{"id":2010,"date":"2010-06-24T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2010-06-24T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T10:28:09","slug":"is-barton-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/24\/is-barton-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Barton Sorry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe \u201cBP\u201d Barton was sorry for apologizing to BP before he wasn’t, before he was, before he wasn\u2019t.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"24barton\"<\/a> Earlier today, Joe Barton once again apologized to BP, <\/span>Tweeting<\/a> an article defending his apology under the header "Joe Barton was right." And just like last time, he swiftly retracted the apology, deleting the Tweet and retracting the reapology. This time, Barton’s spokesman is taking the blame, <\/span>telling<\/a> Greg Sargent that the office never meant to publicly promote the article on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n

Without thinking about it much, I added a headline from one of the daily news clips to a website that is, in turn, linked to the congressman’s Twitter account. I won’t be doing that again. <\/p>\n

The site in question is hxxp:\/\/repjoebarton.amplify.com\/ [oil pig delinked], a public website that promotes Joe Barton and his policy views. So even if Barton’s office never intended to push the article defending his apology on Twitter, it’s obvious they were publicly promoting it at on Barton’s amplify.com site. And just like last time, now that it’s gotten attention, Barton’s office is trying to control the political damage.<\/p>\n

It’s yet more evidence that Joe Barton meant what he said when he apologized to BP and that his retraction was about politics…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Keith Olbermann and Chris Hayes discuss Barton, other GOP foibles and the trials of Teabuggery.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Like I have repeatedly said, Barton was never sorry.  He was acting under orders from the GOP leadership.  That\u2019s why he\u2019s still ranking member on energy and will not be removed.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe \u201cBP\u201d Barton was sorry for apologizing to BP before he wasn’t, before he was, before he wasn\u2019t. Earlier today, Joe Barton once again apologized to BP, Tweeting an article defending his apology under the header "Joe Barton was right." And just like last time, he swiftly retracted the apology, deleting the Tweet and retracting […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}