Well, maybe all those years of Tony Blair built a tolerance among the Brits for smarmy and supercilious, but..

Tony Hayward is so unbelievably insincere in his new TV commercial ("Oh I'm so concerned about having destroyed a large part of your country -- and we have a lot of BP employees down here who are also upset. "), he makes the robotic Mitt Romney -- a simulacrum of Vril made as an impersonation of an actual human being -- makes Mr Mitt, in terms of sincerity,  seem like Mahatma Ghandi.


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