Bill Randall Responds to the Biesecker Spin on his BP Comments

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The press is characterizing this as a back-down. It is only a back-down in the sense that Randall did not reaffirm the press spin of his previous statements regarding the Gulf Spill.

The press (read Michael Biesecker of the NewsObserver.com whose story the AP ran with) spun the statements as an accusation rather than the ruminations they were.

Another piece by Michael Biesecker on the Randall/BP statements that hints at Biesecker's biases on Bill Randall's statements can be found here and is titled the less than honest: In video, Randall says Feds and BP spilled oil on purpose. Randall never said what the title suggests, but it helps Bernie Reeves if people think he did.

The ties between and Bernie Reeves and Michael Biesecker have been explored before by Polifrog here and in The Only Conclusion Is Collusion. Without Bill Randall's most recent BP statements, though, the suspected Bernie Reeves and Michael Biesecker collusion has been only mildly effectual. Politicians should never ruminate, but fortunately for Bernie Reeves, Bill Randall, being a political rookie, did just that. And fortunately for Reeves, he had a Biesecker megaphone.






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