Pat Buchanan: Barton’s Apology To ‘Universally Loathed’ BP Was ‘Very Courageous’ (VIDEO)

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Not everyone’s criticizing or running from Rep. Joe Barton after the Texas Republican apologized to BP today. Pat Buchanan said on MSNBC that Barton’s defense of BP was “very courageous” considering that the oil giant is “universally loathed and despised and even hated.”

At today’s House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on the BP oil spill, Barton said this of the $20 billion Gulf spill fund that BP has agreed to create at the Obama administration’s request: “I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, in this case a $20 billion shakedown.”

Here’s what Buchanan had to say about it:

“Barton made a very courageous statement in my judgment, when you consider that BP is probably universally loathed and despised and even hated for what is happening, that horrendous tragedy down on the Gulf.”

To have anyone stand up and even indirectly defend them and say that they were the victim of a shakedown shows some political courage.

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