Sarah’s Socialist Snowmachine.
The world’s most famous snowmobile racer in the history of the world, former almost-one-term Alaskan First Dude Todd Palin has lots of sponsors. What company wouldn’t want to have their logo slapped on the side of the most famous piece of snow machinery on the planet? Mystik Lubricants sure does.
[From the Mystik Lubricant website]
Mystik is an exclusive engine oil sponsor for the 2010 Iron Dog Snowmobile Race and a sponsor of Team #22 Scott Davis and Todd Palin – past Iron Dog Champions. Davis Racing team which includes Scott Davis, Todd Palin, Regina Daniels, Cory Davis and Carly Davis accepted Mystik Lubricants’ sponsorship offer. The members of the team will be racing in ESPN X Games, the 2010 Iron Dog, Amsoil Duluth National, Potawatomi National, Western Nationals, Air Force National, Eastern Nationals, New England Nationals, Canadian Nationals, Hayward 300, Nielsen Enterprises Grand Finale, Arctic Man at Summit Lake, Valdez Mayors Cup and Alyeska Snocross/Freestyle Show.
But, it looks like the Palins may be padding their pockets from a surprising source.
It turns out that Mystik Lubricants is owned by… wait for it … Citgo. Yes, that same Citgo that’s owned by Venezuela. Socialist Venezuela. Socialist, Hugo Chavez lovin’, Venezuela.
Oops.
Guess they should have heeded the advice Sarah Palin gave to President Obama:
“Now is not the time to experiment with socialism!”
[OK, it's time for a Palin-free weekend.... Is it 5:00 yet??]
[Thanks to Mudflatter anon for the info I used in this piece]
[Also, please note that there is an embedded link in this story to Palingates who wrote about this previously. That link was embedded within hours of posting this piece. Thanks.]
It’s 5:00 somewhere!
*waving to fawnskin* wink wink
funny!!!!!
typical…. none of them care as long as there is more green in their wallet not on the earth….
Look at those lips! yuck
This is exhausting, even Sarah and Todd don’t even vet themselves.
Ok, is it just me but the name “Mystik Lubricants” does not bring up the image of engine oil.
If you are a race fan, Alaska fan, dog fan or just sick of this twit trying to plaster her face everywhere – please take five minutes to send an email or make a phone call to the Anchorage Iditarod Race Supervisor’s office:
Email:
Stan Hooley, Executive Director – shooley@iditarod.com
Joanne Potts, Race Director – jpotts@iditarod.com
Chas St. George, Public Relations – cstgeorge@iditarod.com
Anchorage Race Supervisor’s office: 907.248.6874
Thank you. Please flood their phones and email boxes, even if it’s just a two liner email or one minute phone statement. This Alaskan is very angry!
YES WE CAN!
I also too see where Sarah was inspired to get a large paneled vehicle wrapped with her iconic image – she was jealous of Todd’s blinged-out rig.
I can’t keep up. I am going to pretend it is an hour later and have a glass of wine.
Anyone care to join me? I will be happy to pour.
She’s obviously getting newscaster voice training. But the attempt to sound like a member of the Entertainment Tonite team clashes with her natural tendency to go all nasal, and the cadence changes are too abrupt.
I also wonder if there’s been any research on what exposure to extreme cold weath does to lip plumpers and other surgically implanted “enhancements”.
It seems her artifical parts are making her look older, not younger.
Does anyone need anymore proof that the Palin family is the biggest bunch of money grubbing media wh0res? They have sold themselves, their children, and grandchildren to anyone with a big enough checkbook.
Sarah and the Locusts will be hitting the Las Vegas strip clubs and the East Coast bar mitzvah circuit by summer.
Remember how she bragged in her book about refusing to shake Oliver Stone’s hand because she knew he was a supporter of Chavez?
Now we know it’s just because Oliver didn’t have money in it.
This could be part of the reason that Todd no longer works his old job on the slope.
yo, crowwoman
#8 jimzmum, yep I just cracked a cold one. My favorite, sierra nevada pale ale.
