“The giant oil company BP doesn’t do small-scale.

Not only is it responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill — “unprecedented” in its “volume, depth, and spatial scale,” in the words of the National Research Council — but the firm has mounted what certainly looks like an unprecedented PR campaign to minimize the damage, along with a years-long effort to dodge the financial consequences of its spill.

This week, Politico provided the company with another valuable platform for its PR — a two-page online spread titled “No, BP Didn’t Ruin the Gulf.” The piece was written by one Geoff Morrell, who turns out to be the oil company’s spokesman, as you’ll discover if you read down to the bottom of the screen.”* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Michael Hiltzik / LA Times:
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-bp-offers-a-lesson-20141022-column.html