WTF: Fox News Says Texas' Catastrophic Spill Is Just A Distraction Like Oreos For A Dieter So Build Keystone Already

Days after a barge spilled 170,000 gallons of especially heavy sticky oil, dubbed "the worst stuff you can dump in the water," into Galveston Bay, crews are scrambling to contain tar balls being pushed to shore by winds and tides, and biologists have found dozens of oiled birds from nearby, crucial bird habitats. With the spill occurring at the worst possible time - many wintering birds still there, many more en route north - environmentalists say that "we expect this to get much worse." Galveston Bay is just up the coast from where Keystone would end. The brilliant minds at Fox are so up for Keystone they found a jaw-dropping new way to dismiss Galveston, like all the debacles before it, as just "another impediment to growing out our fossil fuel industry." “Enough of the nonsense, these are all distractions (like) anybody who wants to lose five pounds has a box of Oreos in front of them. Just get rid of the Oreos, and you’ll be fine. Same thing. Do the pipeline.”

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