This week in crazy: Tony Hayward

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This week in crazy: Tony Hayward
BP may not know how to clean up the devastating oil spill, but its CEO sure knows how to whine about it
By Mike Madden


When you're the guy at the top of the corporate ladder that's ultimately responsible for spewing millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico (and, soon, probably fouling the East Coast as well), it's not easy to make your reputation even worse than it already is. But Tony Hayward didn't get to become CEO of BP by doing what was easy.

And so this week, more than a month into the horrific Gulf oil spill, Hayward managed to sink to a new low.

"There's no one who wants this over more than I do," the beleaguered oilman told the "Today Show" on Sunday. "You know, I'd like my life back."

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Just like that, anyone who — after weeks of watching BP dissemble, block photographers from the spill and launch an endless succession of failed remedies with dopey names — didn't already want to aim a junk shot at Hayward must have lost whatever sympathy they had for him. Eleven oil workers were killed in the explosion that sank BP's rig; the Gulf of Mexico may be permanently ruined; thousands of fishers and shrimpers have lost their livelihood; birds, fish and turtles are dying by the score; some people are starting to wonder if nuking the Deepwater Horizon might be the best way to stop it. And poor Hayward wants his life back.

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http://www.salon.com/life/this_week_in_crazy/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/06/05/this_week_in_crazy_bp_tony_hayward

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1. In the movie,

I hope they cast Tilda Swinton as Tony.

She excels at expressing pinch-faced clueless inadequacy while burbling forth nonsense.