Am I a self-hating Brit because I find excuses for BP completely pathetic? Are all BP-bashers Anglophobes?

Nah.

On the other hand, would a congressman who declared that an Israeli accent on TV probably means someone is lying be deemed a normal part of the discourse?

Nah too.

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