Spike Lee: US government lying about oil spill cleanup

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Spike Lee: US government lying about oil spill cleanup

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0808/spike-lee-oil-spill-cleanup/

By The Associated Press
Sunday, August 8th, 2010 -- 10:47 am



Filmmaker Spike Lee is calling a "lie" a U.S. government report that 75 percent of the spilled Gulf Coast oil is gone.

Speaking to a meeting of the Television Critics Association on Saturday, Lee said journalists should expose what he called the real story. He argued that it's unlikely that "abracadabra, presto chango" the vast majority of the oil has vanished from Gulf of Mexico waters and coastal wetlands.

Federal scientists said last week that nearly three-quarters of the oil has been removed by various artificial or natural means, but that the spill's effect on wildlife will long continue.

Lee was promoting his new documentary about New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. "If God is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise," a follow-up to his 2006 film about the hurricane, debuts Aug. 23 and 24 on HBO.

[nightrain]

1. knr. thanks. of course they're not telling the truth... more damn lies...

[Triana]

2. Thanks to RawStory. Unlike NPR, at least they got the picture right. n/t

[Richard Steele]

3. Of course they're lying. Blatantly so. K&R

[RufusTFirefly]

4. Experts say: If you're going to lie, make it a Big Lie

"The key-word here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that black is white, in contradiction of the plain facts." -- 1984, by George Orwell.

[flyarm]

5. Thank you Spike for truth..tell it brother!! He is 100% correct!

from a Gulf Coast resident.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Our government lie??!!??? Say it ain't so!

Water is wet.

[bbinacan]

7. Where did Spike Lee

get his degree in environmental science?

[Aramchek]

8. Spike thought the levees in New Orleans were blown up, too

[KittyWampus]

9. There are scientifically valid natural processes to account for dissolution of the oil.

It's pathetic how many DU'ers so often refuse to accept science when it conflicts with their preconceived/preferred narrative.

Yet they'll blast the rightwing for doing the same.

[bbinacan]

10. AMEN!!!! n/t

[TheWraith]

11. +1000.

It's sad that despite us supposedly being the reality-based side, so many people still love made-up bullshit that reinforces their existing worldview.

[peacebaby3]

12. Want to know where the oil is? Check out what was recently found.

<http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/wheres-the-oil-its-oozing-out-of-the-louisiana-ground>

[malaise]

13. When the Levies Broke was brilliant

I'll be ordering his new documentary.

I hope he exposes the truth in the Gulf as well.