BP’s Social Media Campaign Going About as Well as Capping That Well

Every time I see a BP ad I have two co-existing thoughts.

1. I wish they’d spend the ad money on paying some shrimper or local fish shack owner their screw up is running out of business.

2. Wouldn’t it be fun to vigorously and repeatedly kick Tony Hayward in the tailbone?

So yeah, BP’s ad campaign is failing in my eyes as well as others.

What *is* vastly entertaining is the parody BP Twitter account BPGlobalPR (check it out here).

More people follow them than the useless and not-quite-authentic-sounding official BP account. They’ve even been asked to declare they are not official.

Which, you know, is pretty sad that an obvious parody account is been taken as real. It says a hell a lot more at the mishandling of the situation AND the message than of the folks poking fun at you.

Aryzona School Demands Black & Latino Students’ Faces On Mural Be Changed To White

Remember where you were, when you could still laugh about teabaggers and racists and Arizonans, because funny time is almost over. If the unemployment keeps up — one in five adult white males has no job and will never have a job again — and people keep walking away from their stucco heaps they can’t afford and the states and cities and counties and towns keep passing their aggressive racist laws to rile up the trash even more, shit’s going to very soon become very bad, and whether it’s the National Guard having wars in the Sunbelt Exurbs against armies of crazy old white people who are finally using their hundreds of millions of guns, or whole Latino neighborhoods burned to the ground the way the Klan used to burn down black neighborhoods a century ago, we are in for a long dark night and no light-colored paint is going to fix that.

Yes, the school has since backtracked this crazy BS decision, but the anger lingers. How dare these bastards lighten the skin of a mural of their own students?

I heard about this racist crap on the way home – and still in Aryzona. Here is the original news story.

This makes me absolutely livid. It is bad enough that in general Republicans, Tea Baggers, Klansmen and generic conservative racists hate people based on the color of their skin, or religion, or sexuality, or gender. It is worse that these cretins try to steal votes from folks they don’t agree with or do a multiple of sins to diminish folks. Often they do this in the name of God, which should make for an interesting line-up at the afterlife but I want their evils punished in the hear and now. For Aryzona, they didn’t need another black eye, but they earned it.

Look, racists shout ugly things. When the last two racists on Earth exist, they’ll be white Americans riding together in a rusty El Camino yelling hateful crap drinking Mexican beer out of a 40 oz. and being completely unaware of the irony.

You do NOT kowtow to these bastards. And you certainly do NOT tell your minority kids that their color isn’t good enough for a mural and try to literally whitewash their skin.

The racists are just idiots. The school administrators should have known better. Hell, all of Aryzona should know better.

Here’s Roger Ebert explaining it better than I can.

Plus accompanying video:

Just how angry are people at BP?

– Entry in a BP logo redesign contest

This BBC article answers: probably not enough.

That said, if I see that smug Tony Hayward anywhere near me, I’m kicking him in the junk.

I like all this grandstanding about not “punishing” gas station owners who happen to sell BP. Hell, they had a choice which vendor to go with. Sometimes you bet and lose.

Bob Cesca has done a lot of coverage on this. Apparently the GOP, particularly Mississippi’s Haley Barbour is in total denial that an oil spill actually exists. Typical Republicans.

Honestly, I kinda hope the South suffers for sucking up to Big Oil for decades. Not so much the individual families, but each and every state that kowtows to these bastards just lose billions in tourism. Think I’m being overly cruel? Governor Piyush Jindal wants MORE offshore drilling as Louisiana is losing clean coastline by the minute.

Maybe he wants more of this?

It gets worse.

Check this out and/or watch the following: