Utah Mining President Bungles Rescue Communication: Families Outraged by His Bombastic Comments

I've been watching the story of the mine collapse in Utah with a growing sense of horror.

The president/owner of the Murray mining company has acted irresponsibly, giving false hope to the families of the missing miners. And he kept leading them on. It's just like the Sago mine disaster in West Virginia, where communications got royally screwed up and celebrations of joy went to sobs of sorrow within seconds.

They've all but given up the rescue efforts, saying that the miners may never be found. Unacceptable. The families need to be able to bury their loved ones.

I thought that they would have learned something from the Sago fiasco, but Mr. Murray got up there and re-created the same mistakes from the very first day. That was no earthquake that caused the collapse; seismologists and the government say that the seismic activity was the mine collapsing. The lack of seismic activity in areas beyond the mine itself is telling.

This guy is more bombastic than Jacques Chirac, the former president of France. For someone with as much experience as he has, he should have known better.

And now he's disappeared from the public eye, leaving the breaking of the bad news to his partners and subordinates. This guy needs to stay away from the press and the families.