Good thing our beloved president isn’t as petty as mrs. palin. He’d be able to accuse her of palling around with both domestic and foreign terrorists. Or I guess to be accurate domestic terrorist as in tawd & foreign dictators as in hugo. This might be a story our Rachel might like to sink her teeth into. She’s been hitting them out of the park lately with her & her crew’s investigative reporting. A sad farewell to Bree, she had a good blog. I wish her the best.
;-(
I pulled a Sarah and refused to go up and shake hands with the new Mayor of Anchorage. It was petty and childish, but I’m a nobody and he didn’t miss it. Had someone introduced us, I’d be gracious about it. That’s what grownups with a modicum of responsibility does.
Sarah knew the Oliver Stone story would resound with her audience. Nevermind that he is a patriot and served his country. He stands up for those that are told to sit down and shut up.
Chavez’s energy assistance program has done more for Alaska’s Tribes in the last few years than Sarah’s done her whole married, pro-creatin life with a NINO and ad this State’s top Boss.
Energy Expert. Ohhh that preposterous resume cred offends me as much as her other pimped up skills.
Listening to Shannyn!
what the heck happened to that woman’s face? She’s starting to look like Jocelyn Wildenstern.
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign @6: Done!
jimzmum @8, thank you for your gracious hospitality.
It’s been a long week, but I earned my gold star for perfect attendance, I’m home, and it looks like a beautiful weekend ahead. I promised a pregnant friend I’d have a margarita…for her… and for me… I, also, too, have a pitcher ready to share. *raising glass* To The Weekend! Cheers!
(Hey, austintx, la cuerva asks you, do you know that cuervo = crow, eh?)
back to that copper nugget to work my way through today’s comments and links…
I Love this place, AKM. Toda raba. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
@ thatcrowwoman
Thank you from the bottom of my Alaskan heart! Raising my virtual margarita to you in honor of your deed!
Follow the Yellow Brick Rogue – Sarah & entourage remind me of a sitcom called ‘The Riches’ (styled as the R1¢hes in promotional material), an FX television series that ran from March 2007 to September 2008, starring Eddie Izzard and Minnie Driver. Everything about them was fake, including stolen identity.
The show was originally called ‘Low Life.’ How fitting.
14 & 20, you are quite welcome. Time for me to get ready for the company of Grandgirlies for the weekend! Making bread, sewing spring clothes, and lots of laughing and reading of very good books. Himself has projects lined up as well, so we will be busy!
More details on this story:
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/03/sarah-palins-newest-gig-making-mystik.html
Just wait till Liz “the Avenger” Cheney finds out!
windpond@22
no, no, no.
the riches had class in a vagabond sort of way.
and heart (with a lot of pathos to be sure).
and the viewer cared about them and their grifting ways.
and the whole family was giving it their all to make themselfs ligit.
and, and…
and, last but certainly not least…minnie driver is actually pretty.
Big Slick #9 – She’s also, too getting some kind of “presentation” training. When I saw this yesterday i wa struck right away by the way she moves her hands. They never stop. And they both do the exact same thing. Check the part where she first says Iditarod. She bends down a little and gives two thumbs up.
What?
She needs people to write her books, people to write her Facebook and Twitter stuff, people to teach her how to speak and act, and people to teach her how/what to think.
This is getting really tiresome.
such a media whore…never met a camera she didn’t love…also, too kids cut from the same bolt…lmbo
6 Martha Unalaska Yard Sign Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 2:10 PM
I sure don’t blame you one little bit!
Now there is the rumor that $arah is going to do a “reality” program….ABOUT …Alaska!!
Reality and Palin never belong in the same sentence………imagining how Queen Esther would portray Alaska is rather quite horrifying………..and then to have the rest of the world think it’s ……..shudder…….reality!
The should just use her for bait on the “Deadliest Catch”!
The “go Todd” Chavez pic is really funny………thanks AKM for that.
So S’error works for Saudi Royal Family who is biggest shareholder of News Corp (FOX) and the Dude works for Hugo Chevez. That’s being real Americans, as long as your evading the tax man also, too… there! You Betcha doggonit. Hey, anyone see Ricki pornstar, that low life?
