Did you just see the total bullshit BP apology commercial on MSNBC?

[PuraVidaDreamin]

All beaches white and pretty- all birds clean, all volunteer with clean gloves

BULLSHIT

Complete and total BULLSHIT

[Robbien]

1. They spent $50 million on that ad campaign

Just another stupid decision from the master of stupid decisions.

[MadMaddie]

3. 50 million that could have gone to the residents of the impacted

areas.

[MadMaddie]

2. They haven't stopped it so why the hell would they ut out an ad

Let's give em some shovels they are digging a nice oily grave for themselves.

[RKP5637]

4. I caught part of it... absolute corp. white wash BS. Absolute unmitigated BS. How

F'en dumb do they think everyone is...

[roguevalley]

21. that's how dumb they think we are. this will only harden feeling against them.

[TK421]

5. All this time, they could be serving time n/t

[dipsydoodle]

9. Perhaps you'd give us all a brief reminder

of when the court case was.

[TK421]

15. court case? what are you saying? BP is not responsible for the disaster in the Gulf?

why don't you elaborate on your post? PRETTY PLEASE

edited to add: perhaps you responded to the wrong post?

[TK421]

16. No reply? what...could it be you or one of your relatives are personally vested in BP?

why don't you just explain your post, then....go on

[dipsydoodle]

23. No reply ?

In case you hadn't noticed I'm 5 hours ahead of you, just outside London, and I went out dancing. I have no vested interest whatsoever in BP which despite its name is not "British" - just another PLC having been privatized years ago in such a way as to prevent Kuwait from owning it. It is infact currently 39% US owned and I'd say that the great majority of those shares are help by your financial institutions. I actually regard all oil companies and most multinationals, especially your ones, as being complete fucking nuicances.

You had said "All this time, they could be serving time". Who's they out of BP, Transocean and Halliburton ? Hence my question as to which court case you referred.

[eShirl]

6. They aired it at the end of CBS Evening News, too.

We were like, "BULLSHIT!"
People sunning themselves on a white beach with clear blue ocean, SHYAH RIGHT!

[PuraVidaDreamin]

7. CEO Tony Hayward doing his best Frodo impersonation

We are sooooo sorry. We are doing everything we can.
We want our lives back.

[TK421]

18. "Do you remember the Shire, Sam"?

[PuraVidaDreamin]

24. Ha ha

Needed that! Good Stuff and thanks

:hi:

[Skidmore]

8. The media who sold the time to them deserve sound feedback for profitting

from an ongoing disaster.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. disgusting basatrds

[City Lights]

11. Too bad msnbc aired it.

Would have been nice if they told BP, "theenks, but no theenks."

[BeFree]

14. Seems to me..

...that BP might just be trying to influence what the news airs.

The coming pictures and stories, like the just aired oiled birds, are going to fill the news unless the news people decide not to show the truth.

BP is trying to cap not only the well, but cap the news as well.

[Big Blue Marble]

12. Maybe it is a marketing test to see how really dumb

some people are. I am sure it has been focused grouped before release to maximize the soothing effect
and plant subliminal messages to that purpose. Restoring their brand and market cap are far more important
than protecting our once beautiful gulf and marshlands after all.

[RKP5637]

22. Excellent point!!! n/t

[breadandwine]

13. It was passionless. But then, so is Obama on the oil leak himself.

The NY Times says Obama is coming under fire for his passionless I'm-the-bean-counter-in-chief response to the leak. No one on our side is emotionally worked up to go vote the way the Republicans are and this spells disaster for Democrats in the Fall.




It's the motivated who vote in Midterm elections, not the DLC me-too-ers.



In the words of Harry Truman,

"If you run a Republican against a Republican, the Republican will win every time." The people in the White House are weak, out to lunch and insane to be so middle of the road in a midterm election. It doesn't work. It doesn't motivate anyone on our side.

[Sebastian Doyle]

17. For once, I'm actually happy that the MSNBC stream

cuts the commercials out and instead plays an endless stream of repeating MSNBC promos during the commercial breaks at 10 times the volume of the program itself. It's annoying as fuck, but at least it's not BP ads.

[Raine]

19. I saw it

total BULLSHIT!!!!!! :argh: :mad: :nuke:

[subsuelo]

20. sorry but why are you watching any station that would carry the ad?