BP Paid Workers $12 per hour to Show Up for Obama Visit, Be Props for the Photo Op

[Geee]

Washington Examiner:


BP paid workers $12-per-hour to show up for Obama visit, be props for the photo ops
By: MARK TAPSCOTT
Editorial Page Editor
05/29/10 7:05 AM EDT

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal looks on at right as President Barack Obama gestures during a statement on the Gulf Coast oil spill, Friday, May 28, 2010, in Grand Isle, La. U.S. Coast Guard Adm. James Watson is at center.
Has it really come to this? Yahoo News' Brett Michael Dykes reports that BP paid busloads of temporary cleanup workers to show up as stage props for President Obama's visit to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup operations on Grand Isle.

Dykes quoted Jefferson Parish councilman Chris Roberts who said "the overnight contingent of workers was there mainly to furnish a Potemkin-style backdrop for the event — while also making it appear that BP was firmly in command of spill cleanup efforts. New Orleans NBC affiliate WDSU reports that the workers were paid $12 an hour and came mostly from neighboring Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes."

For more, go here.

Obama was enjoying a bit of a recovery in the presidential approval numbers earlier in the week, after hitting the lowest point of his presidency. You think BP also paid those four percentage points to show up for the president in the latest Rasmussen polling?

HT: Examiner contributor Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit.com.

[Guest AnneV]

(OK, by a show of hands...put your hand up if you're surprised to hear this!!!!)^sarcasm

 

He did the same thing with the doctors...even gave them white coats to wear!

[SrWoodchuck]

He'll claim he saved or created those jobs; plus, he won't pay for them & he will denigrate the employer [bP] for his own political advantage. Kool-aid up!

 

If I had more camera presence I'd audition to be a "Photo-Op" specialist.