While the BP drilling rig a mile beneath the sea in the Gulf of Mexico continues to spew thousands of barrels of oil per day, threatening the ecosystem of the entire region, the damage it is causing does not stop there. Sadly, at a time when all humankind should be coming together to find a solution to this calamitous event, instead there are forces at work attempting to use this disaster to further the already widespread philosophical divide among Americans that began with the Bush/Cheney neocon invasion of 2001 and continues to this day.

This attendant damage, which is becoming more widespread daily across the length and breadth of our country, comes in the form of the preposterous garbage being spewed over the airwaves, through television and radio, with regards to what is fast becoming one of the most catastrophic man-made disasters in history. Consider the following comments made recently on-air:

"The sea ‘eats’ oil.... the sea eats oil ‘alive’... That place up there, nature cleaned it up faster than we ever could...." This from one of the foremost scientific minds of our time, Rush Limbaugh, referring to Prince William Sound in Alaska, site of the tragic Exxon Valdez disaster of March, 1989. Apparently, he was attempting to draw a parallel between that oil spill and the one in the Gulf of Mexico as a way of convincing his audience that it’s really no big deal. Why worry? is the message he’s hoping the gullible will swallow; why, just look at Prince William Sound today, which according to Professor Rush, is "pristine."