How is it that someone, anyone, can think they can get away with a lie like this? When Hurricanes Katrina and Rita lashed the U.S. Gulf Coast with force 4 and 5 winds the whole world watched as no fewer than 124 offshore oil wells were compromised and yes, they did indeed spill oil. Yet, in the revisionist world of Nancy Pfotenhauer, senior energy advisor to Senator John McCain, not a drop was spilled.
Did she forget that the press covered this, one of the major news stories of 2005? Perhaps Ms. Pfotenhauer, who just happens to have been a lobbyist for a major polluter whose faulty oil pipelines were responsible for more than 300 oil spills in five states, has forgotten that there are still people out here in the real world who follow the news and knows she is lying.
Ms. Pfotenhauer was a lobbyist for Koch Industries, who was facing 97-indictments for a total of up to $352 million in fines for illegally releasing 91 metric tons of benzene, a known carcinogen, from its refinery in Corpus Christie, Texas, until Koch donated $800,000 to George W Bush’s presidential campaign. After he became president, GW’s Justice Department dropped 88 of the charges. Koch then pled guilty to falsifying documents and settled lawsuits for a fraction of that amount.
Given her connection to a corporation who thinks so little of the American public and the environment at large, it is no wonder she would not think twice about making such an outlandish claim.
In her capacity as lobbyists she is very well versed in how to color the truth in order to portray her client as desperately deserving of governmental favors. But now, she is in a different league. In her capacity as advisor to a presidential candidate (John McBush), she is in the public eye and even though the main stream media will allow her little faux pas to pass (because it is John McBush and not Barrack Obama) she needs to learn to keep her facts straight because those of us who actually pay attention will not let her get away with it. I am certain that given time her ability to lie will improve to the point that we will have to watch her even closer.
And with this particular presidential candidate she better quickly learn to distinguish between fact and fiction, because he can’t keep it all straight on his own. Aside from the fact that McCain can’t remember simple things like Czechoslovakia is no longer a country, or that he voted against coverage of birth control, or that he still confuses Shiite with Sunni Muslims, or that he can’t remember saying he would tear down the lower 9th ward in New Orleans after only three days, or that he claimed Al Qaeda has ties to Iran, etc, etc, it is no telling how Ms. P will be required to cover for his version of the truth. It is not a very good sign that even his own advisors cannot keep their facts straight. They all deserve each other and we all deserve a whole lot better from a president. Pay attention people. This guy wants to be our leader, if he can remember what he is running for.
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