head of coal company in utah mine accident

[laruemtt]

getting all loudly defensive, making it all about him and his company and how wonderful and necessary coal is for our way of life. anybody watching this on cnn?

[Newsjock]

1. Astounding

I came in on the middle of it, and when I found out he's a mine official, my mouth dropped. Ranting against global-warming legislation? "The Lord killed" the miners!?

This is actually rather stunning.

[durrrty libby]

2. This guy is batshit crazy. Talking about his lack of hair now, and

yelling about I don't know what, but nothing to do with the trapped miners

MSNBC had enough of him and went back to regular programming

[Beelzebud]

3. Another Zero Accountability CEO. A symbol of the Bush years.

[laruemtt]

4. i think he's losing it from guilt. he's insisting

it was an earthquake, even though the scientists say it wasn't. wow.

[malaise]

5. I just started a thread

This is seriously offensive. What's more the University of Utah said there was no earthquake - it was the mine collapse that created the tremor.

I suspect his behavior has a lot more to do with those 113 safety violations in three years, rather than this god's will he's screaming about. :puke:

[Cameron27]

6. I had to change the channel.

[qanda]

7. I was just preparing a thread about this

I thought I'd check one more time before I hit enter. I knew I wasn't the only one appalled by this guy.

From my own post:

I cannot believe that all he seems concerned with is saying that it's not his fault and blah, blah, blah. What about these people's families? How insensitive can any person be?

[laruemtt]

8. "the families are doing fine" -

yeah. i know i'd be doing fine if my husband / brother / son was trapped underground and i didn't know if he was dead or alive. :sarcasm:

[qanda]

11. He's a nut

They really need a public relations person or someone with sense to give this update.

[wndycty]

9. On MSNBC Matt Lauer dumped him, almost mocked him a bit. . .

. . .MSNBC is back to politics and will cut in when there is news to report.

[Cameron27]

12. I know, Lauer was astounded,

I stopped watching before MSNBC cutaway though.

[wndycty]

13. I bet he resisted doing MSNBC on Super Tuesdays

. . .and this CEO is the reason why. Cable news is just so bad, I keep it on all day but it can't be good for America. There is some good information but too much sensationalism.

[madokie]

10. I think I'm like on the start of my fifth week of no, none, zilch, cnn

and I don't feel any less informed for it. Just think what 4 weeks of NOT hearing NNNOOOOOOWWWWWWWW by leslie blitzer will do for ones sanity. I kind of miss the old curmudgeon jack but in reality he's just a toady too though.

[ToeBot]

14. What's more he runs a scab outfit

It's likely the families of the victims are doubly screwed. The last thing I'd want to do is go down into one of those hellish holes, but if I had to do it, I'd demand union benefits and insurance.

[Beelzebud]

15. Now he's stopping the press conference until a helicopter leaves the area...

I think the guy is on the verge of a nervous breakdown, actually.

[qanda]

17. That's what I was thinking

He looks unstable.

[buzzard]

18. I think so as well and I still don't know from what I have read if it was an

earthquake or not, I don't think that has been clarified one way or another yet.

[malaise]

22. Here

http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=080607-2

[buzzard]

29. Thanks.n/t

[monobrau]

16. Can't wait till the real story gets out

This scumbag is in full CYA mode. Shameless.

[Newsjock]

19. Imagine having to work for this guy

The mind boggles.

[qanda]

20. Did he just say earthcake?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. He just said "there's no emergency here"

He asked the Sheriff to stop the flow of traffic next to where he is so that he could speak without background noise, saying "there's no emergency here". I wonder if any of the traffic on the road is related to the rescue. It sounded pretty crazy to me. This guy seems to be more interested in his own liability than in the trapped miners.

[malaise]

23. Bingo

and even before he finds the miners. What a scumbag.

[Beelzebud]

24. Wow this guy is unbelievable... Blaming the media! LOL

[malaise]

27. He's a lunatic

The University of Utah report exposed him since yesterday

[TheWebHead]

25. at least he's attacking fox news

that was the biggest shocker yet... this guy is the Anna Nicole judge + Boehner on the Iraq funding rolled into one..

[Beelzebud]

26. LOL He wants the media to "report the truth! As told by me and company managment." LOL

[wndycty]

28. LOL what did he say about FAUX?

:kick:

[buzzard]

30. My only question now is why is he allowed to go on and on and why are no reporters

pointing out what the experts at the University have said.

[flying rabbit]

31. Is there a video up yet? nt