Jackass of the Week Brit Hume of Fox News Asks "Where's The Oil?"

Brit Hume is frontrunner for my "Jackass of the Week Award".

On Fox News there was this exchange between Hume, Juan Williams and Chris Wallace:

JUAN WILLIAMS: First of all, don't you think, this spill now is going to be in excess of what happened with Exxon Valdez.

BRIT HUME: Let's see if that happens. There's a good question today if you are standing on the Gulf, and that is: Where is the oil?

WILLIAMS: Where is the oil?

HUME: It's not on -- except for little of chunks of it, you're not even seeing it on the shore yet.

WALLACE: But there are some new reports that there are greater amounts of it on the ocean floor.

HUME: Oh, yes, that's true. But you know where the greatest source of oil that seeps into the ocean is? It's from natural seepage from subterreanean deposits. That's where most of it comes from, not from drilling accidents. So what's badly needed here is on our energy policy, and also on the realities of what really goes on when it comes to oil spillage.

WILLIAMS: But I think it will damage the environment in the gulf and damage tourism and damage fishing. I don't think there's any question this is in excess of anything we've previously asked the ocean to absorb.

HUME: We'll see if it is. We'll see if it is. The ocean absorbs a lot, Juan, an awful lot. The ocean absorbs a lot.

WILLIAMS: I think Rush Limbaugh went down this road, "The ocean can handle it." I think we have to take some responsibility for the environment and be responsible to people who live in the area, vacation in that area, fish in that area. It's just wrong to think, "You know what? Dump it on the ocean and let the ocean handle it."

HUME: Who said that? Who is saying that? No one's making that argument.



To which I say to Brit Hume, "Yo, Jackass, instead of using your biased editors to slice and dice your video, why not look at alternative media sources who don't slant the news through a myopic Fox News lense?"

If someone at Fox is reading this blog, please have Jackass Hume view the following video I put up on this blog just yesterday in "Raw Footage of the Gulf of Mexico Catastrophe". I'd like to ask Brit Hume when the last time he saw an "natural" oil seepage venting from the ocean floor which is spread out for thousands of square miles?

Hume, if Fox fires you for being too stupid . . . although that would be a stretch for a network which constantly distorts the truth . . . you can always hire on with a Big Oil member as a lobbyist for the industry.