Rachel Maddow: Joe Barton Apologizes To BP & Tony Hayward - Glimpse Your Republican Future

[woodencoasterfan]

How about that Glen Beck! You railed on President Obama for appologizing and look what happens. Someone from the Republican Party does the same. Of course, those clips were probably never shown on the FAUX (FOX) Network.

[TheGodlessGuitarist]

@edgehead31593

"this lady is a dumb ass

this is like watching fox times ten"

So you think that BP shouldn't pay out to victims and to undo damage to the environment? Or do you think Barton didn't apologize to BP? perhaps you don't think Barton has a personal financial interest in that rig?

Do tell us exactly how she is outfoxing fox, because it looks to me that unlike Fox, Maddow is right on the facts, is not lying and does in fact care about what BP has been doing.

[saper321]

Do you know how to tell elections are coming? Simple, the demagogues on the left are scaring people into voting for Big Liberal Government party.

"Beeeeeeee verrrrrry afraid when those boo boo Republicans take over they will give big scary corporations unlimited powerrrrr."

I stopped watching Maddow once I realized I'm no longer 12.

[7jerryv7]

Republican. Texas. Responsibility. He backs corporations. He backs big oil. Why should we be surprised. Other people must take responsibility, not us.

[ihartscience]

@apinsent89 Whoah! 1) The economy where I live is the best in the US. Jobs keep opening up everyday. 2) Good for fricken Canada... but how does it feel to always be casted in the shadow of the US? 3) No, but I do believe people who are interested in politics about a country, have a better understanding of them if they actively live there. 4) I thought Canadians were supposed to be nice? 5) I would like to apologize for the rude epithets I may have called you earlier. We all should get along.

[ihartscience]

@apinsent89 It was quite the quaint discovery, when I found out that a NON-AMERICAN <(ya... I said it) was commenting over a US political video. I guess it's because you rely on our economy so much, to benefit yours. But no one will ever admit that.

You took yourself away from the debate, not me. You were quick to the gun pulling the "idiot right winger" card out. Let me tell you something, it did not impress.

[ihartscience]

@apinsent89 You're done, eh? You never even discussed the topic at hand. Typical lib. Preaches about self-righteousness and how ignorant they are, when they are the ones who know nothing.

I would have a level-headed, rational debate with you, but you seem a little ill-prepared for such.

I bid you adieu.

[ihartscience]

@apinsent89 Congratulations, you are another sheep among the ignorant masses.

[ihartscience]

@apinsent89 You are a complete and utter fool. Canada is capitalist, correct. However, it has national healthcare, does not allow citizens to bear arms, and many other qualities other socialist countries have. When I go there, I feel like I just jumped into pussified western Europe. Back to the journalist topic, though. Ever flip on Russia Today or Al Jazerra? You think they are giving you facts, without any commentary, Ha. You're even stupider than I thought. I get it, US does it. Others dont.

[ihartscience]

@apinsent89 On American politics, yes. You are correct.

The media in Canada and other socialist countries are a joke. I've laughed at the screen more often than became informed.

[ihartscience]

@apinsent89 It started long before Mr. Bush, buddy.... but I know that's the liberals favorite punching bag. You guys are running out of excuses.

Thanks Mr. (Insert a famous Canadian in here, if there was one)

[ihartscience]

@apinsent89 You're a canadian, you don't know what the hell you are.

1) You need to check up on your UN resolutions. You are obviously unaware that under international law, and past agreements, the war was just and legal. 2) Oh yes, fear mongering. Haven't heard that one before. I forgot that Canada was the country attacked by terrorists killing thousands on your home soil. Ya, it's all not real. FYI - Both sides lie, buddy. Wake the hell up. 6) You are nuts to think none of this was Clinton.

[ihartscience]

Wait a darn second here. Both of you rubes are from the Great White North. Why are you even commenting on an American political video? It's pretty obvious you don't know what you're talking about.

OOo CANNNADAA, OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND!!!

[ihartscience]

@apinsent89 Further proof you are an idiot, check who dominated congress during those presidencies. My god, you are a dumbass.

BTW, learn to spell.

