No wonder payout czar Feinberg’s a succeessful well-connected insider DC attorney. He’s so slick he’s decreed the fisherman who contracted to work cleaning up the poisons BP spews will have their income from that work deducted. From what? From what ever settlement he may award them for damages…damages from BP’s oil apocalypse.

Yep, Czar Feinberg, in his generosity, demands the fisherman cleaning up BP’s posions from our public waters do their work for free. Such an opportunity! Shock Doctrine, meet Czar Doctrine: Feinberg’s gone neo-feudal on the Gulf. This Czar’s using the job Obama and BP’s top man picked him for to get back to his roots….in 16th centruy Russia. Is that where the President hopes to bring the wounded Gulf?

Adm. Thad Allen has issued a directive further restricting media access. This comes days after the ACLU of Louisiana wrote a letter urging an end to blocking of the press and censorship of information.

The positive, calm, and collected nature of the address was not necessarily what Americans wanted to hear. Given the increasing scope of the disaster and the reality that there is no end in sight, many wanted specifics, wanted to know how the administration plans to really gain control of a situation that BP is manipulating and covering up. But, they did not get the healthy skepticism that could have been a part of the address.

Ken Ringle pens an interesting article over at Nieman Watchdog attacking the “drama” around the oil spill that has attracted so much attention– which he feels to be a bit over the top.