The blame game takes on a different meaning when the stakes suddenly involve more than 200 million gallons of oil, a four-month investigation, 11 lives, ecological calamity and billions of dollars in retribution.
The oil behemoth BP PLC released a 193-page report Wednesday, a report based on its own findings of whose fingers are and should be pointing at whom.
And what did the report find as a major cause of the oil rig's April 20 explosion, which just so happened to become the nation's worst environmental disaster? A sequence of failures.
Really, BP? That's the best you've got? A sequence of failures? Euphemizing an environmental biohazard that has resulted in irreparable harm to our waters, marine life, tourism and ability to fill up our tanks at your overpriced gas stations without feeling like a horrible person who is essentially burning sea turtles alive by stopping there as a "sequence of failures" is like labeling the attack on Pearl Harbor "a bad day."
And after waiting for oil to stop spewing into our Gulf of Mexico for four months, we realize another company actually owned Deepwater Horizon and, yes, we realize certain other companies built parts of the exploding rig that caused these "sequence of failures," but we all know who's ultimately responsible for this "bad day."
It's time to step up and accept responsibility for the mess you've made, BP. The name-calling and blame game is so last year.
As the reggae godfather Bob Marley said, "Before you start pointing fingers, make sure your hands are clean."
Stick it to ‘em, Bob.
