Well, isn’t this Broderlicious?
As sinister as the jet stream of escaping oil and gas looks via the underwater camera in the gulf, Barack Obama has not yet moved into the category of the late-night patsy that Jimmy Carter became. The Iranians were more clever, or diabolical, in exploiting their hostages than the restrained BP executives or their enviro foes are in this situation.
Okay, ‘enviro foes’? Really? The only people who are pissed off at BP are environmentalists? And how exactly are these BP executives showing restraint? Restraint against what? Boring more uncappable wells a mile below the surface of the sea?
Obama keeps popping up in new settings, sounding as if he is in command, and he has refused to be confined to the White House as Carter was by the hostage crisis. His good-guy Coast Guard retired admiral has not melted under the pressure, and the BP execs we’ve seen on TV refuse to play cartoon capitalists, instead conveying the sense that they grieve over the accident.
Funny that Broder linked to BP CEO Tony Hayward making the following statement…
“We’re sorry for the massive disruption it’s caused their lives. There’s no one who wants this over more than I do. I would like my life back.”
…and not to Hayward’s apology for saying that he wants his life back when he’s destroyed so many other’s lives. I mean, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal called Hayward an idiot for making that statement. He called him an idiot for saying there are other places to find shrimp. He basically mocked the man for being a cartoon capitalist. Bobby Jindal did that.
You know what else is funny. At the top of his column, I thought he was talking about Treme, Spike Lee, and Katrina instead of Nightline, Ted Koppel, and the Iranian Hostage Crisis.
They haven’t built a popular new television program around it — yet. No one has created a new media franchise for himself out of it. There isn’t a name for it that has become part of popular culture.
Yeah, Katrina would be the obvious and topical comparison, but that would involve invoking the name of George W. Bush in a negative way. Better to link Obama to Jimmy Carter while defending the honor of the people who caused this catastrophe.
Wank on. Wank off.
“The Iranians were more clever, or diabolical, in exploiting their hostages than the restrained BP executives or their enviro foes are in this situation.”
What an incredible sentence. So Americans are the hostages and BP is trying to exploit us like the Iranians did THEIR hostages but are not clever enough? Or maybe not diabolical enough? Or is it the “enviros” who are not diabolical enough? No, that can’t be right. The “enviros” are surely the ones not clever enough.
So all we did was destroy a whole coastline, wipe out a unique and precious ecology, impoverish untold numbers of people dependent on that ecology, but by god at least nobody got kidnapped or waterboarded. Yet another demo of the joy of centrism.
I’m sure he means the enviro-foes are the hostage takers.
Broder: fail. More accurate comparison would be Viet Nam war and the anti-war peace movement, where BP is the Vietnam war (the war itself, not a given party to the war). I say this b/c of oil-spill-cam plus the ‘tubes of course, means it doesn’t matter what ol’ -want-my-life-back-Tony says, we can see what is going on. Wasn’t it all that Vietnam tv footage that did in the warmongering?
oil spillcam There are many others that I can’t get to run on my computer
I think we can assume that our Wanker Emeritus will always say the most ridiculous and stupid things because that;s who the man is. He’s a creature of his native habitat, specifically a member of that species Washingtonian Beltway Eliticus.
A pity BP’s oil catastrophe didn’t happen in his backyard. His is one species that deserves extinction.
No doubt.
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(The Guardian) – BP’s under-fire chief executive Tony Hayward has admitted that the company was not adequately prepared to fight the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, as pressure mounted on the company not to pay its annual dividend to shareholders.
Hayward told the Financial Times it was “entirely fair” to criticise BP for not being better equipped to fight a leak 5,000 feet below the surface. He said the oil giant needed to develop new techniques for such crises, rather than using decades-old methods.
“What is undoubtedly true is that we did not have the tools you would want in your toolkit,” said Hayward in an interview with the FT.
Will Deepwater sink the 101-year-old BP?
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."I don’t know who’s worse these days. Broder, or Friedman.
Where are the foaming-at-the-mouth Envirobaggers yelling:
I want my country back!
I saw them put the cap over the top and now I can’t tell but the oil flow is definitely disturbed. Like something is setting on top of the “riser”? Something bad may have just happened. I can see nothing now.
CNN Live Feed
Its clear and they have the cap on the riser according to CNN. There is oil pooring out from around it but its on! Hopefully they will be able to syphon through it. It would be a great relief!
“BP’s Hayward promised Thursday that the company would clean up every drop of oil and “restore the shoreline to its original state.”
“BP will be here for a very long time. We realize this is just the beginning,” he said.”
How noble and magnanimous of him to re-assure us in this way. If there’s one thing the last 6 weeks have shown it’s that we can trust this nice and awkward british chap. He’ll see us through. Still, I’d feel a little better about it if the justice department froze their assets and put some executives under indictment, but that’s just me and my funny old emphasis on punishing socially destructive criminality.
who gives a shit about Hayward’s apology for saying a shitty thing? I sure don’t: his company’s actions belie his sincerity. They are deliberately hiding the extent of the damage, or did you not see the afrticle yesterday in which a BP contractor had to sneak a reporter out into the marshes?
This is part of a long history of violations: 780 or something like that. Pipeline explosions in Alaska, refinery explosions in Texas, and now the Gulf.
Broder can blow me. Take out the teeth, and BLOW ME.