I have been posting about T Boone Pickens a lot lately ... the old man with The Plan.I like the plan, at least it is something out there, an energy solution. You don't hear much about solutions. And yes, Pickens would profit substantially, not only in his wind farm in Texas, but he also owns a natural gas company Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (CLNE).
Mr. Pickens is a flaming republican also. I can put aside my political leanings for the energy crisis cause, but there is a chapter in Mr. Pickens' politcial activism that I find difficult to swallow.
Remember the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, guess who funded them? Yup .... T Boone Pickens. Ug, so now what?
I have no problem with profits, I am a small-business guy myself, but the mud slinging by the Swift Boats is something else. That whole election cycle was a mess, there needs to be free speech in the democratic marketplace, but there is also a need for accurate speech.
I like the Pickens energy plan, but now I am a little doubtful. Is this really a solution? Mr. Pickens has no problem, apparently with playing it fast and loose with the facts of a given situation, makes me wonder me wonder about the accuracy of his statements about his current plan. He says he's out of the politics, and the energy plan is his thing now, "that's absolutely nonpartisan."
I suppose time will tell, The Huffington Post is now gushing over him and Fox News is bashing him, a reversal from Mr. Pickens' Swift Boat days. T Boone would have a little more credibility in my book, if his $1Mil Swift Boat challenge was on the up and up.
"Unfortunately, key aspects of my offer of $1 million have not been accurately reported," Mr. Pickens wrote in a letter to the crewmen. "My offer, reiterated in a letter to Senator Kerry not long after the challenge was made, was to pay $1 million for information that would prove any of the ads – which I helped fund – inaccurate. In reviewing your material, none of the information you provide speaks specifically to the issues contained in the ads."
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"I guess now we know the 'T' in T. Boone doesn't stand for 'truth,' " said Del Sandusky, one of the crewmen [who served with John Kerry in Vietnam]. "I really hoped we could've taken him at his word. ... We won't rest until he admits the truth that he bankrolled a big lie."
Mosk, Matthew. "Once a Swift Boat Ad Funder, Now Giving Millions to Energy Ads." The Trial, Daily Diary of Campaign 2008. 21 July 2008. Washington Post. 25 Jul 2008 <http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/21/once_a_swift_boat_ad_funder_no.html>.