[ihartscience]

@apinsent89 LMAO! The government makes the law. Illegal, my ass. You obviously have not passed gov 101. 2) No, I know your type. You are a conspiracy theorist. You believe whatever shit is told to you. 3) No I'm not, that's what all the liberals thought and wanted him to do. Therefore you are calling all liberals "nuts". 4) Both aisles of congress, demo and repub voted for the war, you dumbass. 5) Clinton founded the current downfall, shark-loans, mortgage loans, etc... YOU'RE AN IDIOT*

[qdoctor11]

@ihartscience you just got owned boy! slam dunk

[ihartscience]

@qdoctor11 Oh yes, another Canuck absent of facts. How unusual.

Stick to hockey and Canadian politics.

[ihartscience]

@AndyPin991) Oh wow, he talked about withdrawing troops!??! HOT DAMN! FINALLY SOME ACTION! 2) Lol, you still think that the war is illegal. I'm sure you also believe we didn't really land on the moon. 3) Obama could say everyone come home right now, but no, he doesn't. 4) You are absolutely hysterical if you assign total blame to republicans. Most of this started during Clinton's admin when he thought every idiot should own a house. 5) Americans are finally realizing what a joke of a prez we hav

[ihartscience]

@AndyPin99 Do you care that Obama has continued the wars in the Middle East? No. Do you care that Obama has had troops killed so we can have bigger oil profits. No. No, but you think everyone hates Obama cause he's half black.

This is why you are an idiot.

And no, my name is "ihartscience", kind of hard for me to hate facts.

I bid you good day.

[ihartscience]

@AndyPin99 You're an idiot.

[MoJoSB]

Fuck BP!

[Keither9]

with a family braking, miss locating, with pliers string and wires our own and the polarizations at a skewer misconceptions we watch the highest paid get the wrong speech in QUADuupli~hippo~critter style and grace? Quakery`anchorage or mole evident a heads up and down 4x and the fix is in? Who is shearing what in legislation ,,, when't over like a lead balloon and why don't they want supperdupperpooperschoopergate if they come back with Oops in their Apps?

who are those guys?

[punkeratheart]

So wait, if I go smash Barton's windshield, rip the siding off his house, dig up his entire lawn, and shit on his tulips, will it be a "shakedown" when I am convicted of criminal mischief and forced to pay restitution in the amount of the value of what I destroyed? Oh.....that's right, he said a "PRIVATE CORPORATION", not private citizen. Then it would just be enforcement of this little thing called "law" that folks in warsh-in-tin DC make up as they goes along.

[TheLongfords]

America caused this problem and the news woman must be working for the C I A, ugly looking kunt.

[1037pm]

@TheLongfords American caused what problem?

The oil spill?

Are you REALLY saying that?

[CSXer]

@1037pm Technically, Chenny's company (Halliburton) who built that rig potitioned the US goverment to NOT make them install a secondary shut off valve on the rig because it would cost too much.

Bush/Chenny pushed it through congress to not make Halliburton install the secondary shutoff valve at a cost of $500mil per drilling platform.(one of those late night congessional votes that don't get televised)

BP wasn't "really" responsable for the accident, but they were a willing by standard....

[celticlofts]

Hay, can Barton and be Palin's running mate in 2012... PLEASE....

[truthieness]

I think Joe Barton should quit in protest. He doesn't want to live in our country anyway.

[tgrigsby7]

@edgehead31593 She's factually correct and you are a complete tool. Extremist crap would be Beck, Savage, O'Reilly, and Hannity.  Wake you dolt.

[Polar515]

@edgehead31593 So typical. You start in on her, calling her a "dumbass." But you have nothing to offer yourself. You only sit there and you call her a dumbass because she's blowing you people out of the water. Republicans claim they're for "small government." But they want to let Big business off the hook when they really fuck up. It is ridiculous for you to sit there, because you in fact are the dumbass for supporting these kinds of people. keep voting republican man. You're too stupid to reach

[historygeek2007]

And the chief of BP seems not to be responsible for anything - except cashing his paycheck.

[historygeek2007]

This wasn't a gaffe...what the so-called gentleman from Texas said was, frankly, GOP policy. If the Repugs were in the majority, there wouldn't be a hearing at all - and they would have the government pay for everything.

What more has to happen for people to realize the Republicans are for business, the bigger the better? They don't really care about ordinary folks, and their actions prove this over and over again.

