Sure there's a lot of talk about about the U.S. House member who has received the most contributions from oil companies defending BP and labeling of the investigation a "shakedown," but that's just the MSM avoiding the real story!
"I think it is a tragedy of the first proportion that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown."
Are we so numbed to the omnipresent rape of our whimsical tongue that we allow conspicuously meaningless phrases like "first proportion" to spew forth from the mouths of some of our highest elected officials? And what about the news agencies for repeating this obscenity without even the slightest comment? There are no words for my shame.