From Politics Daily
Remember during the George W. Bush administration when a former Clinton official appeared on “Hardball,” stated that President Bush had allowed 9/11 to happen for political gain, and Chris Matthews nodded along in agreement? Of course, you don’t. Because that never happened. But this week former (and disgraced) FEMA chief Michael Brown on Fox News Channel asserted that President Obama had permitted the BP oil leak to continue for days in order to justify reversing course on expanding offshore drilling to “pander to the environmentalists.” And Fox host Neil Cavuto nodded.
Just when you though the conspiratorial wacky right couldn’t become more detached from reality — see Glenn Beck — it has. With the oil spill and the New York City terror plot, prominent conservative pundits have jumped the rails. I often ignore the cranks and blowhards of the right. Life is too short — and too real. But the past few days have served up too many examples of extreme conservative nuttiness. Sorry if that sounds uncivil. But there’s no other way to describe it in polite company.
Michael “Heckuva Job” Brown was not the only clown on the oil spill conspiracy bus. Rush Limbaugh was at the front. On his radio show, he suggested that environmentalists might have created this disaster to sabotage pending legislation in the Senate that would allow for more offshore drilling and nuclear plants: “What better way to head off more drilling and nuclear plants then by blowing up a rig? I’m just, I’m just noting the timing here.” Former Bush White House press secretary Dana Perino — on Fox, of course — declared, “I’m not trying to introduce a conspiracy theory, but was this deliberate? You have to wonder . . . if there was sabotage involved.” (The explosion that created this spill occurred a mile beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico. How many wild enviros have their own underwater vehicles?) Eric Bolling, a host on the — what else? — Fox Business Network, hinted that the Obama White House “let this thing leak” so the administration could dump its proposal for expanding offshore drilling.
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