Hey, 400 Temp jobs at 12 bucks an hour are better than nothing. If Yahoo News, a reliable outlet for the left isn't parroting the White House line who will?
Perhaps you saw news footage of President Obama in Grand Isle, La., on Friday and thought things didn't look all that bad. Well, there may have been a reason for that: The town was evidently swarmed by an army of temp workers to spruce it up for the president and the national news crews following him.
Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts, whose district encompasses Grand Isle, told Yahoo! News that BP bused in "hundreds" of temporary workers to clean up local beaches. And as soon as the president was en route back to Washington, the workers were clearing out of Grand Isle too, Roberts said.
"The level of cleanup and cooperation we've gotten from BP in the past is in no way consistent to the effort shown on the island today," Roberts said by telephone. "As soon as the president left, they were immediately put back on the buses and sent home."
Roberts says 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.
News of 11th-hour spruce-up brigade spread rapidly Friday afternoon and infuriated locals. One popular radio host, WWL's Spud McConnell, suggested that the Coast Guard and the White House may have been involved in setting up the "perfect photo op."
Photos of the President picking up a stray tarball or two shows that he cares. I can just imagine the White House advance people instructing the folks cleaning the beaches for the photo-op to leave a few tarballs behind. Maybe they even had someone directing him to the balls via earpiece: "Your getting warmer Mr. President", "Colder", "Red Hot". The beach was scoured to prevent the president from being anywhere close to a oil covered pelican.
The Daily Caller has the goods on President Obama's claim of the crisis geing his "highest priority" from Day 1
http://dailycaller.com/2010/05/28/what-obama-has-been-doing-while-the-gulf-coast-dies/.
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