Behold the Seeds of the Coming British-American War

I do say, old chap! It's getting rough out there between the United States and the United Kingdom. We had Paul McCartney stirring up shit by insulting our incredibly well-respected former President George W. Bush. The notoriously even-keeled British press is accusing President Obama of "stoking an anti-British backlash" at BP for spilling massive amounts of poison all along our coastlines. Lewis Black is advocating the U.S. declare war on BP, invade their offices and seize their money.

And here's Stephen Colbert responding to British parliamentarian Lord Norman Tebbit's alliterative attacks against the American a-number-one authoritian….

It's coming people! War is right around the corner! Can it be stopped? I don't know. I don't know.

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Tags: Barack Obama, BP, Energy & Oil, Keith Olbermann, Lewis Black, MSNBC, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, United Kingdom