Barbour compares small animals suffocating from oil to people covered in toothpaste

[NNN0LHI]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/06/03/barbour-oil-toothpaste/

On Tuesday, “oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster hit Mississippi shores for the first time,” covering about two miles of Petit Bois Island’s beach. As ThinkProgress noted, the appearance of oil onshore led Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour to shift his upbeat rhetoric about the approaching oil, acknowledging that “this could turn out to be something catastrophic and terrible.” But after Barbour visited Petit Bois Island yesterday and saw that the oil that came ashore had “been washed away by storms,” he returned to the positive spin, saying, “I don’t think the island was hurt one iota.” Barbour even downplayed concerns about animals being suffocated by the oil in the ocean, comparing it to humans being covered in toothpaste:

Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Director Trudy Fisher said samples of what was apparently the same oil slick, taken when it was farther south of the barrier islands, were “nontoxic.” Fisher said water and weather had helped all the volatile chemicals in the oil evaporate. Barbour described the oil as “weathered, emulsified, caramel-colored mousse, like the food mousse.” “Once it gets to this stage, it’s not poisonous,” Barbour said. “But if a small animal got coated enough with it, it could smother it. But if you got enough toothpaste on you, you couldn’t breathe.” Barbour said he spoke with a member of President Barack Obama’s staff on Air Force One while he was on the island, after telling the administration in an early-morning conference call that oil had come ashore in Mississippi.

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Could you see our media if that BP guy has said this? They would be foaming at the mouth. Calling for his head on a platter. They must like good ole boy Haley.

[LynneSin]

1. Yes because I walk around all the time just smothered in Minty Fresh Crest

:eyes:

[jaxx]

2. Barbour just ain't right.

Must have been dropped on his head during his formative years. ;-)

[jpak]

3. This guy wants to run for president?

Does he think Americans are as stoopid as he is?

what a maroon

[Urban Prairie]

4. Mousse???

Barbour should test his theory out and have a constituent volunteer to cover him or herself in toothpaste, while he does the same with that "mousse", then both wait for about 24 hours before washing it off.

Enough toothpaste ON you, and it could then make you suffocate??...lmao!!

Maybe it could, but only if someone squirted "enough" tubes of toothpaste down his lying piehole!!

[charlesg]

5. Highly recommended by four out of five dentists

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. ignorant asshole

[Ganja Ninja]

7. Lets funnel a little into a tube and send it to him. n/t

[indepat]

8. Have alway thought Barbour to be a pious duplicitous hypocritical ass, but now I know he

is and then some. :P

[Urban Prairie]

9. Every RW politician and mouthpiece that attempts

to downplay to ANY degree the consequences of this ongoing catastrophe, should be forcibly put on a ship and taken a few miles out into the GOM, given a life preserver, and made to "walk the plank" off into the oily water.

They can then dog-paddle their way to shore, since they have glibly poo-pooed the potential that the gusher has and will have on the environment, and it's long and short term effects to humans and animal/marine life.

[Golden Raisin]

12. And their last meal

before walking the plank should be a big ol' platter of oil-covered shrimp a la BP.

[damntexdem]

10. He should be challenged to brush his teeth with the oil washing up on the beaches.

Then gargle with gasoline.

He might begin to appreciate the distinction.

[niceypoo]

11. Just wait til every inch of Mississippi shore is plastered with oil

Will be interesting to see how 'Boss Hogg' tries to spin his way out of it.

[Mimosa]

13. OMG Toss that BLOB in the oil slick way out in the GULF!!! n/t

[nichomachus]

14. Well, he is right

Covering someone in enough toothpaste would have a deleterious effect, which is why, if some company, through corporate malfeasance, dumped millions of gallons of toothpaste into an urban center, it would be disastrous. And we would probably want them to stop dumping it and clean up the mess -- and then pay for the damage.

Molasses is dangerous too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster

The Boston Molasses Disaster, also known as the Great Molasses Flood and the Great Boston Molasses Tragedy, occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 mph (56 km/h), killing 21 and injuring 150. The event has entered local folklore, and residents claim that on hot summer days, the area still smells of molasses.

[Bluebear]

15. Oh, delicious! Caramel mousse! Let's all go down and have dessert.

Asshole.