We have a John Stossel problem in Orlando.

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Help me set this guy straight. He won't acknowledge that the oil in the Gulf is a force to reckon with. First he claimed that there was no oil in the Gulf, and now he's claiming there is good fishing in some areas.

Good Gulf oil-spill news: The fishing is fabulous
By Mike Thomas.

I hate to be the bearer of good news when it comes to the Gulf of Mexico because it upsets so many of my fellow environmentalists still hoping for an oily Armageddon.

But the rest of you might want to call in sick, grab your fishing poles and head out to the northern Gulf.

"The truth is I'd be very surprised if we don't see some state- or world-record fish brought in,'' says John Valentine, a professor of marine sciences and researcher at Dauphin Island SeaLab in Alabama.

Dauphin Island researchers are discovering what appears to be an explosion of sea life out in the Gulf, which they think may be the result of closing it off to fishing for so long after BP's Macondo well blew out in April, spewing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/views/os-mike-thomas-gulf-oil-111110-20101110,0,4206665.column

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Lies, and the Lying Liars That Tell Them.....redux

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2. You have to wonder what his incentive is in all this to sell such porkers.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Stossel, the pathetic smarmster, is a Republicon stooge. Therefore...

no citizen can reasonably expect him to report the truth.

Dude has a wicked bad case of bent-knee RepubliSmarm.

[Vincardog]

4. Since it is all sooo good, why not feed the GOP and DLC with a strict gulf sea food diet?

[Swamp Rat]

7. Starting with raw oysters

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8. I'd so pay to watch him and his close faily and 50 of hos closest friends

sit down and eat a freshly-caught meal from those areas--with the restriction that every piece of sea flesh must be devoured,

[eppur_se_muova]

5. He seems to be reporting just how big an impact commercial fishing has had.

Leave the ban in place, let the sea life recover to what it would be without overfishing, and what would we see then? Perhaps the huge abundance of sea life we can only read about in descriptions from past centuries ...

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6. Good catch!

Pun intended.

[RT Atlanta]

9. Get a pro-rassler' to slap him to the ground

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