Given this, it's not surprising that the paper would run a letter that somehow toes the party line when it comes to supporting Bug Energy. But today's letter from Bob Kellog of Edmond goes beyond that. It's just plain stupid, saying, in effect: I love Big Energy. Read it and see:
I don’t know whether the oil and gas industry is helping to cause some of the earthquakes we’ve been feeling. But if perchance they are, then I want to thank the industry. Thank you for helping us have these little temblors instead of the big monster that could shake this town down around us!WHAT ON FUCKING EARTH IS HE TRYING TO SAY? I mean, we get the first part: he doesn't know anything. But what's the second part about? If fraking IS causing Oklahoma's earthquakes, he's happy because, I guess, they aren't BIG earthquakes? As though there is real agency here: OG&E could be really destroying the Oklahoma landscape-- but they aren't!! Thanks be to OG&E!
Like, he literally said "thanks for helping us have these little" earthquakes! HELPING! And WHY is he thankful? Because they're little and not "the big monster" quake that would destroy a city. Not "thanks because it makes me more aware of the fragility of life" or something. It really is "thanks, taskmaster, for not beating me more because you could have and it would have been deserved" craziness.
I know I ask "would any real newspaper run this" after discussing a letter that the Oklahoman runs. But this goes beyond that. This fuckass is literally thanking energy companies for small earthquakes because at least they aren't bigger. He's thanking them. As though they have actual control over such things, and are just holding back because cocksuckers like Mr Kellog here are bowing down to them.
It's unreal. And THIS is the state's best newspaper. Pathetic.
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