I'm sorry but Gawker, you as a whole are simply quite ignorant when it comes to who is actually at fault in this entire mess. Sure, I think BP should pay for the cleanup, as they are the leasholding company, however they are not the only operators here, and the Federal government had regulators that utterly failed to do their job, while they surfed for porn and had drinking games on the taxpayer and BP's dime.

Halliburton built some of the hardware that failed.

TransOcean owns and operates the rig.

BP is the leaseholder paying for the operation.

All these parties are somewhat responsible for what happened. I'm not saying we should let BP off the hook as they are the leaseholder of the rig. However I do think that Gawker's populist streak has come out with a vengeance in this whole matter, and quite frankly I find the lack of journalistic rigor with which you guys cover this matter quite tiresome. You guys are even more pathetic than the cable news channels when it comes to coverage on this.

What's sad is that maybe you guys do know better. But your audience is comprosed of clueless 15-25 year olds who are either too stupid or simply don't want to understand that most of the time life is much more complex than what their oversimplified populist view of the world can process.