'60 Minutes' Promotes $27-Billion Leftist 'Fraud' Efforts Against Chevron

[Meanwhile, in our 'professional' media...]

When $27 billion is at stake, some companies would pay big bucks to win a PR battle, but one side of an environmental lawsuit doesn't have to, since CBS is pushing its position for free.

On CBS's May 3 "60 Minutes," correspondent Scott Pelley, who once compared global-warming skepticism to Holocaust denial, gave the plaintiff of a $27-billion frivolous lawsuit against Chevron a public relations victory with his report.

Pelley's report featured a suit filed by the Amazon Defense Coalition, a group described as "eco-radicals," who are trying to squeeze $27 billion from Chevron for environmental cleanup that the nation's government signed off on more than a decade ago. Pelley described ADC as working on behalf of 30,000 villagers, although there are only 48 named plaintiffs, to win funds for so-called environmental damage in Ecuador's rain forest from then-Texaco Petroleum's (Texpet) operation of oil well sites.

Pelley gave a heavily one-sided report and featured six individuals who had a stake in the outcome against Chevron, versus just one spokeswoman for the defendant - Silvia Garrigo, Chevron's manager of global issues and policy.

Throughout Pelley's account, footage was shown that included at least 13 images of currently polluted pits, none of which were Texaco-remediated sites, but weren't attributed to PetroEcuador either. According to Campbell, the polluted sites Pelley featured were PetroEcuador's Lago Agrio 5 and one of the Shushufindi sites.

Pelley left out everything from huge problems in the Ecuadorian courts to the close ties the lead attorney has with a prominent former U.S. senator - President Barack Obama...

[The show stopped being credible decade's ago]

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