Freeper "Bigtigermike" pissed at Palin "trust the oil industry" quote ("Leftist Media lying again!")

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Palin Did Not Say "Trust the Oil Industry" (Leftist Media lying again!)
conservatives4palin ^ | Monday, May 3, 2010 | Ian Lazaran

Posted on Monday, May 03, 2010 5:03:21 PM 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):

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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[TCJ70]

1. Well he's kind of got a point on this one...

...its a stretch to take her quote and make it mean what Huffington Post said. But i don't think it's evidence of media bias but more evidence that you should fact check what you read no matter the source.

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. You mean her political career hasn't been based on "trust the oil industry"? n/t

[Marr]

3. Sorry, I'm about as concerned with this as they are with Limbaugh's distortions.

Maybe that's not what she actually said, but that's certainly been the corporatist position for a very long time. I hope this gains traction, because that *is* the argument being advanced by Corporate America's servants.

If Palin disagrees with it, let her say so, clearly and often. Fine by me.