Wednesday 14 September 2011 | Blog Feed | All feeds
Sign in or register-->By Janet Daley World Last updated: June 16th, 2010
Comment about this Discuss this short article
Barack Obama addresses the US in the Oval Office (Photo: Reuters)
The BBC reports of Barack Obama's speech last night are about as derisive as it would be possible to be about someone you were describing only a few months ago as the incarnation of Hope and Optimism. Yes indeed, the romance has ended. The British media decided that it was all a cruel deception: Obama is just one more ranting populist president who will do anything to divert attention from their own failure to get a grip. Which is not just about BP and the fate of all those pension funds.
Nor is it simply the demonising of Big Oil – which makes the US president sound as though he were recruiting his speech writers direct in the student union – which has evoked the UK media's collective sneer. What's been much commented upon – especially by those fastidiously liberal BBC correspondents – is Obama's pointedly bellicose language: the united states looks like it's engaged in a "battle" to become waged in very personal, anthropomorphic terms "against an oil spill that's assaulting" its coast. Considering how relentlessly the Bush "war on terror" was ridiculed,uggs boots on sale, just how long does it take prior to the Obama "war with an oil slick" is labelled as absurd? Given the tone of this morning's coverage,cheap uggs, perhaps not so long at all.
http://www.apclaims.com