Michael Brown is still not backing down from his claim that President Obama is playing politics with the Gulf Coast oil spill, saying last night that the administration wants “to use a crisis like this to shut down oil and gas drilling.”
Brown had said on Fox News on Monday that Obama delayed his response to the spill out of “pure politics,” and so he could “pander to the environmentalists” on offshore drilling “and say, ‘I’m gonna shut it down because it’s too dangerous.'”
Despite an earlier appearance yesterday on Hardball, during which Chris Matthews called some of his theories “insane,” Brown tripled down on his accusations to Anderson Cooper last night.
“They want this crisis so that they can respond to it,” said Brown, something he repeated several times throughout the interview. “They want a crisis like this so that they can use a crisis like this to shut down oil and gas drilling.”
Anderson Cooper, for his part, pushed back at Brown’s claims, asking him for evidence that this was what the President wanted.
Brown simply repeated: “They want to use the crisis.”
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