Hugh Hewitt: Obama’s oil production protest fails fact-checking test
- "So any notion that my administration has shut down oil production might make for a good
In May of 2010, Obama’s secretary of the interior, Ken Salazar, issued a six-month moratorium order for drilling on the outer continental shelf. When the courts struck down that illegal order, Team Obama switched to a slow-roll strategy, demanding new permits for exploration, and accomplished the same thing as a moratorium.
Jonathan Tilove, the New Orleans’ Times-Picayune’s Washington correspondent, set a standard that few met national reporters met when he collected the statements of Louisiana legislators in response to the president’s whopper:
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