BP's vagueness on their attempts to quell the giant oil spill threatening the gulf coast is starting to look deliberate. They're keeping journalists away. They say the 'top kill' method worked. It's emerged it didn't. One congressman has had enough.

Glenn Beck has never been very tactful, but his four-minute tirade against Malia Obama this morning over her "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" question regarding BP's oil leak represented a reprehensible new low. Audio inside. Update: Beck responds.

A BP official told NBC's Today show that the top kill method is "proceeding pretty well," but that it could be two days before we know if it worked. But rest easy, America, because Pat Campbell always wins. [MSNBC, Getty]

[Feeling outraged by the BP's unbelievable shamelessness? How about some wryly humorous graphic design? This is one of the best new BP logos from Greenpeace's "Rebrand BP" competition. Flickr via Reddit]

Finally, a scientist in the news media that we can trust! Bill Nye (the Science Guy, for us 90s kids) stopped by CNN's John King, USA to demonstrate the "top kill" strategy that's supposed to save us all.

President Obama gave a press conference, just to make sure everyone knows that he's really mad at BP for spilling all that oil and saying, "it is my job to make sure that everything is done to shut this down."

While the world is glued to the live cam, BP COO Doug Suttles said half an hour ago that only drilling mud—not oil—is flowing from the well. But that's BP's estimate, so... let's say 10,000 barrels/day? [Reuters]

Today BP is trying a "top kill" to stop the oil leaking into the Gulf. The man tasked with doing it, Pat Campbell, has some words for the well: "I'm here, I'm touching you, I'm telling you you're dead."

Coming soon to the Gulf of Mexico: "Top Kill," BP's newest method of "plug[ging] the damn hole."

It's been one month since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up, and oil is still leaking at an astonishing rate. Entire state economies might be crushed, and whole ecosystems wiped out. So whose fault is it?

The Environmental Protection Agency ordered BP to stop using the toxic dispersant Corexit to break up their oil mess in the Gulf of Mexico. BP decided to keep on using it. And why not? They're basically in charge down there.

First the company lied was wrong about how much oil was leaking into the Gulf. Now it is saying that the siphoning tube being used is recovering over 30% less oil than was previously claimed. Surprised? [Guardian, Getty]

The owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, Transocean, held survivors for nearly two days after the explosion with no outside contact at all. Was it an attempt to exhaust workers so they would sign away the company's liability?

BP's oil isn't leaking "four or fives times" faster than everyone thought—at a rate of 4 million gallons per day, it's twenty times worse than BP thought. And the chemical they're using to "disperse" it is toxic, too.

When a crew from CBS News tried to film an oil-covered beach in Louisiana, they were stopped and threatened with arrest by a group of BP contractors and members of the Coast Guard. "This is BP's rules, it's not ours."

A lot weird things are supposed to fix the oil spill. This guy is complaining that BP won't consider is idea: "a giant shower curtain at 5,000 feet that goes to the bottom of the ocean." We're doomed. [AP]

We've all seen pictures of the damage caused by BP's oil leak, but here's the first video. Released by BP, it shows just how much oil is being spewed into the water and the failure of their containment dome attempt.

Remember the "loop current" that threatened to pull the oil spill over to Florida and up the East Coast? It might be working. Park Rangers at Fort Zachary Taylor State Park found 20 tarballs on the beach yesterday. [PBP, Getty]

Oil has been pouring into the Gulf of Mexico for weeks, and nobody seems to know how to stop it. Here is a long list of methods that have been floated for how to stop the plague of oil.

Good news: BP says that the siphoning tube is starting to work. Bad news: The spill is heading closer to a "loop current" that would pull it into the Atlantic Ocean and up the East Coast. [WSJ, AP, Getty]