Okay so it's old news.

And she's been criticized for her lack of journalistic integrity and for being a corporate shill.

But hold on, it gets worse.

Amanda Congdon's Dupont "Infotainmercials" are also a video response. A sly, corporate video response to the Sierra Club's online video, Dupont, Dioxin and Duplicity. Of course, nobody from Dupont would ever admit this but humor me for a moment.

Some commenters have assumed that because Dupont hired Congdon, they were trying to reach the web-savvy-hipster demographic. But take a closer look at the content of the videos. Two of them are entitled "Protecting the Protectors." Congdon tells us about the police officers and the firemen whose "sense of duty and heroism" make it impossible for them to run away. "Car Artists" is about the paint used on custom cars. In "Glass Houses" Amanda talks about Dupont's amazing architectural miracles, such as "the most exciting seat in sports, the Nascar Monster Bridge over the Dover International Raceway." She ends the video with the tagline, "nothing is impossible so long as you keep the faith, aka Science." So science is just another one of the world's religions?

Dupont isn't targeting web savvy hipsters. They're targeting "dumb southerners". Watch the Sierra Club video and it all starts to make sense. One of those "dumb southerners" just won a $14 million dollar lawsuit, claiming his rare form of cancer was caused by eating dioxin laced oysters. And he's only the first. There are thousands of other people in Mississippi suffering from bizarre ailments and rare cancers.

The Sierra Club video ends with subtitles: "Hurricane Katrina flooded and damaged the Delisle Dupont plant. Dupont denies the release of any toxins." Of course, DuPont denies turning the Gulf Coast into a toxic waste dump. In the video "Shelter from the Storm", Congdon tells us about Dupont's SentryGlas and how it keeps houses from falling apart in hurricanes. So from now on, every time I hear the words "hurricane" and "DuPont", I'm going to think of the friendly corporation that saves lives with their "miracles of science".

Congdon reports that "Dupont is VERY happy". Why wouldn't they be happy? They've got a young woman who claims to "care deeply about the environment". Someone who was sponsored by an environmental organization to vlog her cross country trip in a hydroelectric car. Someone who interviewed Darryl Hannah (the host of the Sierra Club videos!) and was treated with huge respect. Someone who continues to deny that there's anything wrong with doing commercials for DuPont and says "I think what they do for the world . . . outweighs their big mistakes".

I'm sure Dupont can't believe it's extreme good luck and your credulousness, Amanda. Next time you cry crocodile tears for New Orleans, wipe your eyes on dollar bills.