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Title: Sarah Palin's Oil Regulation" Lies"
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HUFFINGTON POST
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/geoff ... ins-oil-regulati_b_616724.html
Published: Jun 18, 2010
Author: Geoffrey Dunn
Post Date: 2010-06-18 12:23:21 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 2043
Comments: 79
Sarah Palin has been busted for so many lies in the past year and a half, it's become nearly impossible to keep track of them all. Whenever she opens her mouth, she simply cannot stop herself from engaging in duplicities, exaggerations and half-truths that not-so-coincidentally always distort the political record in her favor. It's a pathology.
She did it again this week during a somewhat contentious interview with Bill O'Reilly in which she chastised her Fox News host out the gate: "I kind of have a big beef with you too though, Bill, if you don't acknowledge that President Obama is wrong on his call for a need for energy policy."
O'Reilly lied, too, of course, when he said, "I'm pleased to have you on the program tonight [as] there is not a governor in the United States who has more experience than you do dealing with the oil companies." Sarah Palin? The half-governor? Uh, Alaska isn't even the largest oil-producing state in the union. Texas is, followed by Alaska, California... and you didn't guess it: North Dakota. Is anyone touting current North Dakota governor John Hoeven as a national expert in resource policy? And why does everyone -- including Palin herself -- keep pretending that she is still governor?
As Andrew Halcro, the bright and witty Anchorage based businessman who ran against Palin for governor in 2006, wrote me yesterday: "Listening to Sarah Palin lecture on the oil-and-gas industry is like listening to Bernie Madoff talk about safe investing; zero credibility."
Remember, Halcro is someone from Palin's own party in Alaska. Indeed, Palin's mishandling of Alaska's natural gas and oil reserves in the Last Frontier turned nearly all interested parties against her by the time of her resignation -- from oil producers to environmentalists alike. Americans will recall her speech at the Republican National convention in which she claimed that "we began" to build a $40-billion natural gas pipeline "to help lead America to energy independence."
Only there was and is no pipeline. It has never been built. If it's ever built, it will be constructed not because of Palin but in spite of her.
Drill, baby, drill? Shill, baby, shill is more like it. Sarah Palin talks the talk, but she has never walked the walk in her life, especially when it comes to resource management. Not only did she quit her failed governorship, she also quit her appointed position to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after serving little more than a year. That's two-for-two in the last decade alone. Sarah Palin a doer? Hardly.
Here's one of Palin's big laughers from the interview. When asked by O'Reilly is "how to stop" the oil leak, Palin responded:
Got that, Bill? You betcha. Then there was the matter of her inflating her own resume again:
Only Palin didn't really "set up" the PSIO so much as reconfigure it as a photo-op session. A year earlier, her Republican predecessor, Frank Murkowski, had established the Arctic Pipeline Technology Team to "ensure the integrity of oil pipeline infrastructure and continued crude oil production."
Most significantly, a journalist friend of mine in Anchorage who has covered resource issues in Alaska for more than a decade assured me yesterday:
I just this week received a massive dump of Palin's emails through an Alaska Public Records Act request. It provides a fascinating glimpse of how Palin dealt with the oil industry. Writing on her infamous private Yahoo account on which she conducted state business, Palin expressed her desire to host a fish barbecue in Juneau during the spring of 2007 for representatives from TransCanada Corp., which she essentially selected to build the pipeline. Here, in her inimitable own words:
The level of "expertise" is astonishing. And, yes, Sarah, I think we know what you mean (wink).
Watch Palin's performance on O'Reilly closely. There is a deep inner anger boiling beneath the surface with every phrase she recites. Her smiles are forced and contrived. Each response is uttered in odd, staccatoed cadences, as though someone has pulled the string on a talking doll. Palin's currency in American politics is not her faux expertise on energy resources -- it's her inner rage. And those who share it with her tap into that common anger and see her as their leader. It is as ugly as it is dangerous.
Palin's pretentions and duplicities would all be a joke if the potential political implications were not now so serious. Sarah Palin is clearly positioning herself for a run at the presidency in 2012. Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply fooling themselves. My sources in Wasilla have assured me that Palin fully believes that "God has opened the door for her." With every Facebook lie she posts, with every Fox News distortion she spews, she is trying to reconstruct her tarnished image as an expert in resource production and foreign affairs. P.T. Barnum may have been right that there is a sucker born in America every minute. Sarah Palin is now their ring leader.
Perhaps the biggest joke being fobbed by Palin to the American public is that she is some sort of expert on energy issues. Sarah Palin isn't an expert on anything -- remember that this is a woman who didn't know the difference between England and Great Britain as she began her not-so-celebrated run for the vice-presidency -- and who quit her governorship after two-and-a-half years of failed leadership and being found guilty of "abuse of power" in the Last Frontier. It's all smoke and mirrors. She is fed a series of talking points by her advisers before each of her punditry appearances and then dishes them out in what my friends in Alaska have dubbed "word salads" -- without the dressing.
The Dutch. They are known... and the Norwegian. They are known for -- for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills.
