This is an interesting development, however, to suggest that BP was "conspiring" is over the top. Certainly, Obama is (as usual) trying to cover up the administration's incompetence.
On Saturday, AP reported:
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Ted Jackson, a photographer for The Times-Picayune newspaper in New Orleans, said Saturday that access to the spill "is slowly being strangled off."...
Not coincidentally, the strangling off has occurred as the government has taken MORE control and BP has ceded control. Why am I not surprised?
On May 24, BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, was caught on tape ordering reporters off a beach that had been affected.
BP's CEO appeared to motion toward a cameraman who was standing next to a large puddle of toxic sludge. Pointing at the man, he said sternly: "Hey! Get outta there. Get outta there!"
After an inaudible exchange with nearby subordinates, the CEO then gestured toward other reporters and said softly, "Get 'em out. Get 'em out. Get 'em out." He was wearing a wireless mic.
Having given the order, Hayward began walking to the site of a planned press conference some "hundreds of yards away," according to one report, drawing the camera crews along with him.
Covering the scene live was CNN's Rick Sanchez, who appeared aghast at the comments.
"There have been some questions as to whether BP has been transparent enough and allowed media to go in and take pictures that they probably don't want you to see," the anchor said. "Um, but, you and I both heard the 'Get 'em outta there,' not on one occasion but it seemed like two occasions."
Okay, so the BP CEO tells a reporter to get away from a pool of deadly, toxic sludge, moves his press conference to a safer location, and this nitwit at CNN (understatement of the year) is castigating him for it? |
