Sarah Palin suggested on Fox News yesterday that President Obama may have been slow to respond to the Gulf Coast oil spill because of his ties with Big Oil — and that the “mainstream media” is letting him get away with it.
“I think that there is perhaps a hesitancy to — I don’t really know how to put this, Chris, except to say that the oil companies who have so supported President Obama in his campaign and are supportive of him now — I don’t know why the question isn’t asked by the mainstream media and by others if there’s any connection with the contributions made to President Obama and his administration and the support by the oil companies to the administration.”
If there’s any connection there to President Obama taking so doggone long to get in there, to dive in there and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that we are seeing here in the Gulf of Mexico. Now if this was President Bush or if this were a Republican in office who hadn’t received as much support even as President Obama has from BP and other oil companies, you know the mainstream media would be all over his case.
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs struck back at Palin in a later appearance on Face The Nation.
“I’m almost sure that the oil companies don’t consider the Obama administration a huge ally,” he said. “We proposed a windfall profits tax when they jacked their oil prices up to charge more for gasoline.
“My suggestion to Sarah Palin would be to get slightly more informed as to what’s going on in and around oil drilling in this country.”
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