Who's to blame for the gushing oil
well in the Gulf of Mexico? According to the executives of the companies
involved, it's the other guy. A cable show guest host calls it "The
Shaggy Defense."
Hayes,
the Washington, D.C. Editor of The Nation, guest hosted "The Rachel Maddow
Show" on Tuesday and lambasted BP, Halliburton and Transocean executives
for blaming everyone but themselves during testimony before Congress about the
continuing oil spill.
Hayes explained
that the "The Shaggy Defense" is based on the 2000 song "It Wasn't
Me" by reggae singer
Shaggy. The song, about a man caught cheating by his
lover, repeats "it wasn't me" over and over in its chorus.
Hayes says that's kind of like the oil
executives blaming their corporate partners for the spill, like Bush explaining
his administration's role on the WMD-Iraq War excuse, and like federal and
local officials who made excuses for their botched response to Hurricane
Katrina.
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