Onion Cap

Lies and distortion took a new twist with the Shirley Sherrod affair.  Everyone bought the initial lies and distortion.

Now that  BP and the feds have figured out how to do a static kill on the spew in the Gulf, it’s time to apply the technology elsewhere.

Let’s come up with a way to pump heavy mud down the spewing wells of lies and distortion.  I’m thinking something of the nature of hovering airships that dump heavy loads of raw data on Sarah Palin’s appearances, Fox News outlets, Breitbart, and other repinionaters of whatever stripe.  Jim Lehrer and Bill Moyers should be in charge.

The word is in from the feds: BP Gulf Oil Spill 2010 is the worst oil spill ever. Four million barrels of oil has gone missing in the Gulf of Mexico. The other million or so was captured by BP skimmers or burned off.  Perhaps the four million barrels were eaten by micro-organisms?  If they were dispersed, where were they dispersed to?

The political spill has just begun.  Who is to blame?  Who should have known better?  What happened to the oil?  Are the government estimates correct?  Has BP paid its bills?  Why does the name Haliburton ring a bell?

What could we have done with four million barrels of oil rather than spill it?

How many barrels of oil does it take to screw in a lightbulb?