Is Obama and MSM telling all about BP efforts?

If you have been following news about the oil leak in the Gulf, do you think you have been getting the real information of what occurs? I think if you want to know about a neighborhood; you ask the people who live there. So, I read the news sites from the states surrounding the Gulf.
Press-Register Mobile Real-time News http://www.al.com/news/mobile/
Baton Rouge Business Report http://www.businessreport.com/
Gambit Weekly http://bestofneworleans.com/gyrobase/
Times-Picayune http://www.nola.com/
Sun-Herald http://www.sunherald.com/
The Mississippi Press http://www.gulflive.com/mississippipress/
I've added a few other reports I have read below.


I am not being an apologist for BP when I say it doesn't seem as if the main stream media is giving out the full reports of what is happening. And Obama now wants to know who ass he is going to kick.

While we are all outraged and frustrated at BP's failed attempts to cap the well, or at least significantly slow the flow; the reality of it is BP's executives didn't cut and run. BP has been quick to admit its responsibility and has been writing checks to business owners affected by the spill and hiring out of work fishermen for cleaning up and other related oil spill work. They are paying 'Loss of Income' claims to the fishermen. They are paying for the cleanup. It estimates its costs for the cleanup at almost $1 billion so far.

They also have been open to and trying different methods to cleanup the oil. An unidentified BP worker said that a number of new and unconventional methods have been looked at but that they have to receive the go-ahead from federal officials in charge. The BP worker said they were trying to get the federal officials to look at the methods, and then get approval to at least do a testing area.

If they determined the method was successful in the test area, then they would implement it on a larger scale. Since some of the methods would require immediate stepup in production to aquire enough material or product for a large area, it was necessary for the federal officials to quickly review the methods and approve them. However, the worker said just getting the federal officials to look at the methods was proving to be a task in itself. It seems the federal officials are stuck on the 'experimental' aspects of the methods.

Go ahead - say it, because I did.
Duh!
We have never had a leak at the depth of a mile down, it's never happened before. Of course everything that is being done is experimental.

BP has an ugly track record, a history of worker deaths, previous fines and other safety violations. Plus, it's spokespeople have terminal foot in mouth disease. And after all is said and done; they will probably be the most government monitored oil company in the World. But why is the MSM not reporting the truth of what is happening? And why is Obama trying to come off like Jesse Ventura?
He keeps repeating that BP will be held responsible for the spill and its aftermath. It looks as if BP is taking, and has taken, responsibility to get the job done. I keep hearing Emanuel's adage, 'You never want a serious crisis to go to waste'. It would be an extremely sad human being who would use this oil spill to put a feather in their cap.

Well near Deepwater Horizon has leaked since at least April 30
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/06/another_gulf_oil_spill_well_ne.html
A nearby drilling rig, the Ocean Saratoga, has been leaking since at least April 30, according to a federal document

Calm no more, Obama lashes out at BP on Gulf visit
Dogged for being too calm in crisis, President Barack Obama unleashed frustration for all to see Friday, warning BP it had better do right by the people whose lives it has wrecked.
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=12594279

BP to pay a second month of 'Loss of Income' claims
Updated: Jun 04, 2010 4:01 PM CDT Businesses and individuals who have lost income due to the Gulf oil leak will soon receive a second advance payment from BP. The company said in Mississippi about 1900 individuals and businesses will have received about $10 million once these latest checks are sent.
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=12597464

BP gave Florida $50 million
BP last month gave Florida $25 million for advertising to get that message out to the rest of the country, as well as another $25 million for spill preparedness..
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1994640,00.html#ixzz0qEY4c71V

Ocean Springs prepping new product to fight oil
Updated: Jun 03, 2010 8:47 AM CDT Instead of boom, Ocean Springs is relying on a new line of defense to keep the oil out. Krystal Allan reports on how it works and how it will be used along Ocean Springs' shoreline.
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=12586178

BP Announces First Payment on Barrier Islands Project for State of Louisiana
BP: $60 Million Payment To Louisiana Is First Installment Of Six
HOUSTON -- As part of the previously announced commitment to fund the entire $360 million cost of six berms in the Louisiana barrier islands project, BP today announced that it will make an immediate payment of $60 million to the State of Louisiana. In a letter to Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and as previously announced, BP detailed its plans to make payments in stages based on the project’s completion milestones
http://www.tradesignalonline.com/Markets/Story.aspx?id=637063&cat=18

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/category.asp?C=186625

Deepwater Horizon Response
http://www.deepwaterhorizonresponse.com/go/site/2931/