The massive flow of bullshit continues

[albertpachino]

LONDON—As the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico entered its eighth week Wednesday, fears continued to grow that the massive flow of bullshit still gushing from the headquarters of oil giant BP could prove catastrophic if nothing is done to contain it.


The toxic bullshit, which began to spew from the mouths of BP executives shortly after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April, has completely devastated the Gulf region, delaying cleanup efforts, affecting thousands of jobs, and endangering the lives of all nearby wildlife.


"Everything we can see at the moment suggests that the overall environmental impact of this will be very, very modest," said BP CEO Tony Hayward, letting loose a colossal stream of undiluted bullshit. "The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean, and the volume of oil we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total volume of water."


Hayward's comments fueled fears that the spouting of overwhelmingly thick and slimy bullshit may never subside.


According to sources, the sheer quantity of bullshit pouring out of Hayward is unprecedented, and it has thoroughly drenched the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, with no end in sight.
Though no one knows exactly how much of the dangerous bullshit is currently gushing from BP headquarters, estimates put the number at somewhere between 25,000 and 70,000 words a day.
"We're looking at a truly staggering load of shit here," said Rebecca Palmer, an environmental scientist at the University of Georgia, who claimed that only BP has the ability to stem the flow of bullshit and plug it at its source. "And this is just the beginning—we're only seeing the surface-level bullshit. It could be years before we sift through it all and figure out just how deep this bullshit goes."


Congressional hearings aimed at stopping the bullshit have thus far failed to do so, with officials from BP and its contractors Halliburton and Transocean only adding to the powerful torrents of bullshit by blaming one another for the accident.


http://www.theonion.com/articles/mas...from-bp,17564/

[water]

We've been able to catch the 5:30 CDT national news on TV the past few days, which includes a significant amount of coverage of the oil spill here in the gulf.

At the end of the program, BP runs their PR ad. It is hard to believe that they are talking about the same oil spill that the news just covered.

They are really shooting themselves in the foot.

[Mikey]

Is this the only commercial? I haven't seen any on TV yet. I wonder, are they're only syndicating in the Gulf Coast?

http://www.youtube.com/user/BPplc?v=KKcrDaiGE2s

[Robert]

It is running up in Alaska

[water]

Mike:

I've tried the link several times , but keep getting an error message.

Also went to Youtube to search directly, but the same error message came up.

[water]

Here's what is posted on BP's site:

http://bp.concerts.com/gom/bp_response_tv_60_060310.htm

If it isn't the same, then it is similar in content and "promise to take responsibility" as the PR ad that followed the news.