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BP CEO Tony Hayward Apologizes for 'Wanting His Life Back' from Gulf Oil Spill (On Facebook)
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyOver the weekend, in the midst of making an apology to Gulf Coast residents live from the Louisiana shore, BP CEO Tony Hayward complained to Fox News about the effect the oil spill was having on him as an individual. "There's no one who wants this thing over more than I do, you know, I'd like my life back," Hayward said. The sound bite proved to be utterly damning for the embattled executive, with pundits of all stripes leaping on what they perceived as Hayward's insensitivity and callous disregard for all the countless people whose livelihoods have been utterly ruined by BP's Gulf coast ...
Is BP Oil Spill in the Gulf Our Environmental 9/11?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyFor five weeks now -- although it sure feels longer -- we've been arguing over whether this BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is or is not Obama's Katrina. But in South Louisiana, that comparison lost its juice a while ago. "This is worse than Katrina,'' shrimper Floyd Robin told Politics Daily's Ben Sandmel. Now a worst-case corporate cockup -- potentially compounded by whatever loyal American forgot to change the batteries on the blowout preventer -- is looking more by the hour like our environmental 9/11. I know that's a risky comparison, because of all we lost that day, both in terms of ...
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