{"id":522878,"date":"2010-04-10T12:47:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T16:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climateprogress.org\/?p=22807"},"modified":"2010-04-10T12:47:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T16:47:57","slug":"conservative-leader-sarah-%e2%80%98four-pinocchios%e2%80%99-palin-blames-%e2%80%98gore-gate%e2%80%99-for-%e2%80%9cthis-snake-oil-science-stuff-%e2%80%9d-ex-gov-still-proud-of-her-efforts-to-kill-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522878","title":{"rendered":"Conservative leader Sarah \u2018Four Pinocchios\u2019 Palin blames \u2018Gore-gate\u2019 for \u201cthis snake oil science stuff.\u201d – Ex-gov still proud of her efforts to kill off the polar bears"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has called Palin a conservative leader on energy issues.<\/a> She has also emerged as a conservative thought leader on climate science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference (SLRC) 2010 — \u201cthe most prominent Republican event outside of the Republican National Convention<\/a>,\u201d Palin launched into another anti-science diatribe.\u00a0 TP has the video:<\/p>\n

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PALIN: We should create a competitive climate for investment in renewables and alternatives, none of this snake oil science stuff that is based on this global warming, Gore-gate stuff that came down where there was revelation that the scientists, some of these scientists were playing political games<\/strong>. I sued the Feds over this, I sued the Feds over this as Governor for some bogus listing on the ESA, just about got run out of town by the environmentalists. But now we feel a little bit vindicated because we\u2019re realizing through Gore-gate that there was some snake oil science involved over the data collection there<\/strong> \u2026 We invented the Internet, unless that was just another Gore-gate thing too.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Palin is so practiced at repeating falsehoods \u2014 even in her supposed area of expertise (energy) \u2014 that during last year\u2019s presidential campaign, the Washington Post<\/em> itself gave her its highest (which is to say lowest) rating of \u201cFour Pinocchios\u201d for continuing to \u201cto peddle bogus [energy] statistics three days after the original error was pointed out by independent fact-checkers<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 Her remarks here contain multiple whoppers.<\/p>\n

Of course, Palin and her conservative allies have never supported creating a competitive climate for investment in renewable alternatives.\u00a0 Indeed, they have bitterly opposed it:<\/p>\n