Did Sarah Palin Top Rush Limbaugh’s Idiotic BP Oil Spill Remarks?

28 by Zachary Shahan on June 3, 2010

Can Sarah Palin top Rush Limbaugh for most ridiculous BP oil spill statement? Of course.

After reading one of Sarah Palin's latest remarks, my mind has almost gone blank. Perhaps she is actually a Buddhist teacher in disguise and these confusing or nonsensical one-liners she puts out are really Zen kōans geared at bringing more people to enlightenment.

Here is the one that almost brought me to enlightenment (from Palin's Twitter feed): "Extreme Greenies:see now why we push'drill,baby,drill'of known reserves&promising finds in safe onshore places like ANWR? Now do you get it?"

Unfortunately, my logical brain stepped in too quickly (or Sarah Palin isn't actually a Zen teacher).

First of all, who has supported offshore drilling all along (including since the BP oil disaster started) -- Palin and her crew or "extreme greenies"? Palin and her crew.

Secondly, ruining the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for a minimal amount of oil would really be a positive step, wouldn't it? No.

Thirdly, are there no other ways to get energy domestically that would be much safer and cleaner? Yes! There are. But Sarah and friends care more about drilling in ANWR and offshore for oil than promoting solar, wind, or other clean energy.

As Michael Graham Richard over at TreeHugger writes, "There is also a false choice implied here. As if the only choices available to us were to drill offshore or onshore (or both, which is what Palin really wants). Even if drilling was allowed in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), it would take years for that oil to start to flow, and it wouldn't make that big a difference on the supply side of things."

Somehow, though, Ms. Palin thinks that environmentalists' secret goal is perhaps to destroy the environment?

"Radical environmentalists: you are damaging the planet with your efforts to lock up safer drilling areas. There’s nothing clean and green about your misguided, nonsensical radicalism, and Americans are on to you as we question your true motives," Palin writes on her Facebook page.

Wow, I think I almost achieved enlightenment again.

It seems that Palin is either teaming up with Rush Limbaugh here or trying to compete with him for most idiotic BP oil spill statement.

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Category: Media, Politics | Tags: bp, bp oil spill, Limbaugh, oil spill, Palin, rush limbaugh, sarah palin

About the Author:

Zach is currently the editor of Planetsave.com and Cleantechnica.com. He writes for numerous other green sites around the web as well. Zach has in-depth experience in a range of fields connected with the environment and society. He has a B.A. in environmental studies and sociology and a Master’s in city and regional planning. Learn more about Zach at ZacharyShahan.com.

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Tawny Jones

Gov. Sarah Palin is America’s foremost authority on energy policy, especially as it pertains to national security. She is a leading expert on proper methods of extracting fossil fuel resources while preserving the natural environment. Thank you for the lovely caption photo of the gorgeous Governor.

Robert

Just because she was governor of AK for a few months it does not make her an expert
in the oil or environmental industries, the woman is a moron!!

traffikator

I think tawny was just being sarcastic. It is funny as hell. BTW, she should write a book on oil drilling and environmental issues!

Lisa

My God Tawny, get a grip on reality! Our nation is facing an environmental disaster of epic proportions and you cut and paste a tidbit from Palin’s inflated and totally bogus bio in support of her arrogant, insensitive and stupidly revisionist remarks on the subject? God help us all…
Brian

Will someone please stop listening to this woman,she is obviously not very bright.
Rick

Why are you knocking buddhism? If you want to take a shot at religion why don’t you remark about Pallin’s witchcraft (c)hristian church instead.

Zach

Well, actually, i wasn’t knocking Buddhism, just making a joke analogy. Of course, if it weren’t a joke it would be a great disservice to the religion.

Cheswa

“But Sarah and friends care more about drilling in ANWR and offshore for oil than promoting solar, wind, or other clean energy.” Um yea, maybe because we need it dumbos. It has far many more uses besides gas. I’d like to see you use the sun and wind to produce the products that petroleum does. Solar energy has it’s useful applications but wind energy is a joke!
The little boy who wrote this article….you know the one with the oh so impressive resume..lol… lives in a fantasy world. One that the real scientific community has proven to not exist. Thanks for the entertainment though…you people are always good for a laugh or two.

