John Lapoint, the president of a Maine company called Packgen, has been making the rounds in the media this week, complaining that BP and the federal government haven't purchased thousands of feet of oil boom that his company began manufacturing in the wake of the Gulf disaster.
Tonight, Lapoint appeared on Sean Hannity's Fox News show. Hannity -- who declared the situation “frustrating” and said that “the blame goes to BP, and the blame goes to our government” -- demanded to know “why” BP and the Obama administration hadn't bought the boom.
And tonight -- about an hour before Lapoint appeared on Hannity's infomercial -- ABC's Jake Tapper reported that the Coast Guard told him: “The boom manufactured by Packgen did not pass an initial quality control test.”