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Letterman: Top ten ways BP can help its image

More oily humor from Dave:

10. Change "BP" from "British Petroleum" to "Bunnies and Puppies."
9. Scrap the snotty British accents.
8. Cry on "Oprah."
7. Take a page from AFLAC. New mascot: wise-cranking oil-soaked duck.
6. Find Bin Laden.
5. Start making cookies. Who doesn't love cookies?
4. What's wrong with our image?
3. Switch from "Drill Baby Drill" to "Help Daddy Help."
2. Instead of their image, maybe they can focus on fixing the damn leak!
1. For goodness sakes, get Iron Man to do something...

Should you believe anything BP says? - As gigantic oil plumes form under Gulf, BP recklessly ignores scientists' pleas: "We're not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It's not relevant to the response effort, and it m

If you had any lingering doubts about who was to blame for the disastrous undersea volcano of oil in the Gulf, last night's 60 Minutes utterly dispels them:

This makes clear that BP's cost- and corner-cutting caused this disaster.  Equally shocking is the story of BP's willful  and "fundamentally wrong" approach to safety on another well, the Atlantis.  Part 1 is well worth watching too.  A full transcript is here.

The 60 Minutes story is consistent with other reporting (see The three causes...

Should you believe anything BP says? - As gigantic oil plumes form under Gulf, BP recklessly ignores scientists' pleas: "We're not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It's not relevant to the response effort, and it m

If you had any lingering doubts about who was to blame for the disastrous undersea volcano of oil in the Gulf, last night's 60 Minutes utterly dispels them:

This makes clear that BP's cost- and corner-cutting caused this disaster.  Equally shocking is the story of BP's willful  and "fundamentally wrong" approach to safety on another well, the Atlantis.  Part 1 is well worth watching too.  A full transcript is here.

The 60 Minutes story is consistent with other reporting (see The three causes...

Should you believe anything BP says? - As gigantic oil plumes form under Gulf, BP recklessly ignores scientists' pleas: "We're not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It's not relevant to the response effort, and it m

If you had any lingering doubts about who was to blame for the disastrous undersea volcano of oil in the Gulf, last night's 60 Minutes utterly dispels them:

This makes clear that BP's cost- and corner-cutting caused this disaster.  Equally shocking is the story of BP's willful  and "fundamentally wrong" approach to safety on another well, the Atlantis.  Part 1 is well worth watching too.  A full transcript is here.

The 60 Minutes story is consistent with other reporting (see The three causes...

Should you believe anything BP says? - As gigantic oil plumes form under Gulf, BP recklessly ignores scientists' pleas: "We're not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It's not relevant to the response effort, and it m

If you had any lingering doubts about who was to blame for the disastrous undersea volcano of oil in the Gulf, last night's 60 Minutes utterly dispels them:

This makes clear that BP's cost- and corner-cutting caused this disaster.  Equally shocking is the story of BP's willful  and "fundamentally wrong" approach to safety on another well, the Atlantis.  Part 1 is well worth watching too.  A full transcript is here.

The 60 Minutes story is consistent with other reporting (see The three causes...

Should you believe anything BP says? - As gigantic oil plumes form under Gulf, BP recklessly ignores scientists' pleas: "We're not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It's not relevant to the response effort, and it m

If you had any lingering doubts about who was to blame for the disastrous undersea volcano of oil in the Gulf, last night's 60 Minutes utterly dispels them:

This makes clear that BP's cost- and corner-cutting caused this disaster.  Equally shocking is the story of BP's willful  and "fundamentally wrong" approach to safety on another well, the Atlantis.  Part 1 is well worth watching too.  A full transcript is here.

The 60 Minutes story is consistent with other reporting (see The three causes...

Should you believe anything BP says? - As gigantic oil plumes form under Gulf, BP recklessly ignores scientists' pleas: "We're not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It's not relevant to the response effort, and it m

If you had any lingering doubts about who was to blame for the disastrous undersea volcano of oil in the Gulf, last night's 60 Minutes utterly dispels them:

This makes clear that BP's cost- and corner-cutting caused this disaster.  Equally shocking is the story of BP's willful  and "fundamentally wrong" approach to safety on another well, the Atlantis.  Part 1 is well worth watching too.  A full transcript is here.

The 60 Minutes story is consistent with other reporting (see The three causes...

Should you believe anything BP says? - As gigantic oil plumes form under Gulf, BP recklessly ignores scientists' pleas: "We're not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It's not relevant to the response effort, and it m

If you had any lingering doubts about who was to blame for the disastrous undersea volcano of oil in the Gulf, last night's 60 Minutes utterly dispels them:

This makes clear that BP's cost- and corner-cutting caused this disaster.  Equally shocking is the story of BP's willful  and "fundamentally wrong" approach to safety on another well, the Atlantis.  Part 1 is well worth watching too.  A full transcript is here.

The 60 Minutes story is consistent with other reporting (see The three causes...

Should you believe anything BP says? - As gigantic oil plumes form under Gulf, BP recklessly ignores scientists' pleas: "We're not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It's not relevant to the response effort, and it m

If you had any lingering doubts about who was to blame for the disastrous undersea volcano of oil in the Gulf, last night's 60 Minutes utterly dispels them:

This makes clear that BP's cost- and corner-cutting caused this disaster.  Equally shocking is the story of BP's willful  and "fundamentally wrong" approach to safety on another well, the Atlantis.  Part 1 is well worth watching too.  A full transcript is here.

The 60 Minutes story is consistent with other reporting (see The three causes...

Should you believe anything BP says? - As gigantic oil plumes form under Gulf, BP recklessly ignores scientists' pleas: "We're not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It's not relevant to the response effort, and it m

If you had any lingering doubts about who was to blame for the disastrous undersea volcano of oil in the Gulf, last night's 60 Minutes utterly dispels them:

This makes clear that BP's cost- and corner-cutting caused this disaster.  Equally shocking is the story of BP's willful  and "fundamentally wrong" approach to safety on another well, the Atlantis.  Part 1 is well worth watching too.  A full transcript is here.

The 60 Minutes story is consistent with other reporting (see The three causes...