Javalation

The sooner we get on with alternative(green) energy development, the longer we can stretch out having oil for those other petro-products. Unlike those green energy sources, the quantity of petroleum is limited, and we have passed the peak of oil production, which is why we’re drilling in places that are so eco-dangerous. It is ludicrous for Palin to attack environmentalist for their recognition of the danger ages ago. Didn’t hear them ranting “Drill Baby Drill” just a year ago jeering Obama for his conservative approach to drilling. But apparently she knows that she can count on the compartmentalizing mentality of her devotees, who expunge her many ignorant remarks

showme69

Javalation,

You said, “we have passed the peak of oil production”. Where did you hear that? From Al Gore and the nuts still pushing the global warming hoax to line their own pockets? Oil will be the predominant energy source for the foreseeable future. Wind and solar have so many negatives, it’s laughable. The free-market should dictate where we head for our energy needs, not the government.

You also said, that’s why “we’re drilling in places that are so eco-dangerous.” Actually, I believe that has more to do with environmental whackos blocking the drilling in areas that aren’t “eco-dangerous”, whatever that means.

The oil leak in the Gulf is horrible, but do we remove air travel as an option because a plane crashes? No. And we should continue to drill, baby, drill. I need diesel for my Super Duty.

Voton

Your biography’s a parody, isn’t it, “Zachary?” Every line is funnier than the last.
Larry Linn

When did spokes-model Palin get hired to do PR for OPEC?
Daisy

To paragraph four… *blink, blink* because the greenies pushed her offshore, she thought that still getting oil from the homeland was a good idea, so that makes her… evil?

I love the stuttering patch Mr. Shahan had over the next paragraph too; “solar, wind, or… or… other clean energy.” Please excuse my moment of glee, but solar isn’t all that efficient, and it is expensive. Wind is a horrible source of energy, bad for the environment, bad for aesthetics (assuming you actually care about the landscape and the birds), and unpredictable. Other clean energy? For the love of heaven, man, just say it – nuclear! Yes, I do think we should be using nuclear energy. Unfortunately the left demonized nuclear before they realized it was a good and safe idea… so that won’t happen anytime soon. Do you realize a nuclear power plant pays for itself and starts generating enormous revenue inside of five years? The only reason for Chernobyl was that the engineers weren’t trained and didn’t know what to do or recognize the controls. Oh, and it is also the cleanest energy on the planet.

Palin teaming up with Limbaugh… don’t make me laugh. I think they should write a book together, or run for office together, maybe he could get her to be more bold about her conservatism. Personally, they are both too liberal from my point of view. Yes, you read that right, I am even more conservative! *maniacal laugh for dramatic effect*

Jane

Dear Daisy
Everyone is entitled to their opinion and I do recognize that. But your Chernobyl statement is purely laughable. Without the people that worked there trying to maintain the aging and outdated equipment the “accident” would have happened years before.

I’m just saying… a bit of research would be nice… then again with this general thread that would be too much to ask either way…
Javalation

Solar developers has made giant technological breakthroughs recently and are on the verge of a few others. Solar can make a home or business energy independent, and with a few more developments, like electric cars, can free each of us totally from the big energy companies, which they don’t like at all.

Has the nuclear industry solved that little problem of what to do with waste yet? There’s already over 300,000 tons of it laying around, and will be killer radioactive for more than 200,000 years. Hardly what I’d call clean.

Daisy

Oops… only now do I see the graphic at the top of the web page. Now I’ve offended someone.
Robert

She is right. We should drill at Anwar. We should also learn from this catastrophe in the Gulf and not let it happen again. We should have been prepared with an emergency clean up plan headed by the best minds on cleaning up spills.

Instead we have an ineffectual law professor suing the company that has to clean it up. Send in the lawyers instead of the clean up crews.

If we have a major airplane or train wreck do we shut down the trains for six month. This is going to cost the gulf coast major job losses. They have already been devestated. .

BO is the idiot. He is the one who hired Eric Holder

We should be looking to pratical ways to lower our dependence on foriegn oil. We have huge depoits of natural gas. By utilizing these reserves we can bridge the gap between the time it will take to make the alternative fuels practical. Market forces will more efficently bring about change. Wind power won’t run cars and trucks. I’m not ready for $ 5 gas. It isn’t necessary. If there is global warming we are not going to effect it one way or the other with even the most radical methods. We need alternative fuels for a cleaner environment and to lower our cost of energy. These forces alone will bring about change.

I ask myself who could of handled this crisis better BO or Sarah. Its Sarah.

traffikator

What is up with you Palinates, knocking educated people? I suppose you love McCain who graduated at the bottom of a class of nearly 1000? Or that GW who barely made it out of college and who failed in every business venture prior to getting into the white house which he miserably failed also? And now you have the nerve to even bring that dunce, dimwit, lacking intellectual ability, low ethical standards, incomparably stupid…I take that back, you have surpassed her; you really compare her to a Professor? Who literally spanked her ass all over the street? You are