Amateur Megalomania

So we have this huge oil spill going on in the Gulf Coast, and I’ve noticed a decidedly sedate tone in the national media when reporting on the scene.  It seems likely that despite this thing going on now for ten days, perhaps the federal response could be called ‘less than vigorous’.  Now, I’m willing to be charitable in saying that the Feds likely do NOT have magical oil abatement powers that could stop this thing out to sea, and that landfall is unavoidable even if they acted on day one.

But as an intellectual exercise, can we imagine the media coverage today if President Bush was in office and the exact same thing was unfolding?

Can we at least be honest about the differences in tone we would be hearing from the media?

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