What immediately caught my attention about this "uncovered" audio that was never burried to begin with, is the only portion that the McCain campaign and the conservative media are highlighting is the segment where Obama says that coal companies would go bankrupt if they chose to build new coal plants the same way.
Considering the fact that Obama and McCain support clean-coal technology, this seems to be a rather pitiful "11th hour" attack. It doesn't take an ivy-league education to realize that Obama is talking about companies building plants that use outdated technology.
You can check out the full interview here.
But, this doesn't stop people like Drudge, Fox News, and one of the lunatic-fringes loudest and most ignorant voices, Michelle Malkin, from lying and claiming that Obama is out to "bankrupt the industry"
Here's something else you should all know. McCain's plan for the coal industry is pretty much the same:
Jed L had this to say of his video he posted on Daily Kos:
The clips I used from FOX were actually attacking Barack Obama, but the fact that you could just as easily have swapped McCain in place of Obama reveals how their media enterprise is really a propaganda operation in which political figures are nothing more than character actors taking up space in their pre-ordained dramatic narrative.
They aren't dealing with reality, they are trying to construct a new reality. For years, they've been able to maintain political power by doing just that, but now that the reality of their disastrous governance has caught up to them, their ability to lie their way to victory has been severely damaged.
From my point of view, it seems that Obama is wanting to push for carbon-capture coal plants like Canada is going to be doing:
The first coal-fueled plant capable of capturing and burying carbon dioxide will move forward this fall when Canada's Saskatchewan Power Corp. begins lining up vendors to build it.
Requests for proposals were sent to 10 companies, SaskPower, as the utility is known, said yesterday in a statement.
Canada, which will spend C$1.4 billion ($1.34 billion) on the plant, is incorporating oil recovery in the plans to offset costs, a different approach than the U.S., which canceled a similar plant last year. Slated for 2013, the Canadian facility will prevent 1 million tons a year of carbon dioxide emissions, Max Ball, the project's manager
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