It looks like Fox News v. White House is heating up again…
Ex-FEMA director Michael Brown said on Fox News last night the Obama administration wanted the oil spill to happen — and let it get really bad before stepping in so they’d have a good reason to scrap offshore drilling.
Today, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs struck back.
Fox News’ Wendell Goler asked during the press briefing about whether the oil spill was “President Obama’s Katrina.”
Gibbs pounced, and seized on the Brown interview.
“Fox had the very special, unique interview with Michael Brown — you opened it and I had to do it,” Gibbs said. “Who for those who weren’t let in on the big secret, Mr. Brown, FEMA director Brown under Katrina, intimated on Fox — and it wasn’t, I will editorially say, didn’t appear to be pushed back on real hard — that this spill was leaked on purpose in order for us to walk back our environmental and drilling decisions, and that the leak that we did on purpose got out of control and now is too big to contain.”
He continued:
I’m not entirely sure that a factual answer that I might give to any one of your questions is gonna change the notion that your network put out the former FEMA director to make an accusation that the well had been purposefully set off in order to change an offshore drilling decision.
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