As a vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin called Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez a dictator and called for energy independence so America could be less reliant on someone like him. She said that Chavez wanted to use energy as a weapon against us.
Palin's anti-Venezuela views apparently don’t extend to her husband, whose snowmobile racing team was sponsored by a division of Citgo, the retail arm of Venezuela's state-owned oil and gas company.
Todd Palin's Iron Dog snowmobile team competed this year under a sponsorship from Mystik Lubricants, a subsidiary of Citgo.
A spokesman for Citgo confirmed that Mystik Lubricants is a Citgo brand, and not a separate company. A Palin adviser would not answer any sponsorship questions. The Palin team dropped out of this year's race early after suffering injuries and mechanical problems.
After the race ended, Sarah Palin went on to appear in a video spot for the Iditarod sled-dog race standing in front of a snowmobile bearing the Mystik logo.
Chavez has also been a critic of Palin's, dismissing her in 2008 as "a beauty queen that they've pulled out to be a figurehead."
Questions about Todd Palin's Iron Dog sponsor were first raised last week on Alaska blogs.
Watch Sarah in video spot with Chavez’s Venezuelan-state oil company sponsored snowmobile:
Do as I say, don't do as I do.
ReplyDeleteA great family that holds to its principles, What a joke!
Thats why the tea baggers love Sarah Palin, because she is shallow and nothing but all talk.
ReplyDeleteThe tea baggers just like hearing red meat slogans, they are too stupid or lazy to find out that their republican hero's don't do what they say.