You know, If I was getting all the help she’s getting -
“She needs people to write her books, people to write her Facebook and Twitter stuff, people to teach her how to speak and act, and people to teach her how/what to think.”
I could run for president, too. Also
and what the heck is a snowmachine doing in an Iditarod commercial?
So Missy Quittypants Hollywood has gone over to the dark side. First palling aruond with Chavez and now TV producers, what a whore she is, selling herself to any bidder. I personally think she has spread her legs a bit to far apart. =) OMG, did I just write that. lol I did I did.
As yes the weirdness of it all. Posing in front of the machine that help chew up the trail for the all the sled dogs.
A little Alaskan fact: there used to be snowgo trail breakers for the Iditarod. Often folks from the village communities. Also the revenue that the Iditarod brings to the villages is really, really welcome.
Then the Irondog started and now there are a few villages who post speed limit signs for Irondog racers. For safety sake. Also the Irondog race brings little revenue to the villages. My cousins can’t stand it when the Irondog racers show up, because they are only there for a few minutes. Although the village folks use snowmachines, the Irondog race really tears the trails up and brings little economy to the village.
As one living in rural Alaska I am and will always be thankful for the fuel assistace my elders take advantage of.
So, Toad gets money from a Socialist, and Palin gets her paycheck from Newscorp. Newscorp’s second largest shareholder is from Saudi Arabia Hmmmm. My, my, my.
I’m starting to think she is a foreign operative trying to destroy the America “we know and love”.
She doesn’t sound like a “real American” to me.
*(Prince Alwaleed bin Talal al-Saud of Saudi Arabia, through his Kingdom Holding Company, owns 7% of News Corp.’s shares, making Kingdom Holdings the second largest shareholder)
Hey Sarah!! That reality thingy just might work out for you like it did for Bobby and Whitney. Horrible!! One can hope cant one??!!
@31 I smell a bribe.
@Now there is the rumor that $arah is going to do a “reality” program….ABOUT …Alaska!!
ugh!
HLN was gushing all over this, this morning. “… wonderful opportunity for $P — Alaska n a t i v e …” wtf?
Yes zyggy yes. Crude but truthful. Sick but right on.
I sure many have thought the same.
Sarah pretends to be a serious candidate for president. She pretends to have ideas and values. She pretends to be a “real american” who is just like the regular people.
The media plays along. The politicians play along. We read her statements and her book. We read articles written about her and watch her appearances on TV. I think this is already a reality show.
@tallimat –”Then the Irondog started and now there are a few villages who post speed limit signs for Irondog racers. For safety sake. Also the Irondog race brings little revenue to the villages. My cousins can’t stand it when the Irondog racers show up, because they are only there for a few minutes. Although the village folks use snowmachines, the Irondog race really tears the trails up and brings little economy to the village.”
This means that Palin is palling around with………………..OMG!
SOCIALISTS!
sage–not by any definition known to mudpups is that woman an Alaskan native. She’s not Native Alaskan, and she sure as heck wasn’t born in this state either, meaning she’s not an Alaska native. URGH!
“sage–not by any definition known to mudpups is that woman an Alaskan native”
I know! h/t to Mudflats
I nearly threw my shoe through my TV! lol
sage–no kidding, but you needn’t kill the messenger (the TV)
Martha Unalaska Yard Sign, the subject line says “you can do better than that” and the letter reads:
“The former almost one term governor of Alaska is a pitiful spokesperson for the Iditarod, and sure got lots of publicity for that Venezuelan socialist owned MystikLubricants that sponsors the former almost one term first dude of Alaska’s snowmobile team.
Disgusting! Real dogs are strong and brave and loyal and do not quit. Your spokes-pitbull in lipstick is none of those things.
Please replace Mrs. Paylin’s ad with something more worthy of the noble dogs who are your very reason for existence.
Sincerely…”
If I get a reply, I’ll be “the first” (right, fawnskin?) to let you know. I’m not holding my breath, but I’ve finished the margarita for lil mama and am starting on the one for me.
