BP’s name being dragged ‘literally through the muck.’

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http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/22/bp-muck/

Yesterday, BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles expressed his optimism that both his company and the Gulf will “will fully recover.” While BP’s handsome profits will almost assuredly allow the company to survive the disaster, the impact on the Gulf caused by the release of 60 million gallons of oil is another matter. The ecological catastrophe will drag “BP’s reputation literally through the muck,” observes The Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson. Some images from the Gulf region:




A sign south of Belle Chasse, LA, on Thursday (AP)


A pool of oil on a beach at the mouth of the Mississippi River on Monday (Getty)


Greenpeace protesters take over BP headquarters in London on Thursday (AP)



Marine scientist Paul Horsman at the mouth of the Mississippi River on Monday (Greenpeace)

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1. Poor, poor BP.

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2. Murdering terrorists.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. Yes, they are.

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3. Poster children for the corporate death penalty

12 dead, a delicate ecosystem destroyed.

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5. BP & The Vatican: Savagely accused, by their overreacting victims

How horrible the way we treat the mega-powerful.