Everything must be SOMEONE's fault; who it is doesn't seem to matter.

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Boston hack almost takes blame for forgotten child AP A Boston taxi driver takes a family from Logan Airport to their home and THEY leave a sleeping infant in the back seat! HE almost gets his license suspended.
1)The attitude of American lawyers has permeated society: everything bad that happens must be the fault of someone. Someone hurt in a traffic accident? It must be the fault of ONE of the drivers.(Otherwise, whom would the aggrieved sue?)Birth defect? It must be the fault of the obstetrician.Medical malpractice isn't dependent on process ( actual malpractice ) but on results: a bad result means some doctor is to blame.
2) It seems not to matter who is held to be at fault: the guilty, the innocent, the not-responsible but nearby. Since it doesn't matter, one might as well put the blame on an enemy ( certainly not on a friend!) or someone whom a jury won't like.
3) In the Gates affair in Cambridge, surely someone must be at fault and the President wouldn't blame his friend, "Skip" Gates, and so blames the officer involved.
The President couldn't even leave the matter alone. Press Secretary Gibbs admits Obama was prepared for the question and it was the last question, from Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times and almost certainly "planted." Obama wanted Sweet to ask the "last" question and was momentarily disconcerted by having called on the reporter planned to be the penultimate one only to have someone else stand up instead and have to extend the press conference by one to get Sweet's "question" in.
The only one in that affair absolutely blameless was, in fact, Sgt Crowley. When the President (under public pressure ) backed off, he still doesn't acknowledge the truth, apologize to Crowley (perhaps even blame Gates, who exhibited the only "racist" behavior in this incident ) but is trying to be even-handed ( as one might be between the fireman and the fire.)
4) In the war between Muslim terrorist and Israel, Israel is either accused of provocation ( of terrorism!!) OR, if the initiative is unquestionable, accused of DISPROPORTIONATE response.
(The movie, Ship of Fools, resurrects an old joke. The Nazi asserts "It's all the fault of the Jews." The Jew agrees, "YES, THE JEWS AND THE BICYCLISTS." "Why the bicyclists?" "WHY THE JEWS?" )