Obama Administration Puppet for BP (NYSE:BP) Says Spike Lee

In an effective strategy for getting attention, filmmaker Spike Lee said in an interview last night that the Obama Administration is a puppet of BP (NYSE:BP).

Lee is marketing a documentary he put together called, "If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise," which debuts on HBO on August 23.

Here's what Lee said in the interview about the Obama administration:

"... I feel — and a lot of those people feel down here — that BP was dictating [to] the United States government what to do. BP dictated [to] the FAA who could fly over the site. BP dictated to the Coast Guard and Thad Allen which boats can come and go. And BP dictated [to] the EPA — the EPA sent a letter to BP saying we have serious concerns about your dispersant, Corexit. They sent back [one] saying, we're going to use it anyway. So BP's been running things."

Lee asserts it's greed which caused the incident: "We have people in office appointed and voted in and people in big business positions who only care about the dollar bill, and there are people [who] get harmed, people [who] die. They say that's the cost of doing business."

Obviously this will be another anti-business rant by Lee, but he does know how to garner attention.