Palin, HERSELF, provides the other 16.5% she was referring to. She graciously allowed Alaska to take the credit for the energy SHE produces.

And besides, Factcheck.org is SEXIST!

Palin would have been correct to say that Alaska produces just over 14 percent of all the oil produced in the U.S., leaving out imports and leaving out other forms of power. According to the federal government's Energy Information Administration, Alaskan wells produced 263.6 million barrels of oil in 2007, or 14.3 percent of the total U.S. production of 1.8 billion barrels.

But Alaskan production accounts for only 4.8 percent of all the crude oil and petroleum products supplied to the U.S. in 2007, counting both domestic production and imports from other nations. According to EIA, the total supply was just over 5.5 billion barrels in 2007.

Furthermore, Palin said "energy," not "oil," so she was actually much further off the mark. According to EIA, Alaska actually produced 2,417.1 trillion BTUs [British Thermal Units] of energy in 2005, the last year for which full state numbers are available. That's equal to just 3.5 percent of the country's domestic energy production.

To the GOP, Energy = 0il. Stop trying to confuse us with facts, factcheck.org

/and 14% = 20%
/and "produced by" = "consumed by"

That can't be true.. McCain himself said she probably knows more about energy than anyone in the United States. Certainly someone with such a probability can't be that far off in her assessment of her states energy production.

You know, you'd think they would back off the lies for, I dunno, a week? to givep eople some time to calm down about them lying.

The McCain campaign is turning in to a really bad joke.

Rascal King: You know, you'd think they would back off the lies for, I dunno, a week? to givep eople some time to calm down about them lying.

I don't know if she is lying for sure. Maybe she really thinks her state does produce 20% of the nations energy in which case she was just horribly misinformed. Sometimes lies are very blatant and sometimes you have to question whether they are just parroting something someone told them and assuming it to be a fact.

She said thanks but no thanks to the bridge to nowhere.
well not exactly thanks but no thanks
more like "hurry the Hell up before the taxpayer catches on"
But now she's against it.

Right?
^{(^)}

wheric: Sometimes lies are very blatant and sometimes you have to question whether they are just parroting something someone told them and assuming it to be a fact.


And which of those people would you want running the country? A liar or someone that is willfully misinformed? Ok I know we have that now, but going forward....

Factcheck.org doesn't know as much about energy as Sarah Palin does. In fact, no one does.

wheric: Rascal King: You know, you'd think they would back off the lies for, I dunno, a week? to givep eople some time to calm down about them lying.

I don't know if she is lying for sure. Maybe she really thinks her state does produce 20% of the nations energy in which case she was just horribly misinformed. Sometimes lies are very blatant and sometimes you have to question whether they are just parroting something someone told them and assuming it to be a fact.

Oh, so she's not a liar - just a gullible parrot.

No wonder Cheney didn't want the list published of who the members of his secret energy task force was. It was only Sarah Palin briefing Cheney. Who else could it have been?

Dinki: wheric: Sometimes lies are very blatant and sometimes you have to question whether they are just parroting something someone told them and assuming it to be a fact.


And which of those people would you want running the country? A liar or someone that is willfully misinformed? Ok I know we have that now, but going forward....

Can I answer 'neither'?

wheric: Can I answer 'neither'?

Why do you hate America?

This isn't a big deal. She got the numbers from McCain and those were just rough estimates with a margin of error of plus/minus 20 percent.

Former P.O.W. Sen. McCain, who was a P.O.W. during the Vietnam War, would have given her the precise percentage down to the 17th decimal, but injuries sustained during his heroic and valorious service as a P.O.W. in Hanoi have left him unable to use a calculator.

coyote71: left him unable to use a calculator.

Snert.

TheGrayCat: She graciously allowed Alaska to take the credit for the energy SHE produces.

Drill baby drill!

Leave Sarah alone.
She knows more about energy than anyone in America. Honest John McCain said so. If she says Alaska produces 20% of the US energy supply, then that's the way it is. Everyone else is wrong.

Be fruitful. And multiply.

That is more of the same. Dubya doesn't care much what he says so long as it is what he thinks it is what we ought to hear. Neither does Saracuda.

Psychotropic: Leave Sarah alone.
She knows more about energy than anyone in America. Honest John McCain said so. If she says Alaska produces 20% of the US energy supply, then that's the way it is. Everyone else is wrong.

Of course! I mean, how COULD factcheck.org know more? Are they commander-in-chief of the Alaskan National Guard?? Do they live close to Russia?? NO! ONLY Sarah Palin would knows about these things. If we don't elect her as vice-president this country will implode on itself and probably be taken over by Canada by force.

coyote71: valorious service as a P.O.W. in Hanoi have left him unable to use a calculator.

Can't...stop...laughing.
+1 for you, sir!

Hey, take it easy, Palin's only reason for being on this earth was to spray out children and she is now running for VP so I think we can just excuse all of these mistakes she is making.

You guys want too much truth and experience! Lower the fricken bar a bit, jeez.

And leave McCain alone too! Its hard to work a computer once you have been a POW with all those war injuries!

you guys are heartless

Hollie Maea: Factcheck.org doesn't know as much about energy as Sarah Palin does. In fact, no one does.

Sarah Palin learns by osmosis.
She once slept at a hospital and was correcting heart surgeons the very next day.

I just came in here to see the Office Space picture.

Has she told the truth about anything yet? I would like to see THAT countdown.

Question: How can you tell when Sarah Palin is lying?
Answer: Her lips are moving.

Walker: Question: How can you tell when Sarah Palin is lying?
Answer: Her lips are moving.

