Over the past few days, the liberal media has been in a tizzy because BP CEO Tony Hayward went yachting this weekend. The liberal media wants us to be irritated about this, after all, how can this man go yachting when there's an oil spill?
This even came up at the White House press briefing when spokesman Bill Burton said, "You know, look, if Tony Hayward wants to put a skimmer on that yacht and bring it down to the Gulf, we'd be happy to have his help," which brought raucous laughter from the adoring press. Burton quickly followed with, "But what's important isn't what Tony Hayward's doing in his free time; it's what BP is doing to take... responsibility for the mess that they've made."
The White House should be careful since President Obama went to a baseball game on Friday night to watch Stephen Strasburg and the Washington Nationals against the Chicago White Sox. And then, on Saturday, the President played golf. And of course, this is what the right wing media wants me to be outraged about today. How can the President watch baseball and play golf when there's an oil spill, unemployment at 10%, a skyrocketing debt, and trouble in Afghanistan?
Look, I can't get outraged about either. Tony Hayward is an adult, as is President Obama. If they believe they can fit these leisure activities into their lives, then more power to them. We spend so much of our time trying to demonize our political opponents that we remain distracted from the real problems, and the media (both left and right) is guilty of promoting this. We have real problems in this country, and frankly, Obama's golf game and Tony Hayward's yacht don't even make the top 100.
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I think you're just trying to justify why you'll be golfing tomorrow while I'm still slaving away at work attempting to fix another mess you left behind. ;)
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