OT, but I was out back loading my solar dryer (pegging out the wash on my clothesline) and noticed the first peach blossoms of the season! The blueberry buds are swollen and I bet we’ll see flowers this sunny weekend. Time to hang the hummingbird feeders, even though we may get a few more overnight lows near freezing.
I’m almost caught up, jimzmum.
Although by the time I hit submit, there may be oodles of new comments since I started pecking this out.
Mudflats, margaritas, and Happy’s broccoli-onion-swiss-cheddar-bacon quiche, (I don’t keep kosher) which will be out of the oven in half an hour or so…Lucky me.
If I’ve written it once, then I’ve written it 20 times… s’error is interested in just a couple of things:
1) attention
2) money
If one leads to the other, she’s happy. If there’s an online MBA diploma mill, she ought to sign on now cuz it’s fairly obvious that she’s developed (even if unintentionally) a business plan… one which revolves around people’s politics and political hopes; she apparently has figured out a way to separate foolish political neophytes from their hard-earned cash. Too bad for them.
Curiouser and curiouser
If Mark Burnett is courting both Palin & Martha Stewart for reality shows
he could just combine them and call it “Crooks & Liars”
ps: i know… i know
Martha could give her some tips on how not to annoy the bejeepers out of the IRS. …
I don’t know what the relative timing of the publication of this story on the two blogs was, but I would like to point out that it’s possible the two authors were both working the story independently but at the same time and happened to post at very different times depending on their time zones and when they were awake to post.
Sometimes it is confusing… Alaska Native or Native Alaskan… and which is which? … and what is “which”?
The First Peoples or Tribal people or Aleut/Indian/Inuit/Eskimo people referr to themselves as Alaska Native. So has the US Congress in quite a few bits of legislation.
Much different than say, stating “Oregon Native”, which means a person from Oregon as opposed to meaning a Indian from Oregon.
Sometimes it gets confusing. Any Alaska Native (Ak Tribal person) who has had to meet with Scarah, knows she can’t get it right. And her dad while teaching school often joked about it in front of Alaska Native parents of students her taught.
@ 49 thatcrowwoman
I think your letter was just great – you nailed it. I just called them, too and gave them an earful. I almost had to cringe when I heard hubby make his call – I thought I was intense, but he had me beat hands down! Don’t piss off a redhead (right AKM?).
Keep it coming, whoever has five minutes to strike a blow to the Twit, please email or call the Iditarod committee! It should be staffed over the weekend as well since the heating up for the race is on! Thank you!
I’m glad you clarified what type of lubricants Mystik made. We’ll just leave it at that.
After a ” Good Socialist ” gets off His/Her snowmachine… do they sit down for a nice glass of wine…? I guess they do… based on a story posted on E-Online
( Someone on Palingates had posted it )
E-Online has given birth ( congratulations are in order ) to ” SwagGate “… their words. The whole story is a nice smackdown and George Clooney is part of it.
About the wine…( Quote )”Turns out Palin wasn’t just interested in clothes and beauty products during her swag spree, but also asked that a box of Bota Box Wine be sent to her home in Alaska.”
{Hmmm… I hope underage children in the family don’t see it..?}
The story ends with this line…( about the retraction story )
“Of course! We’ll apologize about the same time Palin takes a break from sipping her gratis wine and writing avocado-green thank-you notes to the vendors who gifted her so luxuriously!
This woman doesn’t still plan to run for political office again—does she?”
http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_truth/b170433_sarah_palins_swaggate_sequel.html?sid=twitterfeed_topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=twitterfeed&utm_campaign=twitterfeed_topstories
I am beginning to think her plastic surgeon was a Democrat.
LOL! Mo Inkslinger! Spit out drink!
I say snowmobile instead of snow machine just to yank their chains because I know it makes them crazy…er!
MO Inkslinger, you made me snort! You could be on to something.
(((AKM)))
Gotta love it. Sarah the intellectually incurious, never look a grift horse in the mouth, steps in it again.
Hows getting that horsey piley stuff off your shoes going for yuh, Sarah?
Glad it made it to Huff Po. Sarah’s always good for a laugh mixed in with the serious politics. She’s such a commediane.
