On May 3, disgraced former FEMA director Michael Brown repeatedly suggested to Fox's Neil Cavuto that the Obama administration deliberately chose to let the BP oil spill “get really bad” so it would have an “excuse” to “shut down offshore drilling.”

Following some chiding from the White House, Fox went into full damage control mode, carefully covering up over Brown's outrageous conspiracy theories by repeatedly refusing to air Brown's most egregious remarks and then falsely suggesting that Brown only asserted the “administration was looking for a way to take political advantage” of the spill.

Today, Cavuto incredibly attempted to double down on this falsehood, suggesting that Brown had simply claimed “the President was politicizing this oil spill to push a green agenda,” and suggested that Brown was “right”:

Of course that's not at all what Brown said. It's one thing to accuse someone of “politicizing” a disaster, but it's quite another to repeatedly claim that the White House would let it “get really bad,” delaying help for the thousands of people who's livelihoods depend on the Gulf Coast, for political purposes. That's a suggestion so outrageous that it made Bill O'Reilly want to "slap" Brown.