“Tony Hayward” on The Daily Caller

Former BP CEO Tony Hayward is back in the news again and is being accused of even more insensitivity toward the victims of the 2010 BP oil spill. (more)

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — Christine O’Donnell’s TV ad declaration “I’m not a witch” during her U.S. Senate campaign topped this year’s best quotes, according to a Yale University librarian. (more)

I was looking for a safe real estate investment; instead I got a call from Murray offering me the deal of a lifetime. (more)

Texas Republican Rep. Joe Barton says he “was Tea Party when Tea Party wasn’t cool.” (more)

LONDON (AP) — BP’s incoming CEO fired the executive responsible for deep water wells like the one that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico and announced a new unit to police safety practices throughout the company. (more)

The “nightmare well” is dead. But the Gulf coast’s bad dream is far from over. (more)

LONDON—Tony Hayward, the departing chief executive of BP PLC, is unrepentant about how the energy giant responded to the U.S.’s largest offshore oil spill. (more)

LONDON (AP) — In just a few days, new Prime Minister David Cameron has openly declared Britain is no more than the “junior partner” of the U.S., irritated Israelis by calling Gaza a prison camp and enraged Pakistanis by suggesting their country exports terrorism. (more)

Robert Dudley, the man charged with righting BP (BP), won’t sound a retreat. Despite the disastrous blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, BP will plunge even deeper into deepwater exploration. Dudley, who becomes the first American chief executive officer of the British oil giant on Oct. 1, will slim BP to its core strength: the high-risk, high-return search for oil and gas in demanding environments. That’s the same strategy that led to the Gulf spill and turned outgoing CEO Tony Hayward into a pariah. It remains alluring because it can generate large profits for companies that avoid calamity. “The key to this industry is replacing earnings, and BP thinks they know how to do that in deep water,” says J. Robinson West, chairman of consultant PFC Energy in Washington. (more)

To many Gulf Coast residents, five words doomed BP Plc’s outgoing chief executive Tony Hayward: ‘I’d like my life back.’ (more)

President Obama has called the BP oil spill “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced,” and so has just about everyone else. Green groups are sounding alarms about the “Catastrophe Along the Gulf Coast,” while CBS, Fox and MSNBC slap “Disaster in the Gulf” chryons on all their spill-related news. Even BP fall guy Tony Hayward, after some early happy talk, admitted the spill was an “environmental catastrophe.” The obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh has been a rare voice arguing that the spill — he calls it “the leak” — is anything less than an ecological calamity, scoffing at the avalanche of end-is-nigh eco-hype. (more)

Democrats have said they are running against George W. Bush this fall, or at least his policies. But on Wednesday, they’ll announce that they’re really running against the Tea Party. (more)

Bob Dudley’s sudden rise to the top at BP PLC shows how the Gulf oil spill has dramatically changed the fortunes of people from local fishermen to corporate executives. (more)

The board of BP PLC is negotiating the departure of its embattled chief executive, Tony Hayward, according to people familiar with the matter, a bid by the U.K. oil titan to move beyond the Gulf of Mexico disaster that has undercut his three-year effort to remake the company. (more)

The chief executive of BP, Tony Hayward, is finalising the details of his imminent exit from BP this weekend as the oil giant prepares to make an announcement on the chief executive’s future possibly within the next 48 hours. (more)

Tony Hayward is to step down as BP’s chief executive within the next ten weeks as the company seeks to draw a line under its disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, sources said Tuesday. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — BP’s oil spill notoriety is reviving unwelcome attention from Congress on another issue: whether the oil company sought the release of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi to help get a $900 million exploration agreement with Libya off the ground. (more)

The budget squeeze on one of the British oil giant’s most challenging projects underscores a tension at the heart of BP under Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward. (more)

Florida Governor and independent Senate candidate Charlie Crist is looking for campaign donations from the Democrats’ side of the aisle now, talking up potential contributors that he wouldn’t have dreamed of while still a member of the GOP. (more)

I just returned from a whirlwind trip to Los Angeles, where I was taping panel discussions for the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” episodes airing on TV Guide Network. When “work” means sitting around a table with Susie Essman, Rich Eisen, Dave Foley and Jo Koy, talking about whether sex is the ultimate consolation or if Koreans really do eat dog, as Larry David asserts in the series, I’m not sure we shouldn’t redefine the concept of “a job.” I was just happy not to talk about BP for a minute—the rest was icing. And for the record, alcohol, not sex, is the ultimate consolation. (more)