Anyway, the setup is that Hannity and Kennedy are talking about drilling in ANWR and oil generally. Hannity starts reading from report which he claims is from the U.S. Geological Survey. From May 17, 2001:
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HANNITY: In 1973, the United States imported 36 percent of its oil. Today, it's almost 60 percent that we're importing presently.
ANWR production, based on the lower numbers, anywhere between six billion -- six-trillion and 19-trillion barrels. ANWR production could percent of this entire refuge, for 30 years.
KENNEDY: Well, that's not true. That -- that's just a bogus...
HANNITY: U.S. Geo -- let me read you...
KENNEDY: That's a bogus...
HANNITY: The U.S. Geological Survey estimates oil...
KENNEDY: This is a misreport. I guarantee you, Sean. But let me tell you something else.
HANNITY: Excuse me. Well, no, no. No. Wait. Don't tell me. I'm reading from the U.S. Geological Survey estimates. It could be as much as 16-billion barrels of oil, which would be the largest supply of domestic oil ever discovered.
KENNEDY: Let me see that.
HANNITY: Right there.
KENNEDY: You're reading from an advertisement by the...
HANNITY: No, I am not.
KENNEDY: ... Energy Steward Alliance.
HANNITY: Let me -- let me put...
KENNEDY: Wait a minute. This is not honest, Sean.
HANNITY: Get my still ready from the Boston paper.
KENNEDY: Sean, this is not honest.
HANNITY: Get my -- get my still ready from the Boston paper.
KENNEDY: This is not honest to say that you're reading from the Geological Survey.
HANNITY: Excuse me. Excuse me. Can I -- let's -- it is -- let me quote...
KENNEDY: No. This isn't -- this is from an energy propaganda.
[Kennedy reaches over and takes it out of his hands]
HANNITY: Give me my paper!
(LAUGHTER)
HANNITY: Can I -- I'm going to put up from the Boston -- hang on a second. Hang on a second. From the -- from the Boston paper. Here it is. This is from "The Boston Herald," your neck of the woods, hardly a right- wing paper.
KENNEDY: "The Boston Herald"?
HANNITY: Environmental...
KENNEDY: Are you kidding me? That's as right wing as...
HANNITY: Well, you -- you want to discourage everyone. This is the U.S.
KENNEDY: Well, this is not the U.S. Geological Survey.
HANNITY: Wait. Excuse me. Wait a minute. I have the survey. I have the -- wait a minute.
KENNEDY: Sean...
HANNITY: I'm going to show you the survey.