Friday, June 18, 2010

Tony Hayward Tells All!!!!!

The saga of the Gulf Oil Spill continues on, day by painful day, as it will for probably many months or years to comes. We'll get bored as time goes by, and the struggles of the people and the animals will be overtaken by some other tradgedy sure to come. The anger will ebb...the intensity of emotion wane, the focus blurr into obscurity...like Haiti! How is Haiti now? Do we know?...Has the damage from Katrina ever been resolved yet? I don't think so! But that is the reality of our human condition. The tradgedy with the best photojournalist wins! That's a huge responsibility for a camera! Yesterday the camera was on the CEO of BP Mr. Tony Hayward, and the result really was no surprise. If Congress was looking for a "Tell All" they should've called on Kathy Giffin, since they got nothing out of Mr. Hayward.
Are We Done Yet?
As the CEO of BP, you would imagine that he would be a man of wisdom...but it seemed obvious yesterday that knowledge of his company's activity is not required!
Mr. Hayward was shameless in his repetative acknowledgements that...He knows nothing; He heard nothing; He saw nothing; He said nothing!
His affect was clear in conveying his absolute arrogance and distaste at being called to answer questions that he had no intention of answering.
He has a gift of being able to remain absolutely still, with facial features frozen in a sneer, and blinking only occaisionally while staring at his interrogators. I would liken him to an oversized Iguana, but even they stick their tongues out occasionally...something I'm certain was in Hayward's mind to do...but resisted on the basis of expended energy rather than good breeding!It was a farce of the grandest proportion...but in his defense (not that there is one) it occurred to me when the senators stated that BP had the highest record of safety violations...upwards of 700 as compared to BP's competitors who had 1 or 2 in the same time frame...why did the US Government give BP permission to drill a worm hole let alone a deepest of deep oil well?...Hmmmmmm

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