Fox businesses Stuart Varney a staunch
Pro Frakker had the anti-fracking
director of Gasland on his program in
the past few days and it went pretty
much exactly how you'd think it would
let's watch the EBA quoting from their
report on fracking okay that's getting
oil and gas from deep underground here's
what they said we did not find evidence
that these mechanisms have led to
widespread systemic impacts on drinking
water well hold on a second that's what
I took is the conclusion you disagree
with it correct
well absolutely in fact the EPA issued
certain something of a retraction of
that statement this weekend because it
led to a lot of false reporting on the
subject once so we're actually seeing
here is a pattern within the Obama
administration is specifically with
regards to fracking and the EPA which is
that when you see a scientific report
now this report is a thousand pages long
nobody expects everyone over the weekend
to have read the entire thing but within
the report is actually really damning
evidence about fracking contaminating
wastewater in Pennsylvania that's right
wait wait wasn't that the actual way
that fracking was conducted
it was mistaken in how fracking was done
Oh was opposed to the houses so if this
report says is that fracking
contaminates wastewater now I'm a
groundwater not white water groundwater
what what the EPA does have not the time
and time ago two aquifer is yes aquifers
what the EPA is done time and time again
on this issue is issue a scientific
report which has actual science in it
and then slap on the top of it
a press release or a statement that says
oh nothing relate to see here so I can't
decide whether I despised the way stuart
varney talks or I'm actually amused and
enjoy the way that he talks no okay I
like a little British in our news yes
mr. smolla room so I'll get back to that
in a second because the second clip is
much funnier when they get into a fight
somebody gets kicked out but to the
substance of the story what Josh Fox is
reporting there and referring to is
explain a little bit more in detail in
his blog where he says in this
particular EP is study they did no new
case studies so all they did was study
the stuff that had happened in the past
a says they drop three Markey Markey
cases
proved water contamination and dropped
all air quality studies from the report
now his thesis is Obama administration
wants to do as much you know drilling a
getting energy from every source they
can as possible so they want to paint
things in a pro-corporate light so even
though there's good science in the
report is he explained there uh this
spin on it is pro-corporate
that makes Marty's head explode he's
except they're right he thinks Obama's a
Maoist yeah so he's like what do you
mean Obama Pro Corporation is Pro
fracking that seems to me says right in
the segment that shouldn't be news to
you you're in Fox Business Network yeah
what Obama does is pro corporate time
and time again he gave a corporate state
how corporate profits doing right now
they're record raking record raking okay
but again it's not a matter of opinion
these are facts right so president Obama
has allowed record fracking record oil
drilling record offshore drilling they
just agreed to do Arctic drilling I mean
after the disaster in the Gulf he reopen
the Gulf or drilling again anyway ready
so those are not opinions like you think
he's a socialist I can think he's a
corporatist
but I have the facts on my side and it's
overwhelming but he dismisses it out of
hand I go Bob Leo all hey yeah so so
obviously there's that there's inability
to accept the actual evidence of what
the Obama administration's done is
energy policy there's also as we're
gonna see in this next clip there's the
natural hypocrisy that almost every
conservative has when it comes to energy
policy and how it affects other people
and how it affects themselves like they
don't want you know the the windmills
and things like that off the shore where
they live but they're fine with it in
other places you're gonna see that exact
sort of hypocrisy in this clip really
boy I own property in that area a new
motto motto motto to me said at the very
core to would not fry bought it 12 years
ago yes way before fracking has even
talked about it
Hershel Brent do you walk that you would
not frack them why would you think not
frakkin your own property and then
prescribe it further because I'm in the
watershed and let me finish my story and
everybody bought it 12 years ago it was
a joke in the area this is way before
fracking appeared it was a joke in the
area that if you turn the tap on you
could light the water
listen brother that was way before
fracking and in fact I am your neighbor
oh yeah my neighbor
yes I was there at the probit aureus is
not premier in the middle of a vacuum
there are 470 scientific reports right
now peer-reviewed that state that
fracking contaminates groundwater that's
bad interesting that Republic how I'm
wrong lighting the tap water before
fracking or appear our apps I'm not
reading it myself because what we're
talking I did it myself I do believe you
are lying right now
lie on the point yes I do run your young
man the interview is over I am not lying
okay I did it myself if you said to me
earlier that you want fracking in your
own name you're out of here son possible
for you to see you are on the out of
here that the rest of America
I don't call me a liar you don't do that
so I let me do it yours clearly
obfuscating the truth talking over again
during this thing that's it thank you
very much sir would you please leave
that is is that little dish gonna say if
you turned a riley's polite ohmmeter to
20 that's what every episode of The
O'Reilly Factor would be I am gonna be
the cop that stops it okay how much fun
was that I love that okay that's good
television
yes no but if he was done you just go to
commercial right yeah the thing is he
couldn't let it go you cannot call me a
