You Lie!

"Wait! Stop! What did you say? A deep water drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico burst into flames, exploded, and killed eleven people?"

"Yeah."

"And now it's leaking oil into the ocean at the rate of two hundred thousand gallons of oil a day?"

"Yeah."

"And the rig is owned by British Petroleum? The oil company with that cute little green and yellow sunburst logo who keeps saying 'BP' stands for beyond petroleum, because they care so much about the environment?"

"Yeah."

"And now the spill has reached the coast of Louisiana at the mouth of the Mississippi and could be the worst environmental disaster ever? Even worse than the Exxon Valdez in Alaska?"

"Yeah."

"And the blown-out well is leaking oil from a point almost a mile under water, deeper than they've ever capped a blown-out well before?"

"Yeah."

"And it may take them three months ... three months ... to get it stopped, assuming they don't make any more mistakes?"

"Yeah."

"No! I don't believe you! You're lying!"

"Yeah?"

"Yeah! I know you're lying, because the big oil companies have said that with modern technology and drilling techniques, they can drill off shore ... off shore heck, even in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge! ... without any danger to the environment!"

"They said that?"

"Yeah! So I know you're lying. Why, even Sarah Palin herself said last month, in a speech in Lousiana, that we needed more drilling, not more studies, because we could now drill off shore safely and cleanly. Drill, baby, drill! Governor Palin wouldn't lie!"

"She wouldn't?"

"No! She wouldn't! So, I know you're lying! It can not be true that a British Petroleum drilling rig blew up, killed eleven people, sank, and left a well spilling five thousand barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico, that the oil plume has reached some of the most environmentally sensitive coast in the United States, they can't contain it, and they may not be able to get it stopped for three months! No! You're just making that up! You and that liberal mainstream media. You're all just against Americans having jobs and you love terrorosts and you hate big business! So, you're just making this all up! It's all a big lie! You lie!"

"Oh."