Bless her heart, she’s never gonna learn. If you don’t want to get shot at, keep your damn head down.
Since I don’t do much TV, does anybody know a link for good coverage of the Iditarod? I really is one of the most amazing sports events.
Maybe put in in the side bar while it’s going on. So we won’t miss the comment with the link?
I don’t see that AKM has mentioned this above…. yet.
This story is up on the Huffpo. Add a comment there as well.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/akmuckraker/the-palins-socialist-snow_b_488015.html
I guess I still don’t understand why a half-term governor is posing in front of a snow “machine” advertising a dog race?? If she’s going to be a poser, shouldn’t she be posing with a nice big handsome malamute or husky?
AKM, you take a weekend from all Palin because I am. It’s way past 5pm and time to forget the twit. Wine glass, here I come! Multiple refills required!
Cheers to Palingates, too! I forget to check often, too, but when I do I have to chuckle myself into fit over Regina’s propensity for finding the most excellent pictures to depict the demon spawn named Sarah.
has palin or anyone associated with her EVER done their homework?
enough said
palin habla espanol???
good work AKM
i wish it was illegal to be as stupid as her
but she would still get away with it somehow…ms teflon as it were
@ #59 Basheert, re: “We would want AKM to get credit if she did the initial footwork, as well.”
I dare say that without AKM, none of these blogs would exist. Just sayin’.
I have more to say on this, but it’s terse and snippity and some people from “outside” wouldn’t like it. (By outside, I mean non-Mudpuppy)
Thank you for your posts AKM. And thank you for staying out of the babygate saga. It’s refreshing to come here after swimming around in all that dirty mess. Oh, believe me, I love the speculation and innuendo and the deciphering of stuff… it’s what I DO. But I don’t want that here. It’s clean here (fairly p-bot free). And I appreciate that.
Don’t change a thing. Those who know you and have been with you lo these many many months know that you don’t steal material. You have no need.
OMG, I did not proofread my comment. I see many typos. Sorry AKM I did not mean to address you by “”him.” Just ignore my bad English. LOL
Guess I am tired, had a long week. Please edit and correct .
My apology
I just received a couple of copies of letters written to the Iditarod Committee and they are awesome! I won’t post them here due to anonymity stuff, but I will post my favorite lines from one of them, written by a dear friend from another Southeastern town now coined “Nowhere”:
“Sarah Palin is a quitter and her self-serving and egocentric behaviors are not representative of Alaskans or of the brave mushers that run the Iditarod. The serum would never had made it to Nome if someone like Sarah Palin had been given the job…”
@ Marnie 72
I can’t speak for everyone else, except a whole lot of friends and family both in Alaska and Outside, but I will be boycotting the Iditarod this year unless they take Sarah Palin’s asinine, bogus face from the official website. This coming from a race groupie, one who has volunteered and handled dogs for that race. I love the Iditarod almost more than all things Alaskan, but no way Jose this year will I support the association of the biggest loser and quitter of the year on our race website.
@AKM: Thank you.
45 InJuneau Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 4:29 PM
sage–not by any definition known to mudpups is that woman an Alaskan native. She’s not Native Alaskan, and she sure as heck wasn’t born in this state either, meaning she’s not an Alaska native. URGH!
61 tallimat Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 5:22 PM
Sometimes it is confusing… Alaska Native or Native Alaskan… and which is which? … and what is “which”?
The First Peoples or Tribal people or Aleut/Indian/Inuit/Eskimo people referr to themselves as Alaska Native. So has the US Congress in quite a few bits of legislation.
Much different than say, stating “Oregon Native”, which means a person from Oregon as opposed to meaning a Indian from Oregon. [snip]
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Oy!…yes, which is which? I do think the our Canadian friends have an excellent no-nonsense solution/clarification: First Nation. Indigenous Alaskans would be First Nation Alaskans, *non*indigenous peoples born in the state would be Native Alaskans, and all others would be Alaskans.