... as governor of Alaska, what I did in dealing with the oil companies and I'll betcha 75% of my time was being taken up by energy issues here in this state. I had to set up our Petroleum Systems Integrity Office [PSIO] so that we could be there on the front lines making sure what the oil companies were telling us was legit when they were dealing with their corroded pipes that we find out and other lax maintenance issues.
Aside from conducting pretty thorough reviews of some fires that broke out at BP-operated facilities on the North Slope, PSIO never really did anything. The gap analysis concerning coverage that was promised was never written. It's really hard to find any PSIO accomplishments at all...
Cool! We should cook it [salmon] for whomever needs to have that get-together reception opportunity....I'll let AGIA folks know the fish is a good opportunity to have folks over for informal gasoline chat....
Tonight's great for Todd and me--now these type of events can be quite informal and still be successful. There's a Costco in Juneau, if you know what I mean. And my family is quite capable of setting out food and cleaning up afterwards.
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Could you keep the opinion pieces in the correct place please
I'll stick up for Brian SS here. I have it on good authority that he TRIED to put this opinion piece in it's proper place . . . but there wasn't room. w.a.r.'s head was already up obama's butt.
If I could, I would. Every article that Badeye posts he puts into "Obama Wars". How come you never admonish him?
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
Palindroids and lesser of two evil promoters are never admonished for anything other than using the 'n' word.
Making the world safe for United Fruit.
war is saying you are biased. He is on the exact same path he went down at FR, LP, Freedom4um. war is all fight, all day, every day. pure ego.
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w.a.r.'s head was already up obama's butt. Another homo reference from a Palindroid. Must be a prerequisite.
Making the world safe for United Fruit.
White Sands wants war banned, the sign of a failed poster.
Making the world safe for United Fruit.
w.a.r. couldn't fight his way out of a piss soaked paper bag.
If I could, I would. Good. Things are back to normal. You had me going for a minute there.
If I could, I would. At one point here it was one out of three posts. AT LP it was every post.
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
Good. Things are back to normal. You had me going for a minute there. Since you've only been here a short time with very little interaction how could you possibly know what "normal' is for any poster? I thought you posted that you liked Bungle in the Jungle. My mistake.... evidently you're another poster who lies.
Making the world safe for United Fruit.
Evidently the Sacred Sabra isn't getting her queenly way. She reminds me of Marguerite, same sense of entitlement, and hatred and disdain for the untribes.
Making the world safe for United Fruit.
Whitey is irrelevant. Ignore Amos is probably byteshredder...
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
So who's lying?
If I could, I would. Things are back to normal. You had me going for a minute there. Since you've only been here a short time with very little interaction how could you possibly know what "normal' is for any poster? I gave you a left-handed compliment earlier when you posted something almost rational. Your posting of your "you must be a palindroid" bullshit showed me that things were back to normal. I.E. you posting tripe.
If I could, I would. Can byteshredder post without using his stupid graphics? Whitey is trying to be LF's Marguerite.
This is not an "opinion piece".
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
My thoughts exactly...all graphics all the time.
He can't make it a day without me....(chuckle)
Just 10 days prior to the explosion, the Obama administration’s regulators gave the oil rig a pass, and last year the Obama administration granted BP a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its drilling operation.
Any article that is not a Sarah 'rah, rah, sis boom bah' is an opinion piece to some, no matter how many facts are presented. She must hand out blinders at her rallies.
Making the world safe for United Fruit.
Sarah Palin quitting her public obligation as Governor for Fox's cash, The Bush Bots and Republicans high fived Sarahs dash for cash,
And thanks to your prodigious posting habits, I don't have to.
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
Come on. Yes it is.
I have it on good authority that he TRIED to put this opinion piece in it's proper place . . . but there wasn't room. w.a.r.'s head was already up obama's butt. LMAO! 10 RING! "Fire for effect!" LOL!
Quoted by PDS insane assholes every where.
Chyea...and give it a 12 for originality... [snicker]
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace I'm biased, obviously, given the shit I'm subjected to daily here from the anti groupie. Badeye posted on 2010-06-10 11:34:31 ET Reply Trace Private Reply
Quoted by PDS insane assholes every where.
I've never noticed. But true Americans are at war with Obama, for their freedom and livelihood. I mean come on this guy is for killing live babies after birth. A real sicko.
This is an opinion piece. Opinion pieces can have some facts in them. This is not news. This is a rant of a liberal loser.
A news article would contain just the news. Not the opinion that she is lying or the other characterizations given in this opinion piece. A news article would be something like Sarah Palin gave a speech today at X and she said Y. Not this drivel. Get it right from now on please. Then it wont be a point of contention. Thanks.
White Sands isn't irrelevant. He posts good articles and isn't an Obamunist. By definition people who oppose Obama are superior to supporters of zero.