[johnny2366]

the surprise isnt that he apologized....the surprise is that people are actually surprised to see a republican with his viewpoint....he only retracted his apology after his idiot boss ( John Boehner ) threatened to strip him of his seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee ..Rachel was exactly right...He's sorry that we all misunderstood him...not sorry that he said it and has the belief that he does..true colors aren't quite as easy to hide once you've shown them Mr. Barton

[dgonzalez4331]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Apologize to BP ? This shows you who the republicans answers to. Not the people! Yeah you got to shake them down when they are sitting their twitteling their fingers when poison is pouring into the gulf. Thank god the president isnt republican!!! Other wise he would justify why the American people should cut the bill. Why are such idiots like this in charge of our country??

[mtheory85]

Even if it was a shakedown, so what? What part of this being the biggest environmental catastrophe in US history isn't being understood here?  The gulf is being completely destroyed, and people are worried about the government's actions having ideological repercussions? Can we please come to grips with this thing called "reality"?

[insightbites]

@edgehead31593, Exactly what did Rachel say that qualifies her, according to you, as a "dumb ass"? Don't just re-spew your conclusions, be specific. Propaganda? What exactly did she say that was untrue? Again, be specific (if you don't know what, "specific" means, look it up). What did she say that, according to you, makes her an "extremist" (other than she disagrees with you or the Republicans)? Again, be specific. My guess is you think it's trash-talking, because you don't understand it.

[ThriceThursday]

@insightbites

He's clearly referring to........

and....

also....

Therefore Liberals are liers

/s

[jingu3]

@ThriceThursday Beautiful Logic. +10 internets.

[paulsviplist]

BP is above the law.

Because they make the money to buy the whole government...

[AisuruMirai]

Joe Barton gets out of his chair & climbs under Tony Hayward's table on his hands & knees...

Bart Stupak: "Sir, can you please tell us what Mr. Barton is doing under there?"

Tony Hayward: "I'm afraid I cannot anwer that question."

[insightbites]

@AisuruMirai, Funny. You don't have the video by any chance?

[AisuruMirai]

@insightbites Sold it to Larry Craig, I'm sorry to say. Well, not REALLY sorry--you wouldn't believe how much he paid for it.

[insightbites]

@AisuruMirai, Look, I'm not suggesting you quit your day job, but you may want to pursue the script-writing/play-writing thing. I think you've got a real flair for writing (and, who knows, maybe directing and producing) Republican-themed porn (is that redundant?). Although, I have to admit, your biggest competitor will be their policies.

[AisuruMirai]

@insightbites They have policies now???

[Crusader4ever1]

Im sorry to say that HE REPRESENTS ME IN TEXAS!!!!? BARTON IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY....sleeping with the BIG BUSINESS...AND SCREW THE COMMON MAN....THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE SAYING....... WHAT AN IDIOT .... DUMB ARSE...STAY HOME BARTON....I didn't even vote for Obama....but the 20 billion escrow took balls by Obama to attain....Im sure Bush would NEVER have done this...For my first time to Obama cudos! Bp is the guilty party here...make them pay for it! shut up BARTON

[mst3KGf]

Shorter Hayward: "I am a dumbass. I don't know anything about anything my company does, nor do I care to know. I am a clueless moron who looks and acts like Tony Blair after a lobotomy."

Shorter Barton: "OH YOU POOR BABY! SOB!"

[ben361971]

I DON'T EVEN THINK I CAN WATCH ANYMORE OF THIS UNTIL THEY HAVE A SOLUTION OR A DEFINITE ANSWER THAT THE END IS NIGH!

[tylergator]

I LOVE Rachel Maddow.

Joe Barton looks very shaken on his 2nd miscontruction backpedal.

[tylergator]

I LOVE Rachel Maddow.



Joe Barton looks very shaken on his 2nd miscontruction backpedal.

[danger0usknowledge]

How does Hayward's response sound so familiar?

I wasn't there, I don't remember, I am not here right now,

you got the wrong corporation, what oil? Like Brit Hume,

I don't see any erl, I mean oil.