Sexist.

Using the term "lips" is a direct reference to Obama's "Lipstick on a pig" slander against Ms. Palin. This, of course, is tantamount to calling Sarah a pig. It's a sad day when people start judging politicians on their state of physical fitness. So Sarah is putting on a few pounds. For a woman of her age, that's perfectly normal. It's people like you who expect real women to look like those plastic Barbie dolls that you see in your filthy magazines that are setting the women of this nation back!

Has this woman said ANYTHING truthful in the last two weeks? At all? Like, if she went to McDonald's, orders a Bic Mac, when she gets to the window does she start claiming she actually ordered a chicken sandwich?

It's actually starting to look a little... Well, pathological. I've known a few pathological liars (or did I?) and it seems very much like this. They do it without thinking about it. They may even believe it themselves, because in their head it's completely true.

Think about Hillary's "Sniper" gaffe, and you get the same idea. All the way through her campaign, I didn't think it could ever get as bad as some of the bullshiat she made up. Then, Palin came along and blew her the hell out of the water.

Walker: Question: How can you tell when Sarah Palin is lying?
Answer: Her lips are moving.

Oh come on! I'm sure she wrote down some lies, as well.

Shadowknight: It's actually starting to look a little... Well, pathological.

It's incredible.

Check out this little tidbit:

Turns out Palin didn't quite shut down the Bridge to Nowhere after all. She held on to $73 million federal dollars for a scaled down Bridge to Nowhere.

She is actually still planning to use federal funds to build a bridge to Gravina Island.

Can you farking believe this shiat?

Skleenar: Shadowknight: It's actually starting to look a little... Well, pathological.

It's incredible.

Check out this little tidbit:

Turns out Palin didn't quite shut down the Bridge to Nowhere after all. She held on to $73 million federal dollars for a scaled down Bridge to Nowhere.

She is actually still planning to use federal funds to build a bridge to Gravina Island.

Can you farking believe this shiat?

Well, since she kept the $223 million from the originial bridge, I wouldn't be surprised at this point if this $73 was of a brand new fund.

Shadowknight: Well, since she kept the $223 million from the originial bridge, I wouldn't be surprised at this point if this $73 was of a brand new fund.

From the link in the link:

But Gov. Palin's administration acknowledges that it is still pursuing a project that would link Ketchikan to its airport -- with the help of as much as $73 million in federal funds earmarked by Congress for the original project.

"What the media isn't reporting is that the project isn't dead," Roger Wetherell, spokesman for Alaska's Department of Transportation, said. In a process begun this past winter, the state's DOT is currently considering (PDF) a number of alternative solutions (five other possible bridges or three different ferry routes) to link Ketchikan and Gravina Island.

The DOT has not yet developed cost estimates for those proposals, Wetherell said, but $73 million of the approximately $223 million Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) and Rep. Don Young (R-AK) earmarked for the bridge in 2005 has been set aside for the Gravina Access Project.

Skleenar: From the link in the link:

Wow... That's just completely AWESOME. Seriously. How about Obama's camp start yelling about THIS from the rooftops?

Shadowknight: Skleenar: From the link in the link:

Wow... That's just completely AWESOME. Seriously. How about Obama's camp start yelling about THIS from the rooftops?

Given his new style of campaigning, I think he will. This is just too good to pass up. Doesn't Palin understand that we can find this stuff out?

A governor isn't doing their job if they don't try to get as much money as possible into their state's economy.

cameroncrazy1984: Doesn't Palin understand that we can find this stuff out?

No. But she can dress a moose.

ducTape: A governor isn't doing their job if they don't try to get as much money as possible into their state's economy.

Agreed, but when their running mate goes on a talk show and announces that they don't, there are, hmmmm, issues.

cameroncrazy1984: Doesn't Palin understand that we can find this stuff out?

I don't think she does. She's used to leaning in close, batting her eyes and getting her way. She has never needed to have critical thinking skills and has never noticed her lack of them.

cameroncrazy1984: Shadowknight: Skleenar: From the link in the link:

Wow... That's just completely AWESOME. Seriously. How about Obama's camp start yelling about THIS from the rooftops?

Given his new style of campaigning, I think he will. This is just too good to pass up. Doesn't Palin understand that we can find this stuff out?

I don't think they care. The people they need to convince are usually idiots that won't look crap up anyway.

quickdraw: cameroncrazy1984: Doesn't Palin understand that we can find this stuff out?

I don't think she does. She's used to leaning in close, batting her eyes and getting her way. She has never needed to have critical thinking skills and has never noticed her lack of them.

Indeed. Her campaign style reflects that she is treating this like one of her beauty contests.

quickdraw: cameroncrazy1984: Doesn't Palin understand that we can find this stuff out?

I don't think she does. She's used to leaning in close, batting her eyes and getting her way. She has never needed to have critical thinking skills and has never noticed her lack of them.

also, she's now being coached/controlled by the republican campaign. critical thinking isn't even an option

Megain: critical thinking isn't even an option

True - they don't want her to start thinking for herself. That's not what they hired her for.

Stock standard media manipulation.

SOP for politics.

Say it first, there will always be people who will believe it after it is debunked.

Why?

Because people are stupid.

And politicians have a vested interest in keeping them stupid.

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

been getting a lot of use out of this pic lately...

one month ago: "Who in the fark is Sarah Palin?"

Today: "Sarah Palin is the savior of the Republican Party"


the bill of goods you've been sold...let me show you it

in a recent debate with Jesus, Sarah Palin claimed she helped create Earth and knew God better than Jesus on a personal level and was there when God created oil for the US to use.