{"id":66092,"date":"2011-09-05T12:51:55","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T19:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=66092"},"modified":"2011-09-05T12:51:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T19:51:55","slug":"keith-olbermann-lights-into-president-obama-about-smog-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2011\/09\/05\/keith-olbermann-lights-into-president-obama-about-smog-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Keith Olbermann Lights Into President Obama About Smog Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Countdown” host Keith Olbermann is not happy with the Obama administration. According to The Huffington Post<\/a>, Olbermann went off on the president and his decision to halt the impending clean-air regulation<\/a> that would be aimed at reducing smog, a regulation that could help improve many people’s health. The announcement to keep the criticized 2006 regulations in place until 2013 at the very least was made by the White House Friday, Sept. 2. <\/p>\n

Olbermann asks\/demands in his voiceover introduction to his Sept. 2 episode, “What the hell is going on in the White House?”<\/p>\n

“It seems, in short, to reduce his campaign logic to ‘What are you going to do, vote for Rick Perry?'” said Olbermann during the show. “…The presidents hands a victory to corporate polluters and their enablers in the GOP and uses some of their own job creation nonesense lingo in the process, giving his own supporters another whack at the knees for having had the audacity to support him.”<\/p>\n

According to Olbermann’s broadcast, While Lisa Jackson, the EPA Administrator, said that the Bush smog standards that were put in place “were not legally defensible given the scientific evidence,” and the EPA had originally planned to set their standards much higher than the Bush standards. But Obama stated that those standards would be obsolete soon anyway, and “[w]ork is already underway to update a 2006 review of the science that will result in the reconsideration of the ozone standard in 2013. Ultimately, I did not support asking state and local governments to begin implementing a new standard that will soon be reconsidered.”<\/p>\n

Olberman said, “So if you’re having trouble breathing, or if you just occasionally do breathe, kindly help the president out and hold your breath until the year 2013 or later.”<\/p>\n

You can watch the full segment below the post. <\/p>\n