{"id":578234,"date":"2010-05-25T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-24-bp-oil-spill-videos\/"},"modified":"2010-05-25T16:43:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:43:05","slug":"the-gulf-oil-spill-in-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/578234","title":{"rendered":"The gulf oil spill in video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Jennifer Prediger <\/p>\n<p>Day 36: Scenes from the BP oil spill disaster. Embattled CEO walks oil-stained beach.&nbsp; Embattled president caught in Rand Paul\/Sarah Palin firestorm. Oily, pink people turn angry and naked in Houston.&nbsp; Rachel Maddow, Steven Chu, Sylvia Earle, and so much more &#8230;\n<\/p>\n<p>Last night, Rachel Maddow devoted most of her show to the oil spill, including an interview with seemingly distraught BP CEO Tony Hayward:\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Maddow&#8217;s with Energy Secretary Steven Chu:\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/05\/23\/palin-links-bp-donations-obama-explain-gulf-spill-response\/\">Sarah Palin says Obama is sleeping with BP<\/a>, because the oil giant gave him more money than any other candidate in the last Presidential election.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>Watchdog group, Media Matters, says Palin&#8217;s claims are untrue. BP as a corporation did not give Obama more funding than other politicians. Their employees did.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>On &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; White House press secretary Robert Gibbs reponds to Sarah Palin and answers questions about the oil spill and the administration&#8217;s response. Aren&#8217;t you glad you don&#8217;t have his job?\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Man of the hour <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/05\/21\/rand-paul-obama-sounds-un_n_584661.html\">Rand<br \/>\nPaul rags on Obama for ragging on BP<\/a>. That kind of talk is just &#8220;un-American,&#8221; said Paul. But, wait. Wasn&#8217;t America founded by people criticizing Brits?\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Codepink activitists in Houston <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/ktrk\/story?section=news\/local&amp;id=7458599\">take off their clothes<\/a> and put on some oil&#8212;lots of it&#8212;to protest BP. Then they sing, &#8220;The eyes of Texas are upon you.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Palin keeps signing autographs and keeps shilling for drilling. &#8220;We need to keep <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/video\/boxer-oil-spill-happen-10635797\" >drilling<\/a> because if we don&#8217;t drill for a year, we&#8217;re going<br \/>\nto be more and more reliant on foreign countries that have even less stringent<br \/>\nenvironmental standards,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2010\/05\/sarah-palin-we-need-to-keep-drilling.html\" >Palin told ABC News<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Finally. Someone who knows what they&#8217;re talking about.<br \/>\nOceanographer Sylvia Earle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/bb\/environment\/jan-june10\/oil2_05-05.html\">talks about the disastrous oil spell<\/a> adding &#8220;insult to injury.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-25-the-7-dumbest-things-in-bps-spill-response-plan\/\">The 7 dumbest things in BP&#8217;s spill response plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-25-bp-gears-up-for-top-kill-to-plug-oil-leak-despite-doubts\/\">BP gears up for &#8216;top kill&#8217; to plug oil leak, despite doubts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-25-is-the-gulf-oil-spill-spinning-out-of-control\/\">Is the Gulf oil spill spinning out of control?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=9ddcec6bb8fb8d63083821db9b87558c&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=9ddcec6bb8fb8d63083821db9b87558c&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.triggit.com\/px?u=pheedo&#038;rtv=News&#038;rtv=p29804&#038;rtv=f18590\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-8bUhLiluj0fAw.gif?labels=pub.29804.rss.News.18590,cat.News.rss\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Jennifer Prediger Day 36: Scenes from the BP oil spill disaster. 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Oily, pink people turn angry and naked in Houston.&nbsp; Rachel Maddow, Steven Chu, Sylvia Earle, and so much more &#8230; Last night, Rachel Maddow devoted most of her show to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}