Posted on 03/22/2014 9:03:43 PM PDT by Nachum
On Thursday, the Washington Post published an article by Steven Mufson and Juliet Eilperin titled “The biggest lease holder in Canada’s oil sands isn’t Exxon Mobil or Chevron. It’s the Koch brothers.” The article’s first paragraph included this claim:
The biggest lease holder in the northern Alberta oil sands is a subsidiary of Koch Industries, the privately-owned cornerstone of the fortune of conservative Koch brothers Charles and David.
The theme of the article was that the Keystone Pipeline is all about the Koch brothers; or, at least, that this is a plausible claim. The Post authors relied on a report by a far-left group called International Forum on Globalization that I debunked last October.
So Thursday evening, I wrote about the Post article here. I pointed out that Koch is not, in fact, the largest leaser of tar sands land; that Koch will not be a user of the pipeline if it is built; and that construction of the Keystone Pipeline would actually be harmful to Koch’s economic interests, which is why Koch has never taken a position on the pipeline’s construction. The Keystone Pipeline, in short, has nothing whatsoever to do with the Koch brothers.
My post garnered a great deal of attention, and Mufson and Eilperin undertook to respond to it here. It isn’t much of a response: they don’t deny the truth of anything I wrote, and they don’t try to sustain the proposition that Koch is even in favor of the pipeline, let alone the driving force behind it. They lamely suggest that if Koch leased 2 million acres, rather than 1.1 million as they reported on Thursday, then Koch might be the largest leaseholder. But they make no attempt to respond to the official Province of Alberta maps that I posted, which clearly show
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
John keeps nailing these SOBs. And they have no comeback.
Bravo Mr. Hinderaker.
American MSM journalist, horoscope reader, numerologist, sociologist, witch doctor = SAME
Excellent piece. Well worth the read.
Hinderaker rocks.
Great article. Except for being a lawyer, a resident of Minnesota, and an Ivy Leaguer, he's alright. I wonder if he would run for president.
I wish he’d run for Governor.
Powerline’s become one of the websites on my must-read list daily
Wow, powerful stuff!
“It’s not the evidence that’s important, it’s the seriousness of the charge.”
Once again, the left admits that the ends justify the means.
WOW, that was a factual and verbal a$$ whipping.
I was hoping after Jeff Bezos bought the post it would be a little more neutral instead of the leftwing hackathon that it is. He just dropped in my opinion. Hack on Washington Compost.
The Powerline article itself, and its tone, is strong evidence that issues surrounding the Koch brothers’ political and business interests will stir and inflame public debate in this election year. That’s why we wrote the piece. - WaPo
An open admission that they are liars and their purpose is agitprop.
J school Rats can’t walk & chew gum.
The meme is being planted, the facts be damned, and the Devil take the hindmost.
“Fake but Accurate” reporting.
Thanks, Nachum.
To his credit, Bezos recently brought The Volokh Conspiracy blog to the Washington Post. Since then, Eugene Volokh has been annoying the hell out of the Post's leftists.
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