Cheney flak Matalin attacks President Obama's moratorium on deep water drilling

[ProSense]

A week ago: "Clutching a plastic bottle filled with oil from the wetlands, a visibly upset Matalin "

Yesterday:

ANDERSON COOPER: Mary, you're concerned about the moratorium on -- on deepwater drilling that President Obama has talked about, a six- month moratorium.

MATALIN: Everybody is so focused on the immediate, as they need to be, and everything is like pulling teeth on every single issue.

But the moratorium is so unclear. It doesn't just go to deepwater, the wells were already inspected when they sent down the SWAT team. It goes to anything at a depth greater than 500 feet. That's shallow.

So, the offshore servicing industry -- and the Interior Department's own report says 150,000 direct jobs.

This is all of your people. This is not fishing and tourism. This is, like, huge...

ANDERSON COOPER: We should point out, Governor Bobby Jindal today sent a letter to President Obama and also to Secretary Salazar, expressing concern about that because of the economic impact.

MATALIN: And it's not just for Louisiana. This is Texas. This is Mississippi. This is economic -- these are more jobs will be lost faster than all the jobs that are being created.

ANDERSON COOPER: And, yet, they're -- you know, a lot of people are going to be listening to this and saying, well, look, you know, how -- how can you go ahead with all -- deepwater drilling right now if you're concerned that MMS is, you know, kind of out to lunch and hasn't -- hasn't been on the job? Is this the time to go ahead with that?

MATALIN: They can go well by well. They have already been inspected. This would be like shutting down the entire airline industry because you have one air crash. They can go rig by rig. They have already done it once.

And these are other producers. This is not BP. These are producers with great safety records, and it's shallow water. But, because the policy is so unclear, and they got a different directive in their private meeting than in the paper, everybody is shutting down.

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[Jennicut]

1. Even wells in shallower water can have some problems. Will the hypocrisy also ever end?

Cheney's lackey...

[ProSense]

5. She's a complete tool. n/t

[Botany]

2. Shut the hell up Matalin

[jezebel]

3. I'm a little unclear, I thought the moratorium was on new drilling sites. Are they going to stop

drilling on existing sites? What's she complaining about?

[suzie]

4. A Democrat is President.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. Matalin is from the GOP, the Grand Oil Party

[Phx_Dem]

7. Oh goody. Matlin and Jindal defending off-shore drilling during the

biggest oil spill in our history. Yipee.

It's mindboggling that CNN does not see the utter hypocrisy of Matlin's WHINING about the spill and SHILLING for more drilling at the same time. Not surprising. Just mindboggling.

:popcorn:

[Cha]

10. They see it and they love that she's the ultimate sociopath..and

that goes for the fucker she's married to.

[tanyev]

8. Oh, so she's recovered from her kabuki theater performance a couple days ago?

Matalin attempts to force moisture from her frozen tear ducts.

[JI7]

9. fuck her and her supporters on DU

[Cha]

11. Don't tell me there are matalin supporters

around here.

[JI7]

12. yeah, but one was tombstoned

a particular nasty one . i suspected that one was a freeper though. always attacking Democrats on everything. and then it suddenly defends MATALIN ??????

i'm speaking of shortnfiery

[Cha]

13. Oh

Ignore for like forever..but I had heard the good news.

Sad when one goes off the deep end and supports dickcheney's personal mediawhore.

[Princess Turandot]

14. Was she holding her jelly jar of oily water on the show?

Or has that photo op already served its purpose? Or is it oil companies other than BP that she and hubby own stock in?

[tomm2thumbs]

15. perhaps she should go lie on the beach and think about things for awhile... /nt

[jberryhill]

16. Her airline comparison is interesting

Because that is precisely what was done after 9/11, and it is normal to ground an entire fleet if a problem is found with that model of aircraft.