Breaking: Michael Boomberg Hearts BP..."They didn't exactly go down there and blow up the well"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Jason Linkins
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Michael Bloomberg: Leave BP Alone!

First Posted: 06-11-10 12:38 PM | Updated: 06-11-10 12:40 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/11/michael-bloomberg-leave-b_n_609120.html



New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, of the Bloomberg Bloombergs, thinks that everyone is being unnecessarily hard on BP, and hopes that we can all avoid a "rush to judgment." Per the New York Post:

The billionaire former CEO mayor is known for defending private businesses dealing with public relations problems. Friday was no different.

Bloomberg said on his weekly radio show that the head of British Petroleum "didn't exactly go down there and blow up the well."

Oh, well! Could the zero people who are out there, promoting the idea that BP CEO Tony Hayward went down to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to personally blow it up kindly shut up?

Additionally, Bloomberg is said to have opined that "everyone might want to wait to assign blame because the expertise of BP is needed to fix the problem." And you know, I get that we're stuck in the Codependency Tango with the oil company, I just think it would be great if BP could stop demonstrating their "expertise" in clamping down on media coverage.

[Hawkowl]

1. He's a heartless rich guy

And he's wrong. Criminal negligence would indicate that is exactly what BP did do.

[roguevalley]

13. he needs to stfu. of course they did, with their shortcuts and their

greed and their lies. they blew it the hell up because they fantasized, as masters of the universe, that they could control reality. FUCK HIM!

[aquart]

2. The billionaire king of New York likes BP? I'm shocked.

Let's see one tarball on one inch of property he owns. Then we'll talk.

[livetohike]

3. Bloomberg/Paul in 2012 - Apologists for Megacorporations

Between "accidents happen" Rand Paul and this ego-centric jerk they can collect quite a bit of corporate money.

[Old Vet]

8. Hes delusional................

Bring his ass down to the gulf. And explain to all the people how we should be nice-nice to BP for low balling how fucked they are. Also how the eco-system will be pretty much GONE around 2030. I don't think people can get there hands around the how terrible this really is, Anyone defending BP is an idiot, Period

[krispos42]

4. A building collapses in Manhattan...

...turns out the powerful and politically-influential construction company had falsified emergency-escape and fire-control plans and deliberately used sub-standard concrete, steel, and rebar to save money.

But, hey, it's not like they DELIBERATELY planted blasting charges and lit the fuse, right?

Oopsie, big accident, nobody's at fault, move along people, nothing to see here.

[Javaman]

5. ahh thimble brain speaks.

hey, bloomy STF up. Go back to destroying NYC.

[Mz Pip]

6. People who leave a loaded gun

sitting on a coffee table probably don't want their kids to shoot each other either, but when it happens the parents are accused of negligence.

I highly doubt BP wanted the rig to blow up but that's really not the point. It happened and from what I can piece together it happened because they don't like playing by the rules. Whether or not they blew up the well themselves or it happened out of negligence, the well blew up. The end result is the same. BP and all the other players in this disaster, like TransOcean and Halliburton, are responsible.

[flyarm]

7. Hey Bloomberg..how are the Walrus's and Sea Lions in the Gulf doing?

they lied in reports to our government and gave a false report to our government officials..isn't that illegal??????????????

PSSSSSSS..in case you don't know Bloomy..there are no Walrus's or Sea Lions as were in BP's spill plans, in the Gulf of Mexico..

[Oregone]

9. They didn't have to. Their negligence did the trick

[laughingliberal]

10. Fuck Bloomberg. Must be upset about the stock price. nt

[mod mom]

11. No but they did cut costs by not installing a $500,000 devise that other countries

require:


"The Deepwater rig lacked a remote-control shut-off switch, a back-up system that would close the well even if the rig above was destroyed.-snip The oil companies complained that the $500,000 devices were too expensive. Keep in mind the Deepwater was a $560 million rig. Countries like Norway and Brazil require these precautions to avert catastrophe, but in the US the technology is voluntary. This is thanks to a 2003 decision by the Bush administration's Minerals Management Service (MMS)"


http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/05/bp-getting-heat-gulf-disaster

and they did use a toxic dispersant banned in the UK!

bloomberg is an asshole!

[gratuitous]

12. And even if BP had done EXACTLY that

Bloomberg would still let them off the hook. Professional courtesy and all that amongst the Wreckers.

[Individualist]

14. That sounds exactly like some of the posts I've read here.

Birds of a feather...