Yeah, the sad thing is that my friend, living on the Atlantic side of Florida was soooo sure that they were not threatened in any way by the GoM disaster. I guess the shutdown of the Loop Current didn't happen soon enough to prevent the oil plumes from sneaking around the tip of Florida and up the coast.
Re: the insulting MSM - they are totally owned by 5 or 6 mega corporations, most of whom are heavily involved in the military industrial congressional complex, so what do you expect? It is what it is, and intelligent folk have had to root out the real news from offshore sources and the few independent investigative journalists left on the interwebs....since way before 911.