lot but he already called you a liar
dude he okay and easy like okay you are
not allowed to but he did he would you
please leave okay
I like even the way he says son like is
it like a southern way of saying son you
don't son right and say like that's a
little intimidating right here is it
okay son
okay man young man you are done here as
I go to class
not be having this discussion anyway
eventually he did leave Josh Fox but he
immediately went his room but so I don't
know why people flip out so much when
somebody cues them of lying right so a
guy get it no I don't get it right so
because our whole brain is built on
honesty so if it should offend anyone it
should offend me the most right I I've
been honest I think often times still
fault if you're a member of the Young
Turks even heard the post-games
honest to a fault right but if somebody
says Jake you're a liar go well okay
whatever that's like your opinion man
you probably say literally that I don't
like why the people like if you say
lying though in these circles in polite
circles in New York DC you can drones
like a wedding accidentally killed 21
people not a big deal not I mean like I
know the grandparents are there the kids
are that not a big deal you call someone
a liar though are dude yeah you're done
son
right like that cut cut no we're cutting
they're cutting right no no biscuits for
him don't give him biscuits when we go
to break to be fair I didn't love the
way Josh interrupted him so much I
actually thought he was slightly ruder
than the Fox host which is unusual right
yeah but it's a minor difference in in
how you conducted a you know yourself as
a guest on show hey I wouldn't have cut
him over that right um but I do like
that he called him a liar on TV like
because nobody ever does that cuz for
the reasons I just except I'm back yeah
and he's like he pulled a mankiewicz
right there on TV he's like no frankly I
don't believe her story I think you made
it up yeah he probably did make it up he
probably did and even if even if he
didn't it doesn't matter first of all he
said it was 12 years ago way before
people were talking about fracking I'm
not interested when they were talking
about fracking were they doing fracking
there I don't care if the people are
discussing it and honestly like you
could there could be places where you
can set your water on fire and then
there can be other places where you
wouldn't be able to until the chemicals
that allow you to set it on fire are
released because of hydraulic fracking
it doesn't mean that there's no other
place where you can do it it just means
that that makes it more likely when
you're not
the fracking was you get oil out of the
ground from do you don't get will you
blow the earth up so it releases
it from all these different pockets you
literally blow up the whole earth
John oil goes in oil goes out you can
explain that okay but I can't explain
right that's the limit of my knowledge a
fracking uh but but to the heart of the
issue here again so one I'm with Josh I
really believe his story okay but okay
fine I probably wouldn't as said he was
lying because I can prove that he's
lying yeah right um but but Josh John is
absolutely right because look at some
times that the chemicals that caused the
water to be able to be lit are naturally
released but oftentimes because of
fracking their release when they
wouldn't normally be real natural right
unnaturally as the Frank knows that's
what Josh Fox showed in his movie right
about fracking so the fact that it
happened once to you is not dispositive
it is at best anecdotal that would only
register as any evidence yes so but in
you know Fox the worldviews like if it
happened to me it's real if it didn't
happen to me doesn't exist yeah right
like if cops don't pull me over slam me
into the ground right they don't shoot
me when I'm unarmed so I don't believe
it ever happens yeah right and finally
were probably or were I guess we haven't
focused on enough but he specifically
referenced something that he had been
told by the host I guess during a break
I suppose you know like a host will tend
to talk during breaks where he was like
no I'm not gonna allow fracking there
even though he says other people's land
should be fracked on that's the sort of
pop apocrypha that I was referencing
there of course they don't want it on
their own land he said why don't you out
there all because I'm on the watershed
oh you don't want to interfere with your
water then well that's the whole
point that we're talking about
that's exactly right John in in in Texas
this is a somewhat famous case that
happened recently where they the first
place they ever started fracking the
country uh bat bandit that city man did
because it was causing all these
problems and they like look we're not
fundamentally opposed and they literally
said this to fracking uh as long as you
don't do it in our backyard yeah do to
somebody else and I'll use their energy
we saw what happens when you do it here
and and
we never did an update on the store but
that update is the Greg Anna the
governor governor of Texas said no screw
your Liberty in your freedom in your
democracy from now on you will not be
able to pass local ordinances banning
fracking in Texas others I get paid so
much money from the fracking companies
as the governor that I'm going to
invalidate your local laws and say you
must have fracking whether you like it
or not nice Putin move there by Abbott
half right and so this whole idea of the
Republicans are for freedom nonsense
they're for protecting their own
backyard and and in getting donors and
forcing this stuff upon all of us he
gave that town a tall glass of shut up
juice and then he lit it on fire by the
way I don't know if you know this or
Riley then saw this got really men and
followed Josh Fox out of the studio
really yelling
had enough it's good you're gonna get it
I'm coming to your house I'm coming to
your house and lighting your water on
fire