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Ingraham: "Joe Barton, before he apologized, had a legitimate point"

June 17, 2010 8:34 pm ET

From the June 17 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

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Conservative bloggers rush to defend Rep. Barton for apologizing to BP

Conservatives have Twitterfight over Joe Barton apology to BP

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    • Author by pklute63 (June 17, 2010 8:41 pm ET)
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      Are you f***ing kidding me????? BP causes the greatest environmental disaster in our history and these human pieces of fecal matter have the nerve to defend them???? The republicans and conservatives have lost their goddamn minds....PERIOD!!!!!
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      • Author by Bad News (June 17, 2010 8:49 pm ET)
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        pklute63

        It's not bp anymore, it's GObp


        Mr. News
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        • Author by pklute63 (June 17, 2010 8:54 pm ET)
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          Hopefully the voters will remember in November who it was that was looking out for Americans and who was looking out for big oil.
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    • Author by 1st Republic 14th Star (June 17, 2010 8:48 pm ET)
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      Conservatives preach the virtues of unfettered free market capitalism -- the market will always regulate itself, the market will always self correct.

      Conservatives preach "personal responsibility" -- if you do something, or if you have a problem, only you are responsible for doing anything about it.

      Conservatives preach that government is too big, that government is ineffective, that all taxes are bad, and that all government spending is bad.

      Given those facts, Barton does not have a point. Ingraham, Barton and their ilk ought to be THRILLED about BP paying setting money aside for the clean up, since the company's act should validate conservative philosophy.

      Then again, "Obama is always wrong" is their default position, even at the cost of hypocrisy, so I shouldn't be surprised.
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      • Author by open_mind (June 17, 2010 9:08 pm ET)
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        Conservatives also argue basic free-market ideas that CEO's should get astronomical salaries and big businesses should be allowed to fail, because business has risks. Well, now that BP has made a calculated risk (by cutting corners on safety) and failed, here come these same "free market" promoting conservatives trying to intervene and stop BP from actually taking responsibility and facing up to the potential consequences of their calculated risk. These so-called conservatives are attempting to privatize success and socialize failure - which is exactly what they have criticized Obama and Bush for doing during the bailouts. If BP is not forced to pay for their cleanup, the default payer (the US government) will have to pay for the cleanup and that would not be fair to the American taxpayer.
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    • Author by soze169880 (June 17, 2010 8:51 pm ET)
         
      "Which is that our corporate overlords are never wrong for any reason, and how dare you even think such a thing."
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    • Author by Sharpe (June 17, 2010 10:51 pm ET)
         
      obama, taking a strong arm approach towards business? Please dont make me gag laura.
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    • Author by bintx (June 18, 2010 8:45 am ET)
         
      Even the Republicans don't think he had a "valid point." He will probably be stripped of his seat on the Energy Committee for his STUPID and PAID FOR remarks yesterday.
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