Obama admin bans press from filming BP oil spill areas in the Gulf

CNN’s Anderson Cooper discusses how the Obama administration is limiting access by the media to areas affected by the BP Macondo well spill.
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  1. aaron1a12 says:

    What about the freedom of speech/transparency? What the fuck is this?

  2. libyanboy1989 says:

    is this the same government that invaded iraq to turn it to democratic country?????

  3. imjinc2k says:

    65 feet? What you guys never watch sports on TV? Do you really think there are little invisible cameramen hovering around the players’ heads? CNN can’t afford a Zoom lens? What a load of crap.

  4. susieham says:

    @hyarke Are you serious! Where have you been? Under what grounds is this a crime? How about freedom of speech! The reason you can’t find anything about it on mainstream news is because ALL mainstream media AND the government is owned by the corporations responsible. For your own sake, wake the F–k up!

  5. gyokusai4ever says:

    This is as outrageous today as it was when I first watched this on CNN in July. Change—yeah, right.

  6. hyarke says:

    Ok people calm down, is there any fact to back this up? Under what grounds is this a crime? And how come you can’t find any documentation for it in the news or from the federal government?

  7. PatrickSikorski12 says:

    Ummm i don’t think you deserve a reply so i will publicly post this…… bush didn’t give permission to mine in Alaska when he was informed of risks that was a ship accident so it was nothing compared to obama giving permission for that well to be drilled….. not to mention recent proof that the oil spill pictures etc. where doctored to raise charity money to help the nations debt….. the oil well that supposedly leaked so much was actually almost dead……

  8. betover68 says:

    I get the impression that Cooper Anderson really likes reporting this story about oil, or in his vocablary, lube

  9. Sakamachi25 says:

    The police are the foot soldiers in this assault on American rights. Exercise your 2nd amendment right and don’t be afraid to shoot them down. Police are the enemy of the people.

  10. LibertyTeamsUnited says:

    PLEASE SEE MY CHANNEL IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN DOING SOMETHIGN ABOUT THIS.

  11. PROFILESophiaYates says:

    @visionfirst1970 there r connections to the company Nalco the Corexit company to Lehman Brothers & Goldman Sachs financially in investments. We bailed them out & now were being taken out in all directions. Financially & environmentally. Take away our finances our homes and our health and we die. Just like they wanted. Follow the money and the related companies and friends. We don’t have a prayer is right.

  12. PROFILESophiaYates says:

    Anderson cooper spent how much time documenting the Earthquake in Haiti and got it and now he wanted to document the Oil spill and this. But Im glad now he didn’t get to close. He would have been ill as well. I don’t know if he ever got in. I hope not. Now do you think the Earthquake was possibly connected to them breaking thru the earth crust? Did BP mess with the Small plate it lays on? Could the blasting or blow up from BP caused the Earthquake? When did it REALLY Happen? Dates please?hmm

  13. visionfirst1970 says:

    FUCK BP and Fuck the corporate bank controlled gov/media.

    Love the BP youtube propaganda channel,, no place for comments tho, strange.

    People better wake up and start believing there own eyes and ears, stop second guessing out of laziness. We do have the power and the numbers to put all this corruption and lies to bed,, permanately!! and the powers that be fucking know it.

  14. asdfgoogle says:

    @magicyte Oh, I gotcha. I agree too. It goes to youtube videos too. People filming their skits or whatever in public. Personally, I can’t say I would really care too much, but some people are really afraid of being on film, TV, youtube, etc.

  15. magicyte says:

    @asdfgoogle Just saying it’s a huge grey area of who people have a right to take pictures of. I’d imagine it would be no different than guys working on city roads not wanting to be constantly intruded on by photographers…especially when the photographer doesn’t have permission to take the photograph. I don’t even know what “Invasion of privacy” even covers anymore.

  16. asdfgoogle says:

    @magicyte I’m not quite sure what you’re asking.

  17. silverburzt says:

    then fly to afganistan and catch bin laden, or be a congressman or senator

  18. magicyte says:

    @asdfgoogle I know about that aspect…but it really doesn’t intrude that much. Restricting freedom is all dependant on the wants of who the actions are affecting. I would never condone someone taking a picture of my neighbourhood if I was in it…yet taking public pictures without the persons consent seems to be perfectly fine. Too many grey areas are what really screw us around. What about the rights of those who don’t want to be public that aren’t in a public field of work?

  19. asdfgoogle says:

    @magicyte I know you commented a week ago, but really, you lose a LOT of control and details of your pictures at that distance. But the main focus is on the higher ups lying, and restricting our freedom.

  20. Lowfun says:

    How governed.
    How controlled.
    How much rights do we need to lose?
    I’m losing my F^&*ing mind over this world and the %^&ing ignorant,stupid F$#%ing robots were all turning into.
    God F#$%ing damnit people. Don’t you all get the big picture?
    WTF is wrong with you all,
    I’m willing to lose my life for my beleifs, ARE YOU ?
    Ignorant , selfish F#$kTards.

  21. Toronto135 says:

    Big surprise! You put a niggah in power and this is what you get!

  22. kazakhization says:

    LITTLE MORE PANIC AND THEN THE GOVERNMENT WILL NAME THE (CAUSE) OF THIS DISSASTER AND START WAR. AND BOMB ITS OWN PEOPLE NUKE.

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  24. pianoman74 says:

    Feels like CHINA, doesn’t it ??

  25. dcscott0602 says:

    I liked being able to stay up-to-date on what was going on, but it just seemed like the more and more you saw come out of the well, the sicker and sicker a person would get. I say we pull the Obama/government routine and blame someone else that sounds completely ridiculous to blame. I point the finger at Richard Nixon. Everyone else gets blamed, so why not?

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