Monday, May 31, 2010

BP Buses in People For Obama's Gulf Oil Spill Photo op

Hard to argue that it was not a great photo op. The effort would have been better spent actually trying to solve the problem though.

Video embedded below.



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts2320 (via)

"Perhaps you saw news footage of President Obama in Grand Isle, La., on Friday and thought things didn't look all that bad. Well, there may have been a reason for that: The town was evidently swarmed by an army of temp workers to spruce it up for the president and the national news crews following him.

Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts, whose district encompasses Grand Isle, told Yahoo! News that BP bused in "hundreds" of temporary workers to clean up local beaches. And as soon as the president was en route back to Washington, the workers were clearing out of Grand Isle too, Roberts said.

"The level of cleanup and cooperation we've gotten from BP in the past is in no way consistent to the effort shown on the island today," Roberts said by telephone. "As soon as the president left, they were immediately put back on the buses and sent home."

Roberts says the overnight contingent of workers was there mainly to furnish a Potemkin-style backdrop for the event — while also making it appear that BP was firmly in command of spill cleanup efforts.
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1 comment:

  1. I didn’t find it that interesting. Anyways you can try something better

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