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Images of the spim. see for yourself. on the right is a picture of bp's texas demand center and then it was enhanced on the right is how it originally appeared. it shows what cutting and pasting will do. the oil giant apologized for the deception and is placing the blame on the photographer. the calls are growing louder for president obama to rethink his moratorium on offshore drilling. protesters gathered in lafayette, louisiana, yesterday, it draw 11,000 people. all of them pleading with the administration to lift its deepwater drilling ban so that laid off rig workers can start ening payc...

Doing, you know, a logistics job for a different company. it's working in the car business so they don't see it as sufficient experience. >> you're standing there yesterday with the president and i'm sure the secretary of labor was around. did you feel there was some possibility here for you jobwise that wasn't there? >> i'm always optimistic. i have to be. i can't let my wife or my children see me, you know, fall into a negative state, where, woe is me. the world is going to come to an end. i have to stay positive and calm and upbeat as i can so it doesn't wear off on my children. >> i don't ...

>> jim, thanks for joining us tonight and good luck on that job search. if we can help you here let's see if we can. >> thank you. coming up the explosion on deepwater horizon. rig workers tell of broken safety devices that went unfixed and toxic chemicals dumped in the well because that was the easiest way to get rid of them. and later, what passes for journalism by the right wing, a hatchet job by andrew breitbart gets a woman fired for appearing to be racist. yet another case of selective, right wing video editing. julian bond of the naacp joins us. with the best coverage in america inc...

Deepwater horizon. rig workers tell of broken safety devices that went unfixed and toxic chemicals dumped in the well because that was the easiest way to get rid of them. and later, what passes for journalism by the right wing, a hatchet job by andrew breitbart gets a woman fired for appearing to be racist. yet another case of selective, right wing video editing. julian bond of the naacp joins us. when i grow up, i want to write a novel. i want to go on a road trip. when i grow up, i'm going to go there. i'm going to work with kids. i want to fix up old houses. [ female announcer ] at aarp w...

You uncovered it. you're the reason that a lot of this is being reported and actually looked into in the first place. good stuff. >> thanks. still ahead, we are talking about critics of the president's ban on deepwater drilling. they found an ally on the president's own oil spill commission. but whether or not that actually makes a difference for rig workers whose jobs are in limbo is another story. we'll talk about it with julia reed, contributor for "newsweek" and someone who's been very critical of the administration's deepwater drilling ban. we'll get her take still ahead.