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As Alaska Melts, Palin Plays Big Oil Denial Game

Posted Sep 24, 08 10:13 AM CDT in Politics,  Opinion 

(Newser) – Alaska is melting, but Sarah Palin doesn’t believe man’s to blame. Then again, McCain’s VP pick is also skeptical about evolution, “which is like not believing in gravity,” writes Robert F. Kennedy Jr in the LA Times. Kennedy recalls his childhood, when Virginia had ski slopes and uncle JFK would come toboggan in his top coat.

“Palin had to keep her head buried particularly deep in an oil well,” to deny the change, but that’s what the oil industry does —Exxon Mobil has pumped $23 million into denying climate change. Palin’s whole political career has been an embrace of Big Oil’s agenda, which brings to mind the top dogs in the current administration. “I guess the only difference between Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney,” muses Kennedy, “is lipstick.”
Source: Los Angeles Times

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In this Aug. 10, 2006 file photo, a worker uses a rope mop to clean up oil in tundra grass from a leak from an oil transit line at the Prudhoe Bay oil field on Alaska's North Slope.   (AP Photo/Al Grillo, file)
In this June 23, 1989 file photo. the Exxon Valdez is pictured being towed out of Prince William Sound in Alaska by a tug boat and a U.S. Coast Guard Cutter.   (AP Photo/Al Gillo, File)
A drilling rig works on Alaska's North Slope, Friday June 15, 2007.   (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin answers questions about the proposed state budget during a news conference in Anchorage, Alaska Monday Dec. 10, 2007.   (AP Photo/Al Grillo)
This undated file photo from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Alaska Image Library shows a polar bear.   (AP Photo/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
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Palin had to keep her head buried particularly deep in an oil well to ever have denied that humans are causing climate change. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

In those days, I recall my uncle, President Kennedy, standing erect as he rode a toboggan in his top coat, never faltering until he slid into the boxwood at the bottom of the hill. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr., on his childhood in a then-snowy Virginia

I guess the only difference between Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney is ... lipstick.
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Palin has expressed skepticism about evolution (which is like not believing in gravity), putting it on par with "creationism," which posits that the Earth was created 6,000 years ago. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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