u2019s an example of what we\u2019re doing right now. We can destroy our habitat on this planet, and it\u2019s the only one we got.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is a Wonk Room repost<\/a> by Brad Johnson<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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