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We hear that Rachel Whetstone, Google's European communications director, will replace Elliot Schrage as the company's top flack after Schrage left for Facebook. Her background may make her a perfect fit, in more ways than Google would like you to know. Unlike Schrage, Whetstone has some experience with rough-and-tumble politics, having served as chief of staff to British Conservative party leader Michael Howard. She also may be better suited to dealing with CEO Eric Schmidt's periodic outings with mistresses: She herself had an affair with Viscount Astor, a top Tory official, which scuppered her political career and led to her joining Google.
Scandal-ridden Brit Rachel Whetstone to run Google PR
12:00 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By Owen Thomas
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Reporting to the Chief Infidelity Officer?
Hey Rach, say hi to David Cameron. When's he going to turn conservative to match the party name? :)
Al least she didn't get busted hooking up with Jack Donaghy.
can't realy Imagine L & S fiting in well with the Bullingdon crowd thats running the tories thease days.
Anyone remember Michael Howard's leadership of the Tories? "Rough-and-tumble politics" is right, if you count getting roughed up over and over again by Tony Blair in the Commons and leading a powerless party and then losing big in the 2005 elections.
Oh, HELLO! She's BRITISH for god's sake; the British marry so they can indulge in their favorite form of sex: adultery.
As the great Murphy Brown once said, "this isn't a story; it's a GIVEN!"
I though us nrits wher all into S&M le vice anglaise
@Mouser_UK: Only the ones who went to boarding school, though.
murphy brown quotes! awesome!
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