How the Obama/BP $20 billion PR stunt could backfire

Published July 15, 2010 4:00am ET



President Obama scored a major PR victory by claiming (rightly or wrongly) credit for the $20 billion fund that BP has set aside to handle damage claims from the oil spill. But there is a distinct possibility that this PR stunt will backfire. Here’s how.

Yesterday on MSNBC, Ed Schultz asked Jeffrey Breit, a lawyer for 500 fisherman who are not receiving the checks that BP promised them, a question about BP’s sluggish and bureaucratic restitution process:

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