Apologizing To His Masters

And basically leading to a great political day for all Democrats:

That is what you do for your masters.

The White House and Democrats have gone right away at seizing on Barton's unbelievable stupidity.

"What is shameful is that Joe Barton seems to have more concern for big corporations that caused this disaster than the fishermen, small business owners and communities whose lives have been devastated by the destruction. Congressman Barton may think that a fund to compensate these Americans is a 'tragedy', but most Americans know that the real tragedy is what the men and women of the Gulf Coast are going through right now. Members from both parties should repudiate his comments."

And how did the TV people cover it??

Update 4 -- CNN and MSNBC both replayed Barton's apology to BP at the top of the hour. Fox completely ignored it. Go figure. CNN also played Markey's response.

I guess Barton's other masters at Fox didn't want to see their slave's laughable Gaffe Candidate For the Year moment.