Greg Palast: Stick Your Damn Hand In It: 20th Birthday of the Exxon Valdez Lie

[babylonsister]

"Gail, Please! Stick your hand in it!"

The petite Eskimo-Chugach woman gave me that you-dumb-ass-white-boy look.

"Gail, Gail. STICK YOUR GODDAMN HAND IN IT!"

She stuck it in, under the gravel of the beach at Sleepy Bay, her village's fishing ground. Gail's hand came up dripping with black, sickening goo. It could make you vomit. Oil from the Exxon Valdez.

It was already two years after the spill and Exxon had crowed that Mother Nature had happily cleaned up their stinking oil mess for them. It was a lie. But the media wouldn't question the bald-faced bullshit. And who the hell was going to investigate Exxon's claim way out in some godforsaken Native village in the Prince William Sound?

So I convinced the Natives to fly the lazy-ass reporters out to Sleepy Bay on rented float planes to see the oil that Exxon said wasn't there.

The reporters looked, but didn't see it, because it was three inches under their feet, under the shingle rock of the icy beach. Gail pulled out her hand and now the whole place smelled like a gas station. The network crews wanted to puke. And now, with their eyes open, they saw the oil, the vile feces-colored smear across the glaciated ridge faces, the poisonous "bathtub ring" that ran for miles and miles at the high tide level.


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[LakeSamish706]

1. Isn't that special? These pukes kill the planet and we get to sit back and watch. n/t

[Gregorian]

2. Deadliest catch

It just donned on me after reading this article that perhaps there is some sinister reasoning behind the production of that show we see called the Deadliest Catch. Just one of my silly thoughts that I get. You know, like COPS, that show that I believe was there for a reason. To defuse, to legitimize, to spin and conjure up notions that nothing was ever wrong. Everything is just fine.

Some small cable tv outlets have broadcast the truths about this epic disaster. But most people don't have a clue of the screwing of an entire population by Exxon.

[roguevalley]

3. deadliest catch chronicles the hardest most dangerous job on the earth.

fishing in bristol bay can kill you.

[Gregorian]

4. Yep. I used to roof with a guy who was one of them.

In fact he even went overboard and lived.

My point was, and it's really tinfoilly, is that it could be serving another purpose.

[roguevalley]

6. nothing would surprise me. I hear ya.

[pnorman]

5. 'the poisonous "bathtub ring" that ran for miles and miles at the high tide level'

I like that phrase, and will probably 'borrow' it.

pnorman

[L. Coyote]

7. and some still entering the water each high tide, no doubt

[acmavm]

8. But don't you have any sympathy for Exxon-Mobile? They're so

hard up they had to go back to court and get the judgements against them reduced because they couldn't afford to pay them.

I'd bet they haven't paid them yet.

[crimsonblue]

9. they couldn't afford to pay their judgements...

but yet they made over $40 billion for fiscal year 2007.