An Oil Industry Lobbyist Was Secretly Taped Suggesting Digging Up Dirt On Liberal Celebrities

Ifthose eviloilbaroncharactersintheMuppetMovieseemedunrealistic(or likeclasswarfare,ifyou’reFoxNews),you’veprobablyjustneverheardofRichardBerman.Thepoliticalconsultantworkingwiththeoilandgasindustrywasrecentlytapedadvising industryexecutives thattheyneedtostartplayingdirty,sayinghisbuddiesneedto “bepreparedtoemploytacticslikediggingupembarrassingtidbitsaboutenvironmentalistsandliberalcelebrities.”Nowordonwhetherhethenbittheheadoffachickenandcackleduntilthefrontrows’facesmelted.