bp again threatens cleanup workers. bring your own protective gear to protect your own help, you re fired. witness accounts next. first, time for tonight s worst persons in the world. lebron s, accused of plagiarizing at least 500 jokes from other comedians, mostly americans. the list includes the late george carlin and bill hicks. and emo phillips and lewis black, jay leno, chevy chase, woody allen, david letterman, jerry seinfeld and dan savage. dan savage? an example, the immortal hicks once complained that the audience at a club was so stupid, that when he offered once of his priceless deep jokes, they stared at me like a dog who has just been shown a card trick. one of his jokes, president bush stared like a great dane who was just shown a card trick. no truth to room oz that he has responded to the charges by saying on the holy would rather be in philadelphia.
what are you hearing about whether or not workers are even wearing their protective gear, are they being encouraged to wear it by bp or not? no, they re not being encouraged at all. i serve on a small community foundation that has been giving emergency grants that enable local groups to purchase respirators and protective gear that are provided at no charge to people in the gulf who are involved in the clean up. what we have been told by the folks who are involved in the cleanup work is that when they have come to the job site wearing their respirators and protective gear that they ve been provided, they were told by bp representatives that they would be terminated from employment if they wore them and had to, you know, get rid of them. this leads to something the associated press reported, that many of these workers with their four hours of training, who are not allowed to wear their own protective gear, never mind not being provided any by bp, would be the men who are out fish
not be closed. do we know how many of these cleanup workers, a percentage, perhaps, how many of them have to do this out of the economic necessity caused by this bp disaster in the gulf? the overwhelming majority of cleanup workers are the fishermen, shrimpers who have been put out of work by bp s oil disaster. and in fact, bp representatives have spoken very glowingly at community meetings that it s their goal to employ as many of these out of work fishermen and shrimpers as they can in order to minimize payouts for a loss of compensation. who s actually governmentally responsible for ensuring the safety and health of the people trying to do the cleanup here? there s a report i read that in that four-state region, osha has 25 employees. does it seem unavoidable that people are going to fall through the cracks? well, i think the situation with osha and the few resources and staffing that they have for the gulf region, it s part of this larger pattern, where we see this major fail
bp again threatens cleanup workers. bring your own protective gear to protect your own help, you re fired. witness accounts next. first, time for tonight s worst peshs in the world. lebron s, accused of plagiarizing at least 500 jokes from other comedians, mostly americans. the list includes the late george carlin and bill hicks. and emo phillips and lewis black, jay leno, chevy chase, woody allen, david letterman, jerry seinfeld and dan salve saj. dan savage? an example, the immortal hicks once complained that the audience at a club was so stupid, that when he offered once of his priceless deep jokes, they stared at me like a dog who has just been shown a card trick. one of his jokes, president bush stared like a great dane who was just shown a card trick. the runner-up, rush limbaugh. now that beck claims he intends
that. we heard a will the of language that was military in nature. thank goodness our army does not go to war like this. it raises a good point, billy and garland. if this was a war, james carville has been saying this, you have, the president has been say this is an assault on our shores, if we wage war the same way we waged this, would we survive? absolutely not. when you go to war, you throw everything at it you ve got. you don t take a ten-minute break and work 20 minutes because it s 90 degrees. you don t lay your weapons down if you re being shot at. this is attacking our way of life, our coastline. we ve taken a two-hour boat ride to a location, working 20 minutes and resting ten. bp cleanup workers, that s the way it works? absolutely. we re not getting anything accomplished. we ve got a lot of things out there. we re trying. but there s no organization in