BP Hires 'Go Fuck Yourself' Spokesman as PR Flak

June 7, 2010 (LPAC)—British Petroleum has hired as its new public relations flak the spokeswoman for the Vice President who conducted secret meetings with energy companies, including BP, to come up with the Bush, Jr. regime's energy policy. With its stock tanking, its lying ever more outraging Americans, and its Gulf oil still gushing out of control, BP has hired Anne Womack-Kolton away from the Brunswick Group, the international communications and crisis management firm which BP has been paying to come up with its lies-for-the-rubes campaign since the April 20 spill. Kolton had been a press assistant in the Bush-Cheney White House, starting in 2001, after flakking for the George-Dick campaign show, and in 2004 became press secretary for the Man from the Dark Side. From 2005 to 2007, she was public affairs director at the Department of Energy. Before that, Kolton was director of public affairs at the Department of the Treasury, and previously served as senior advisor to chairman William H. Donaldson at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Hardly your consummate outsider.