Torpedo, Baby, Torpedo 0
The wingnut mafia has started to float a theory that the oil gusher in the Gulf resulted, not from an accident, but from sabotage.
This seems to serve two purposes:
- Divert the attention from Big Oil.
- Provide an enemy about whom to panic (see my post from Monday on the rhetoric of panic).
Noz deconstructs the argument:
if you’re going to come up with a conspiracy theory to suit your political purposes, maybe you should make sure it actually suits your political purposes.
Afterthought:
A reader of TPM suggests that an undercurrent to this is to drum into persons dear little ears until they believe it that the government’s response was slow.
