Fox news caught lying again...

Going to get a little political here, allow us a moment to rant about lies in the news. For example Fox news in a number of recent stories has stated that President Obama has refused foreign help in cleaning up the gulf oil disaster, Specifically statements have been made by Greta Van Sustern, Sarah Palin, and during an interview with Republican Representative Charles Djou from Hawaii he stated "It’s important that we take help from whomever and wherever they’re willing to offer it. … So why are we not waiving the Jones Act to allow international help to come in? … Why we’re not waiving it here … is baffling." Now let me tell you why this is a lie, currently there are Vessels from 13 countries helping to clean up the Gulf oil debacle. All of them working without the waiving of the Jones act. Why? Because the Gulf Disaster is in international waters, the Jones act only applies to United States Territorial Waters, therefore we do not need to waive the Jones Act to clean up the spill. Another example of the extreme right attempting to undermine or belittle the Obama Presidency. The number of vessels currently cleaning up the oil inside U.S. Territorial waters is huge. They are the local fisherman who's livelihood has been threatened by the spill. B.P. Oil is paying them to clean up the spill. There is no doubt that the oil spill will cause some businesses to fail. There is no doubt that the spill will require years of effort to fix. And B.P. is far from perfect in their handling of the spill. But when the extreme right says that the Obama administration is not doing everything it can to help clean up the spill, they are lying. Another example of Fox news extremist views. We hope you will pardon our foray into political theater, we now resume our regularly scheduled inanity. Ciao for now.