By definition you are a collectivist is too because St Sarah is on the record blindly suppporting Israel and they are a socialist county to the point of communistic ideals ie: they love their collectives, have socialized health care, take billions from other countries with no plan to pay it back, etc etc. And you have expressed your avid support of her many, many times. See how that works?? You also must hate Christians too as you seem to see nothing wrong with WS constantly smearing the largest Christian church in the world, while giving similiar behaviors exhibited by adherents of her own religion/ethnic group, or whatever her changing definition is at the moment, a pass. Unbiased anyone?? When you blindly contrive allegiances and unfairly brand posters because they are against your candidate of choice, or have exhibited the same attitudes as the SCOTUS in accepting a legitimately elected president with all his faults and flaws so discussion can progress beyond the childish tantrum stages, it can also be made to work against YOU. You need to quit with the 'either or' as nothing in this world is that pure or that simple.
Making the world safe for United Fruit.
Quoted by PDS insane assholes every where.
I love how Palin worshippers are so sweet even on their supposed Sabbath. But does Satan really have a Sabbath? How's your new Rhinestone collar and leash. I hear they look real stylish.
Making the world safe for United Fruit.
First off. I would rather follow St. Sarah then Satanist Obama. Next give me an example.
The Catholics changed the 10 commandments. They are not christian. I mean come on the pope said good things about Islam the religion of satan.
I do nothing blindly. There are reasons behind what I say. Who have I blindy branded?
Quoted by PDS insane assholes every where.
Well?
LOL! Well, as soon as "man sauce" is mentioned YOU show up freddy boy, just like clockwork! LOL!
Quoted by PDS insane assholes every where.
The Leadpenny handed you your ass, Nancy. LOLOL
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#2. To: A K A Stone, brian ss, w.a.r. (#1)
Could you keep the opinion pieces in the correct place please
But I can't, so I won't.
#3. To: A K A Stone (#1)
#4. To: war (#3)
Every article that Badeye posts he puts into "Obama Wars". How come you never admonish him?
#5. To: A K A Stone (#3)
(Edited)
Toss: ADL,CAIR and the Vatican into the pit they belong in.
#6. To: Ignore Amos (#2)
I have it on good authority that he TRIED to put this opinion piece in it's proper place . . . but there wasn't room.
#7. To: WhiteSands (#5)
#8. To: WhiteSands (#5)
war is all fight, all day, every day.
But I can't, so I won't.
#9. To: mininggold (#6)
But I can't, so I won't.
#10. To: mininggold (#7)
White Sands wants war banned
#11. To: Ignore Amos (#9)
#12. To: war (#10)
At one point here it was one out of three posts. AT LP it was every post.
#13. To: mininggold (#12)
#14. To: mininggold (#11)
I thought you posted that you liked Bungle in the Jungle. My mistake.... evidently you're another poster who lies.
But I can't, so I won't.
#15. To: mininggold (#11)
Good.
But I can't, so I won't.
#16. To: war (#13)
Whitey is irrelevant. Ignore Amos is probably byteshredder...
#17. To: A K A Stone (#1)
#18. To: Skip Intro, war (#16)
Can byteshredder post without using his stupid graphics?
#19. To: mininggold (#4)
#20. To: Brian S (#17)
This is not an "opinion piece".
#21. To: Brian S (#0)
ghostwriter glam book,and then the paid speaking circuit marks her as an opportunist,
exactly the right character for the Global elites.
No wonder Henry Kissinger was all smiles.
Having accepted this a good political move,.....akin to Dubbya's AWOL ANG period.
#22. To: Badeye (#19)
#23. To: Brian S (#17)
Sarah Palin has been busted for so many lies in the past year and a half, it's become nearly impossible to keep track of them all. Whenever she opens her mouth, she simply cannot stop herself from engaging in duplicities, exaggerations and half-truths that not-so-coincidentally always distort the political record in her favor. It's a pathology.
#24. To: Ignore Amos, A K A Stone, brian ss, vile beyond mere words TRASH aka w.a.r. (#2)
I'll stick up for Brian SS here.
#25. To: Mad Dog (#24)
#26. To: vile beyond mere words TRASH aka war (#25)
#27. To: war (#3)
#28. To: mininggold (#20)
Any article that is not a Sarah 'rah, rah, sis boom bah' is an opinion piece to some, no matter how many facts are presented. She must hand out blinders at her rallies.
#29. To: Brian S. mininggold (#28)
#30. To: war (#13)
Whitey is irrelevant. Ignore Amos is probably byteshredder...
#31. To: A K A Stone (#30)
White Sands isn't irrelevant. He posts good articles and isn't an Obamunist. By definition people who oppose Obama are superior to supporters of zero.
#32. To: skank hag aka mininggold (#31)
#33. To: Mad Dog (#32)
(Edited)
To: skank hag aka mininggold
#34. To: mininggold (#31)
St Sarah is on the record blindly suppporting Israel
#35. To: mininggold (#31)
You also must hate Christians too as you seem to see nothing wrong with WS constantly smearing the largest Christian church in the world, while giving similiar behaviors exhibited by adherents of her own religion/ethnic group, or whatever her changing definition is at the moment, a pass. Unbiased anyone??
#36. To: mininggold (#31)
#37. To: skank hag aka mininggold (#33)
#38. To: Mad Dog (#37)
How's your new Rhinestone collar and leash? I hear they look real stylish.
#39. To: Fred Mertz (#38)
#40. To: Mad Dog (#39)
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