And Gabor Steingart is still a Bearded Clam

Actually it’s a collection of the editors’ political festishes, but in case you were wondering, and I know you weren’t, Clarsonimus has it all doped out for you:

In case you were wondering, and of course you weren’t. let Der Spiegel clear things up for you: “The Oil Catastrophe will be BP’s Katrina, not Obama’s”

On what evidence they can say this is beyond me. The White House has been late AND incompetent on the issue, but are managing to elicit sympathy from the US media, and even the foreign media.

Gosh. I wonder how THAT happens for people of one political persuasion while the opposite gets precisely the opposite, AND a passing complaint that ”Faux News” is biased, and must be banned in the interest of free speech, etc., etc., etal.

Otherwise they are silent and lacking in the kind of sanctimonious whining when real dictators and oppressive thugs are involved, even when their fellow angelic Europeans are complicit:

In fact, the main export to the EU from five of the seven countries that make up the Central African region (Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea), is oil. In particular, crude oil represents 88% of Equatorial Guinea’s exports to the EU.

And, of course, the places that THEY get their oil from has never had a spill, bad social consequence, or otherwise. Just the very fact that they’ve overturned regimes in Africa for oil, propped up dictators for it... none of this bears mentioning.

But if it doesn’t fit their ideology, and the single example that has been hammered into their heads through endless repetition, then Hurricane Katrina MUST be mentioned if the subject of the US comes up, and if the love of their Führerprinzip craving lives is threatened, they will go out of their way to construct a way to fit an oil company into a Katrina-esque meme. After all – all is Katrina, but travesties that their simple minds have to work to understand are, well, assumed by omission to be just plain okay.