Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps? (Context Please Department)

This, from Clive Crook, once again struck me as odd:

Britain should back down over BP: Mr Obama became pointedly less calm. He called for some “ass to kick”, a very Bushian sentiment, and dialled up the invective against BP – which he likes to call by its old name, British Petroleum, to underline the company’s alien perfidy. The US outcry against the company is still building, and the administration, intent on deflecting its critics, has put itself in the vanguard. Criminal...