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.
(Excerpt) Read more at conservatives4palin.com ...
The Huff Po and Politico are always lying weasels.
Is this guy a tea bagger? (notice lower case)
I know some of the guys there, and you are absolutely right. We need a resurgence of the Washington Times.
Yes, Washington Times a great source
Washington Examiner is another one.
Some of their writers are,
Byron York (formerly of National Review)
Bill Sammon ( formerly of Wash Times)
Michael Barone
and other good Conservtives.
LOL
She had been taxing the the living cr@p out of the oil industry. Taxes in Alaska are higher than little Hugo had before he nationalized everything in-country.
But, that’s OK, the oil industry helped out here by increasing unemployment here by 50%.
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