Levin: BP hearings are a “Soviet-style spectacle” and are part of a “huge cover-up” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 06/18/10 1:23 PM EDT From the June 17 edition of ABC Radio Network's The Mark Levin Show: Video file Previously: Limbaugh calls BP hearings a “show trial ... this is what happened in Stalinist Russia” Kristol and Krauthammer accuse Congress of “persecut[ing]” BP, compare proceedings to “Inca ritual slaughter” Beck compares BP congressional hearing to “Salem witch trials,” lawmakers to “thugs and bullies” Beck: Lawmakers in BP hearing “will be held in front of an eternal judge” and “will be praying” for “the mercy of Guantánamo” Beck mocks BP investigation: “You people in Washington, I don't even know what you do ... besides stealing from the American people”
