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The Washington Post Responds To Me, and I Reply to the Post
PowerLine ^ | 3/22/14 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 03/22/2014 9:03:43 PM PDT by Nachum

On Thursday, the Washington Post published an article by Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin titled “The biggest lease holder in Canada’s oil sands isn’t Exxon Mobil or Chevron. It’s the Koch brothers.” The article’s first paragraph included this claim:

The biggest lease holder in the northern Alberta oil sands is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the privately-owned cornerstone of the fortune of conservative Koch brothers Charles and David.

The theme of the article was that the Keystone Pipeline is all about the Koch brothers; or, at least, that this is a plausible claim. The Post authors relied on a report by a far-left group called International Forum on Globalization that I debunked last October.

So Thursday evening, I wrote about the Post article here. I pointed out that Koch is not, in fact, the largest leaser of tar sands land; that Koch will not be a user of the pipeline if it is built; and that construction of the Keystone Pipeline would actually be harmful to Koch’s economic interests, which is why Koch has never taken a position on the pipeline’s construction. The Keystone Pipeline, in short, has nothing whatsoever to do with the Koch brothers.

My post garnered a great deal of attention, and Mufson and Eilperin undertook to respond to it here. It isn’t much of a response: they don’t deny the truth of anything I wrote, and they don’t try to sustain the proposition that Koch is even in favor of the pipeline, let alone the driving force behind it. They lamely suggest that if Koch leased 2 million acres, rather than 1.1 million as they reported on Thursday, then Koch might be the largest leaseholder. But they make no attempt to respond to the official Province of Alberta maps that I posted, which clearly show

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WaPo = Another day, another lie
1 posted on 03/22/2014 9:03:44 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

John keeps nailing these SOBs. And they have no comeback.

Bravo Mr. Hinderaker.


2 posted on 03/22/2014 9:07:19 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Nachum

American MSM journalist, horoscope reader, numerologist, sociologist, witch doctor = SAME


3 posted on 03/22/2014 9:10:51 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Nachum

Excellent piece. Well worth the read.


4 posted on 03/22/2014 9:12:50 PM PDT by marron
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To: DManA

Hinderaker rocks.


5 posted on 03/22/2014 9:18:58 PM PDT by Yardstick
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Bravo Mr. Hinderaker.

Great article. Except for being a lawyer, a resident of Minnesota, and an Ivy Leaguer, he's alright. I wonder if he would run for president.

6 posted on 03/22/2014 9:24:25 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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I wish he’d run for Governor.


7 posted on 03/22/2014 9:25:15 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Nachum

Powerline’s become one of the websites on my must-read list daily


8 posted on 03/22/2014 9:25:32 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Nachum

Wow, powerful stuff!


9 posted on 03/22/2014 9:25:47 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Screw the farmers. I can get everything I need at the grocery store.)
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“It’s not the evidence that’s important, it’s the seriousness of the charge.”


10 posted on 03/22/2014 9:29:15 PM PDT by MNnice
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Once again, the left admits that the ends justify the means.


11 posted on 03/22/2014 9:30:17 PM PDT by Hoodat (Democrats - Opposing Equal Protection since 1828)
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To: Nachum

WOW, that was a factual and verbal a$$ whipping.


12 posted on 03/22/2014 9:34:01 PM PDT by 12th_Monkey (One man one vote is a big fail, when the "one" man is an idiot.)
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Pat Caddell called it. Do you believe it yet?

Pat Caddell slams the media: They have become an “enemy of the people” Sept. 29, 2012(video 26:00)

Emotional Pat Caddell on the MSM ignoring Benghazi: “These people have no honor!” Oct. 27, 2012 (video at link 4:06)

The MSM are enemies of the people!

13 posted on 03/22/2014 9:39:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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I was hoping after Jeff Bezos bought the post it would be a little more neutral instead of the leftwing hackathon that it is. He just dropped in my opinion. Hack on Washington Compost.


14 posted on 03/22/2014 9:39:19 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin
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The Powerline article itself, and its tone, is strong evidence that issues surrounding the Koch brothers’ political and business interests will stir and inflame public debate in this election year. That’s why we wrote the piece. - WaPo

An open admission that they are liars and their purpose is agitprop.

15 posted on 03/22/2014 9:42:19 PM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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J school Rats can’t walk & chew gum.


16 posted on 03/22/2014 9:50:10 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Optimal institutions - optimal economy.)
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Keep hitting them, but people read headlines, not retractions, and the propagandists know this. (I'm done calling these SOBs "journalists".)

The meme is being planted, the facts be damned, and the Devil take the hindmost.

17 posted on 03/22/2014 9:51:32 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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“Fake but Accurate” reporting.


18 posted on 03/22/2014 9:55:02 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Nachum
Outstanding post.

Thanks, Nachum.

19 posted on 03/22/2014 10:43:50 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
I was hoping after Jeff Bezos bought the post it would be a little more neutral instead of the leftwing hackathon that it is.

To his credit, Bezos recently brought The Volokh Conspiracy blog to the Washington Post. Since then, Eugene Volokh has been annoying the hell out of the Post's leftists.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/about/

20 posted on 03/22/2014 11:02:32 PM PDT by TChad (The Obamacare motto: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.)
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