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The Washington Post admits it lies for political purposes.
Topic Started: Mar 23 2014, 12:31 AM (373 Views)
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The Washington Post Responds To Me, and I Reply to the Post

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 that Canadian National Resources, Ltd., for example, leases more acreage than Koch......


The Post’s response attempted to explain “Why we wrote about the Koch Industries [sic] and its leases in Canada’s oil sands.” Good question! What’s the answer?

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.

So in the Post’s view, it is acceptable to publish articles that are both literally false (Koch is the largest tar sands leaseholder) and massively misleading (the Keystone Pipeline is all about Koch Industries), if by doing so the paper can “stir and inflame public debate in this election year?”........

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Libs will do anything to keep in power.

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They don't have to admit anything, they are correct.

Go to the government of Alberta website at https://gis.energy.gov.ab.ca/Geoview/Viewer.aspx?Viewer=StandalonePNGPublicSLExt

1. Click on Maps & Data Sources
2. Click on Simple Query.
3. Select from the Query Layer drop down menu ‘Oil Sands Agreement’.
4. Select from the Agreement drop down menu ‘Designated Representative’.
5. Type in the blank box ‘Koch Oil Sands Operating ULC’.
6. Click on ‘Run’.
7. Click on “Select All” to make visible Koch acreage.

They moral is, don't believe Powerline, they lie.
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No, they don't lie. They already did what you suggested.

Have a look and read: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Fire_And_Ice/topic/5421093/1/
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You did not look at the government of Alberta report did you?
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You didn't read my link did you. LOL

This map shows Koch’s leaseholds, which are tan colored.

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This map shows the leaseholds of Canadian Natural Resources, Ltd., which are tan colored and which are obviously much more extensive.

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As I said, the Washington Post admits it lies for political purposes but PowerLine did not.

Edited by Berton, Mar 23 2014, 04:08 AM.
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You are correct, koch are the largest foreign lease holders. See unlike you, I am man enough to admit when I am mistaken.
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Since the word foreign was not used:

"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."

I see you are admitting that the Koch's are not the biggest lease holders and The Washington Post admits it lies for political purposes and that you are wrong when saying PowerLine lies.

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Yes i said you appear to be correct. Unlike you I have no ego or control freak issues. If i discover I am mistaken I admit it. Ive been wrong before, I will be wrong again. It's no big deal to me.
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Really, how many posts did it take for you to admit it. That the very left wing Washington Post lies for political purposes? Instead you tried to take the subject off on a different course which failed because of your lack of knowledge.

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I guess it really bothers you that some of us on this forum are mature enough to admit when we are wrong. Oh well that is your issue, not mine.
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