Lookout, France! Google hires neo-con headbanger

[LiviaOlivia]

Lookout, France! Google hires neo-con headbanger
By Andrew Orlowski
Published Tuesday 24th May 2005


The company that prides itself on "Doing No Evil" isn't taking any chances with its latest executive appointment. Dan Senor, the company's new Global Communications and Strategy VP, has a CV guaranteed to have Register columnist Otto Z Stern firing a celebratory fusillade skywards from his compound in New Mexico.

A former Senior Associate at the Carlyle Group, Senor was briefly Scott McLellan's deputy as White House spokesman before becoming head of the the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq's information department. The White House web site bills him as Senior Advisor to Presidential Envoy L. Paul Bremer III. Fox News hired Senor as a panelist in February. While in Iraq Senor showed his loyalty by going jogging in a Bush-Cheney '04 tracksuit.

Not everyone is impressed. "I have come to associate his triangular, brush-cut head with an unceasing stream of bullshit. He's Ari Fleischer without the charm," writes one grump. "Hiring this guy is a repulsive move."

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An impressive resume, for sure, but one perhaps more useful to a company building a military task force than a search engine. And it'll be fascinating to see the reaction of the French, with whom Google is locked into some extremely sensitive negotiations, to Senor's brand of special diplomacy.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/24/google_neocon/

[DireStrike]

1. Everybody google "Fire Dan Senor"

Maybe they'll get the message.

[lapfog_1]

3. done... hope they track this...

[paineinthearse]

5. Done

Your search - "Fire Dan Senor" - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:
- Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
- Try different keywords.
- Try more general keywords.

How many tries before it makes an input?

[Stephanie]

6. It will probably start pulling up this thread before long

Ever Google your screenname?

[JDPriestly]

2. Look out America!

Horrors. And just when Google was beginning to loosen up a bit and refer readers of its news page to a few blogs that aren't entirely conventional in their news reports.

[JDPriestly]

4. By the way,

does anyone have a favorite search engine other than Google? Especiallly for news and historical information?

[Stephanie]

7. I always forget about altavista

But it has a cool video search.

[JDPriestly]

8. Thanks. I'll try to remember it.

[Swamp Rat]

9. "They" are seizing control over all forms of communication...

Soon "They" will begin the...

[Frederik]

10. From now on

I'm deleting my cookies regularly.