The Washington Post Responds To Me, and I Reply to the Post

PowerLine ^ | 3/22/14 | John Hinderaker

[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

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

International Globalization Forum, a marxist influenced organization. When you see Philippino marxist Waldo Belden in it (he supported the marxist terrorist group the New Peoples Army - in congressional hearings, 1970’s), and John Cavanaugh of the marxist/Societ asset Institute for Policy Studies (See S. Steven Powell’s “Covert Cadre: Inside the Institute for Policy Studies”), then you know the IGF is red-infected if not poisoned.

IGF is anti-free enterprise and anti-US. Look up their various world “Forums” and see what their programs included.

Should be some more information at www.DiscoverTheNetwork.org and maybe the database www.keywiki.org.

Of course the Wash Post ran their crap. They knew damned well who John Cavanaugh is and what the IPS is.

[FreedomPoster]

AM bump. Excellent article, more need to see this.

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

Time to update the incestuous relationship chart showing who in MSM is married or relative of administration apparatchiks.

[Former Proud Canadian]

"...their purpose is agitprop."

There's the rub. The founders were careful to foster a free, unfettered press to keep the government in line. Today's press toes the government line. This cannot continue in a free republic.

[NTHockey]

My constitutional rights to a free press are violated. Surely there is some bright legal mind here who could argue (successfully) that freedom of the press is not limited to the press only, but to every person.

The courts have repeatedly interpreted “freedom of religion” to mean “freedom from religion”. So too it should rule that “freedom of the press” should mean “freedom from the press”.

[abclily]

Juliet Eilperin has a man’s face.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

She may be suffering with worms...

[SunkenCiv]

> 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.

Thanks Nachum.