Who is writing these editorials under her name? Because it clearly isn't her. Try to imagine Teh Cuda writing this all on her own, I dare you:
With the publication of damaging e-mails from a climate research center in Britain, the radical environmental movement appears to face a tipping point. The revelation of appalling actions by so-called climate change experts allows the American public to finally understand the concerns so many of us have articulated on this issue.
Sarah Palin doesn't know how to spell "articulate", let alone what it means, although it is amusingly ironic to see that word in the first graf of an op-ed supposedly written by the least articulate figure in American politics today - which all by itself is saying something since she's up against the likes of John Cornyn, Jim Inhofe, Jittery Jim DeMint, and a host of Bushian Texans who wouldn't know an apostrophe from a ligature.
Anyway. Having promptly been scorned and battered by facts she ignores or lies about in her propaganda-ed (f'rinstance Media Matters did some fact-checking and Mark over at Norwegianity has a number of links to other debunkers of non-Sarah's phony-baloney and highly contrived anti-global-warming polemic), non-Sarah answers on "her" Facebook page with a surprisingly coherent defense (along with more lying, of course). (Via Digby)
The response to my op-ed by global warming alarmists has been interesting. Former Vice President Al Gore has called me a “denier” and informs us that climate change is “a principle in physics. It’s like gravity. It exists.”
Perhaps he’s right. Climate change is like gravity – a naturally occurring phenomenon that existed long before, and will exist long after, any governmental attempts to affect it.
While there aren't any ten-cent words in the Facebook post - they would be inappropriate in a forum used primarily by adolescents - there is method and flow and sequence, each "idea" leading to the next. This is not something Sarah is now or ever has been any good at.
So who is writing this shit for her? Is it, since they all seem to be centered on protecting the oil industry, some oil company PR flack? Is it someone from the RWNM, say John Hinderaker or Erick Erickson picking up a little loose change in his spare time? Or (as I tend to believe) did Sarahcuda hire super-right posturer and Pat Robertson love-child Lynn Vincent as a permanent member of her staff?But way in the back of the field, there's a long-shot dark horse. Think Progress did the research and discovered how the right-wing had ginned up the whole non-controversy, Swift Boat-style, and there is one name that keeps popping up, a name that may conbine two of my guesses above:
Nov 19:
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– Chris Horner, an operative of the Koch Industries/ExxonMobil-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute, blogged giddily at National Review that although he had not been “able to fully digest this at present,” “the blue dress moment may have arrived” on climate science.
– Sarah Palin appears on Fox News’ O’Reilly Factor to discuss her new book. Palin and O’Reilly compare a young man who briefly hacked into her e-mail account in 2008, calling the incident “extremely disconcerting and disruptive” and “Watergate-lite.” O’Reilly and Plain do not discussed the hacked climate e-mails.
Nov. 20:
– In a front page article, the New York Times’ Andy Revkin reports that the e-mails “might lend themselves to being interpreted as sinister.”
– Myron Ebell, of the Koch Industries/ExxonMobil-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute, releases a statement pointing to the stolen e-mails to conclude that global warming science is “phony.”
– Reading reports on right-wing blogs on air, Rush Limbaugh dedicates a segment to the hacked e-mails, claiming they vindicate his belief that global warming does not exist.
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– ExxonMobil-funded front group FreedomWorks blasts out an e-mail asking “Has the Global Warming Lie and Conspiracy Been Truly Exposed?”
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Nov. 23:
– Heralding the stolen e-mails, infamous climate science skeptic Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) call for congressional investigations against climate scientists.
– Fox News’ Fox Nation headlines the e-mails: “Global Warming’s Waterloo”
– Glenn Beck devotes both his radio and Fox News program to covering Climategate, claims the e-mails show a “brand new reality” on climate science.
– Investors’ Business Daily editorializes that the e-mails show that global warming is “junk science.”
– The ExxonMobil-funded Heritage Foundation publicizes the stolen e-mails.
It may be that the person we think of as "Sarah Palin" is actually the handle of an ExxonMobil-developed cyborg still in the Beta stage and not yet perfected, while the real "Sarah Palin" is an ExxonMobil PR flack the company keeps hidden in a basement churning out speeches and Facebook posts and WaPo prop-eds.
Which means, of course, that there is no "Sarah Palin". She is a 2-part invention of ExxonMobil's campaign to scotch any potential plans or policies to scale back global warming because such plans or policies would of necessity hurt their...what? Profits. Right.
"Sarah Palin" is an unfinished, imperfect cyborg with glitches and bugs galore? It may seem far-fetched at first blush, but when you consider it for a bit you realize that if it was true it would explain an awful lot that doesn't make any sense without it. Sarah Palin, for example.
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