Some pointed responses to Tony Hayward’s infamous quote

THE INFAMOUS, INFURIATING QUOTE: “There’s no one who wants this thing over more than I do. I’d like my life back.”        BP CEO Tony Hayward         Tone deaf comment to a reporter on May 30, 2010 about British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster and the resulting massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

CARTOONIST’S COUNTERPOINT:     Political cartoon by Jack Ohman      Published in The Oregonian, June 2010

11 LOST LIVES COUNTERQUOTE: “Americans watched as BP’s Tony Hayward looking pitifully into television cameras exclaiming to the world that he ‘wants his life back’, totally forgetting about the 11 lives that were lost on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20, 2010…To the rest of us who heard him speak, it’s crystal clear that money does not bring back life and neither does a millionaire’s self-pity.”        Journalist Gregory Boyce         Post on the Examiner.com site, June 21, 2010

LENO’S COUNTERQUOTE: “BP CEO Tony Hayward said he would just like to get his life back. He wants to get his life back! You know, I say give him life plus 20.”        Jay Leno        On The Tonight Show, June 8, 2010

BP SONG VARIATION: “BP wants their life back. BP wants a little break. BP’s had their fill of this nasty spill  And it’s slimed their precious corp’rate name... ‘Can’t we get back to just making money? Can’t we get back to a simpler time  When we weren't held accountable     for the nature of our crimes?”        Songwriter Mick Terry        In his sardonic song “BP Wants Their Life Back”

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