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Via Allahpundit at Hot Air, Matt Lauer interviews Barack Obama and is understandably incredulous when Obama reveals he hasn’t spoken to BP CEO Tony Hayward.  There is so much wrong with this I hardly know where to begin:

I have not spoken to him directly and here is the reason. Because my experience is when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he’s going to say all the right things to me. I’m not interested in words. I’m interested in actions.

So Obama’s experience when speaking to business leaders is that they misrepresent facts? And these leaders have been so consistently duplicitous, in Obama’s experience, that he doesn’t feel the least bit curious what the CEO of one of the world’s largest energy companies—and a company responsible for the worst environmental catastrophe in American history—might have to say? No interest whatsoever?

Moments later, when Lauer asks the president if he’d fire Tony Hayward, Obama replies that “he wouldn’t be working for” him– despite never having spoken to him.

If Hayward’s reaction to the spill is so patently horrible that it merits his firing without so much as a conversation, then why the hell is Obama still permitting him to lead the efforts to fix this mess?

Maybe Obama believes that chief executives are just impotent figureheads. He certainly seems to have embraced that role for himself.

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UPDATE: MikeM adds,

For someone so “cool, calm and collected” he’s really a rhetorically careless fucktard.

UPDATE: Touched By Fire has more.

I think this exchange does a lot to wipe away the guise that Obama has any idea what he’s doing. And it’s genuinely kind of frightening.