[Judy101101]

@shaan5262 I think he should take a swim - a good long swim in those waters and come up for air and breath in those lovely fumes - and don't let him come back to shore until he -- na just don't let him come to shore lol

[getabrainasshole]

oboomas answer.........MORE RED TAPE PLEASE!!

[Judy101101]

@getabrainasshole right on, you got it. how can i hide this money and keep it in my own pocket. he did good with the banking bullshit, now the oil bullshit lol he's like the energizer bunny he just keeps on going and going and going

[smtnh]

Joe Barton objected to the Attorney General of the United States looking on as the President requested that BP establish an escrow fund. It gave the APPEARANCE of impropriety; that the criminal investigation (ongoing by the way) might be somehow impacted by their voluntarily establishing this fund. Hate him all you want; Joe Barton was simply stating the TRUTH.

[Judy101101]

@smtnh criminal investigation huh - bet nobody does jail time lol. plus we all know a justice system is like waiting for all victims to die so you don't have to pay. I gather you either work for the oil industry, are a politican who accepts oil money or someone who profit off the justice system - YOUR A LAWYER LOL PIN THE TAIL ON THE DONKEY

[MsCeci2007]

this guy just won the democratic party this years election!!!!!!!

[Judy101101]

@MsCeci2007 did he really win or just bought himself a seat through oil money used to brain wash people through media - lets ponder and ponder and ponder

[townsendjean]

Shakedown??? Ashamed!!!

Hell this is nothing compared to whats in store for these reckless money grubbing irresponsible BP corporate thugs. CEO "I cant recall" Haywards smug indifference is going to take on a native hue quite soberingly different when hes found guilty of gross corporate malfeasance unprecedented in the oil industry.

Then Barton can go f%^k himself!

[Judy101101]

@townsendjean now there ya go. trusting in a justice system that doesnt' exist. it's no different then the banking systems, the criminals are running the governments and justice systems that's how they get away with all this shit.

[Judy101101]

Barton obviously gets his paycheck through the oil industry

[getabrainasshole]

@Judy101101 obooma got how much and had the highest donation from...wait....wait..BP.......­....he has no problem accepting the money!

[insightbites]

@getabrainasshole, Hey, dummy, they ALL TAKE THE MONEY. Thanks to right-wing opposition to campaign reform, that's the shit-system we're stuck with. It's the corporate-lackey conservatives/Republicans, who (like Joe Barton), after accepting it, ask their corporate masters how far they should bend over and when to grab their ankles.

[getabrainasshole]

@insightbites true, but also obooma told mcinsane to blow out his arse when it came to campaign donation's, wheres the bipartisanship........the sheeple are waking up! mcinsane would of done a better job by far but as usual the used car salesman..........!

[insightbites]

@getabrainasshole, a better job at what? Flip-flopping on any position he ever took?

[Polar515]

@getabrainasshole Mccain would be the worst person imaginable to have in office right now. Mccain is a liar and a pawn to big business.

[getabrainasshole]

@Polar515 50 50 chance of getting it right and it's always the wrong answer! third and fourth party required if not the used car salesman win!

[SheepGo2Hell2]

is it just me or does joe barton look like he has down syndrome? he sure sounds like he does!

[Judy101101]

@SheepGo2Hell2 now come on, the guy knows who butters his bread - give the guy a break lol

[mymatemartin]

So, a member of Congress, representing the US Senate, offers a personal apology to the CEO of an organisation that has, by its own indifference, inflicted immeasurable damge on the US economy and environment.

And then he has to eat his own ridiculous words. WHAT A MORON!

[Judy101101]

@mymatemartin and we the people - well not me I do this in my own country - pay these guys to screw us in our own asses.

[insightbites]

@shaan5262, Which asshole, Tony Hayward or Joe Barton?

[getabrainasshole]

@insightbites ask your mesiah why he can't remove the red tape to clean up the spill.....the wetlands could of been spared by 80%!

[Judy101101]

@insightbites ya to funny, pick ann asshole - which one lol

[insightbites]

@Judy101101, Thanks. I always appreciate it when someone picks up on my lame humor.

[Judy101101]

@insightbites I heard this one great joke/humor - came from people on the coast so if they can laugh I'll repeat it lol. how to stop that well? put a wedding ring on it and it will stop putting out lol

[insightbites]

@Judy101101, Very funny!