Posted on 05/03/2010 5:03:21 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
Andy Barr from Politico and the Huffington Post have put up misleading headlines regarding Governor Palin's comments over the weekend about offshore drilling and the oil spill. The headlines from Barr and the Huffington Post would lead one to believe that Palin had "urged the country to "'trust the oil industry.'" Barr and the Huffington Post cite the Kansas City Star's write-up of her speech at the Preserving American Liberty Conference Saturday night as the support for their headlines.
Here's what the Kansas City Star reports that she said (emphasis added):
[T]he former Alaska governor called the oil spill “very tragic” but added: “I want our country to be able to trust the oil industry.”
As you can see, she did not say what the headlines from Barr and the Huffington Post are implying. The headlines imply that what she said in response to the oil spill was that we should trust the oil industry. What Barr and the Huffington Post are implying that she said runs in complete contrast to what she is quoted as saying by the Kansas City Star. She clearly says that we need to be able to trust the oil industry, not that we should trust the oil industry. There's a dramatic difference between saying that "we need to be able to trust" and "we should trust" as the former suggests that the trust needs to be earned while the latter suggests the trust has already been earned.
It's impossible to read Governor Palin's comments, especially in the context of her Facebook statement on the matter (a statement that has earned praise even from far-left hacks), in the same fashion that Barr and the Huffington Post read it unless you were purposefully trying to distort her comments.
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I think I would trust big oil more than our setting resident.
I wish she would have said something along the lines of “let’s be adults, in modern society mistakes often have big consequences, let’s fix the problem and not whine.”
Politico - Pravda on the Potomac, and HuffPost. Probably more left-wing than Pravda and Izvestia ever were.
She basically said just that, in her recent Facebook posting.
... let’s fix the problem and not whine.
Well, maybe you think you have a better way of putting it than Sarah Palin... but I can assure you -- if you had used that phrase... and you were some prominent politician... you would be getting hammered big-time right now ... LOL ...
Leftists lie.
All the time.
About everything.
Skunks stink.
Sharks bite.
Leftists lie.
It’s what they do.
She basically said just that, in her recent Facebook posting.
Ummmm... "basically saying it" -- and -- "saying it" are two different things. People who have their words torn apart know the difference between "basically saying it" and "saying it" ...
I would say that Sarah Palin knows how to "say it" much better than a lot who may be posting here. She's had a lot of experience with it. ... :-)
POLITICO is usually posted on FR by the Palin bashers.
They are loyal Democrats with a few Mitt staffers.
((((((Palin Ping)))))))
Well, the only reason why I “piped up” was that other poster figure that Palin’s words weren’t specifically the right words... hence... my comment on “basically” ... :-) ...
Other than that, I don’t care too much, because I figure Sarah Palin knows how to say those things and I think she says them just right ...
Trust the government. They will protect you from oil spills.
If you run into anyone that trusts Obama more than the oil industry please post here.
She clearly says that we need to be able to trust the oil industry, not that we should trust the oil industry.Regardless, I trust the oil industry far more than I trust the Demwits and the Kenyan stooge of the King of Saudi Arabia. Thanks Bigtigermike.
We must all bow to the Messiah or we will become one of the 25m that Bill Ayres talked about exterminating.
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