Palin: You Can't Trust Foreign Oil Companies (Todd Palin was once employed by BP...d'oh!)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Gulf Oil Spill: Palin Camp Says You Can't Trust Foreign Oil Companies

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/05/gulf-oil-spill-palin-camp_n_564407.html

Jason Linkins

First Posted: 05- 5-10 12:01 PM | Updated: 05- 5-10 02:44 PM

As much as I try to hew to what I call Weigel's First Constant -- which asserts that a diminished value should be placed on the social network statements that emerge from somewhere in the camp of sometime-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin -- this is just too bizarre not to mention.

See, as everyone knows, Palin is pretty much defined as the ultimate in "Drill, Baby, Drill". And she has so many thoughts on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and What It Means. Mostly, her thoughts evolves slowly, as she learns from other people what she is supposed to think about any given issue. But today, Sarah Inc. took to its Twitter account to offer some lessons about What The Gulf Oil Spill Teaches Us. Her bottom line: don't trust the foreign oils!

Yes, it's obviously the fault of those devious Brits! Commence the racial profiling, right?

Of course, while it's based in Britain, BP is a massive, publicly-traded, multinational energy conglomerate, commonly referred to as a "supermajor". It's just one of three companies that are heavily involved with the Deepwater Horizon facility. The other two are Halliburton, an American company, and TransOcean. Spawned from a U.S. company called Sonat, TransOcean became what it is today after mergers with and acquisitions of various foreign entities. It's now headquartered in Switzerland.

Fun fact! I'm not sure that Palin knows this, but another "supermajor" is ExxonMobil, a United States company that I seem to recall has a rather complicated history with the state of Alaska for some reason.

UPDATE: Many thanks to an emailer named Ben, who reminds me that for eighteen long years, that dodgy, not-to-be-trusted foreign oil company known as British Petroleum employed one Todd Palin.

[jaksavage]

1. Just take their money. nt

[HipChick]

2. Not only is that woman stupid..

but she's an ignorant biotch...

[Angry Dragon]

3. Using gop logic.......todd palin is responsible

for the flood of oil in the gulf and from that I can only deduce that sarah palin is totally responsible for the oil in the golf.

Just using good gop logic to hone my thinking skills.

[Arkana]

4. Then what about Exxon, Miss Quitta From Wasilla?

[UTUSN]

5. K&R #8 for, well well well - & Bristol rakes in the dough for preganancy counseling!1 n/t

[WorseBeforeBetter]

6. "as she learns from other people what she is supposed to think about any given issue"

That sums up Yukon Barbie PERFECTLY.