Apparently, BP is a little worried about their public image and since their $50 million ad campaign—which isn’t being seen in states affected by oil spill—is a flop and the buying up of keywords in Google searches isn’t all that effective, they’re now focusing on the real heart of the matter: Twitter.
The oil company asked @BPGlobalPR, an anonymous and increasingly followed Twitter account to explain its not real. They eventually agreed and changed their profile to: “We are not associated with Beyond Petroleum, the company that has been destroying the Gulf of Mexico for 51 days.”
Sorry to repost, well not really.
I would have expected that Bucky Turco, and AnimalNewYork would have been less naive – it appears not.
Despite choosing to be media-types, in their opining they have apparently missed the point in now being the perfect timing for US politicians to capitalize on finding a common enemy for effective electioneering; after all there aren't many countries left to destroy with foreign policy (Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico & Jamaica,) nor are there many "undocumented alien" teenagers to shoot dead, without losing the US losing face.
Enter stage right – BP – the new and improved United States' common enemy. Admittedly, BP should have responded sooner, and it's CEO should have thought before speaking. But, the US leadership has all of a sudden developed amnesia, and the US is buying it quicker than you can say "Fox News Corporation," or indeed "Kari's Gorgeous Brain."
Forgetful are the politicians that 64% of BP's workforce are US citizens. Forgetful are they that BP was drilling on a contract for the US. Forgetful are they that due to the US combined bid system for foreign based corporations, they had to use Halliburton, and one of the very few licensed experts for the US, Transocean – 100% of whose workforces were American citizens, doing American business, for the American Government. Yes, dear cunts, the Devil never goes anywhere he's/she's not invited…
As to the good people of the United States, (and aside from the aforementioned points, which anyone who has the right to single out BP should already know,) they apparently haven't noticed the rhetoric (read diatribe) of their beloved President, in his being completely at odds with his actions. For two weeks after the disaster, Obama used his bully pulpit to drive home the point that BP was completely at fault and that BP was completely responsible for efforts to turn around the environmental disaster, only to turn on a sixpence suddenly ans assert that he and his team had been fully in control the entire time, only then to turn once more to assert that BP is entirely responsible, for everything, even for employees being laid off who worked for the sub-contractors who in turn also all failed in their due diligence.
What the beloved American population also haven't noticed, is that there are very separate challenges to capping the oil spillage, and clearing up the spilt oil ans restoring the beaches, marshlands and wildlife back to their former state. The capping exercise was certainly best left to the technologists who drill the oil, but the failures of the administration in not taking charge and coordinating the long term clean up and restorations are glaringly obvious to even the most plebeian foreigner. Why is it that the media (animalnewyork included) allow the administration to lie, and instead of demanding what's right, indulge in a continuous witch-hunt of the sort of absurdity not witnessed since McCarthyism prevailed here?
Come on people, don't be so naive, for once! Wake up and make the administration accountable. Make Halliburton and Transocean accountable as well. Oh, and with 36 major oil disasters globally since 1967, (increasing in frequency correlated to demand, and most of which we have never recovered from,) and if you really care, perhaps it's time stop being such bovines and walk/bike more or drive a smaller car. Demand better Urban Planning even? Ever stopped to think what pulling all of this oil out of the planet is doing to the planet, it's stability, it's ability to rotate and keep us all planted? No, probably not, methinks.
You don't need an Earth Destroyer MkIII to take the kids to school, other countries do it with cars a third of the size, if you think you do, you're just being cunts!
If you have a point, feel free to make it (in 100 words or less hopefully).
@squirrelsome: nicely said
@bucky turco: the reply is longer than 100 words but maybe squirrel thought they could help you stop repeating yourself and regurgitating the mass media hysteria. Try some facts :+)