Of course, while solving the ‘problem’ of which is ‘native native’ and which is merely ‘native,’ it makes a grand confusion out of identifying those Alaskans who moved to the state umpteen-zillion ages ago and have made it their home ever since ~ it doesn’t ‘account’ for the resident who’s been there for 30+ years v. the newbie who’s been there for all of a year and a half.**
[I moved to GA 15 years ago and am still taken aback by the obits here; invariably they read something like this: "Thelma Lou was a native of Norcross but had made her home in Atlanta for the past 87 years." (Thelma Lou having passed away at the age of "88 years 2 months"!) It boggles my nind.]
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69 thatcrowwoman Says:
March 5th, 2010 at 6:30 PM
I say snowmobile instead of snow machine just to yank their chains because I know it makes them crazy…er! [snip]
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I always thought a “snow machine” made [artificial] snow…and that the snowmobile was a gas/electric-powered mode of transportation one used on the snow to get from place to place. I’m with you, tcw, I still call those things “snowmobiles”, too… I figure, the more we can drive the likes of SP crazy(er), the better.
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67 MO Inkslinger ~ A standing ovation to you for that one! It’s a keeper!
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AKM ~ ain’t it amazing that sometimes updates/corrections just don’t seem to penetrate? You do what you can, give credit where it’s due, and, short of taking out a full page ad in the ADN, that’s about all you can do. Alas and alack, even that might not penetrate… I’d not fret about it anymore…you shouldn’t either [so sayeth this old geezer.]
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A quick question @ all Pups: Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why there’s a black bag (or something) sitting prominently on the snowmobile with “Bristol” and “Tripp” written on it in white lettering? [at minute 0.06 of the video] beth.
**DISCLAIMER: I was born in AK but haven’t lived there for mumbledy-mumble years… I am a Sourdough, though, and right proud of it.
[sideways jaunt: The (actual) sourdough starter I use for my hotcakes of a Sunday morning and/or whenever the mood strikes me, is from my mother's 'jar'; she's been sourdoughing AK hotcakes with her starter ever since she first got it from her father, a good 10-years prior to my arrival mumbledy-mumble years ago, too and also. Sourdough hotcakes...now 'at's some mighty good eatin'!] b.
I don’t give a crap who posted what first in the small group of AK blogs that I read. Many of the blog entries overlap and most of the bloggers seem to be very supportive of each other. Why people are quibbling over this is beyond my understanding but if it continues, I am outta hee-yah. This has been a place lacking in the snipping among regulars and I’ve enjoyed it tremendously. But I’ll not stick around if ya alls are gonna start acting like those idiots over at the Mansour cesspool.
my 2 cents worth.
My two cents: It appears from reading the posts here that some people feel they were wronged by not getting (proper) credit for breaking a story. It is completely understandable that they would be upset by this because It would be wrong for someone to use someone else’s work without giving credit. But since Palin’s antics are a common topic of these blogs, it seems to me that is is very likely that they each developed this story independently.
We need the entire community of Alaskan bloggers and the great work they do to expose the fraud Sarah and keep us sane.
[adding: "Track" is also there too...starting at minute 0.27. Don't see the other three (or 5) names, though. Maybe Todd had the names written (so's he could remember them) on his Chavezmachine because he couldn't write them on his palm...seeing as how it'd be all glove-covered, and all, when he was out roaring around and tearing up the quiet? b.]
oh, yummy, beth…
i had sourdough hotcakes last week while in anchorage.
to die for.
Weighing in on all the questions about who broke what story – I believe that I would contact the authors directly before posting in the thread back and forth. Many times in past blog posts, readers have missed the AKM links (which are light grey) and keep goin’ round and ’round about it.
It’s great to have conscientious commenters, and I do appreciate the vigilance of many, but many questions would be answered by contacting the blog authors directly with questions of sources and/or authorship before speculating back and forth in the comments. It’s just the considerate thing to do.
Ripley: “I dare say that without AKM, none of these blogs would exist. Just sayin’.”
I don’t know about the “non-Alaskan” bloggers, but I’ve been lucky to have read the likes of AKM, Phil, Diva, Shannyn, Gryphen, and a few others who seem to KNOW their stories are for a bigger purpose than their own names or posts.
Anyone else notice this all became a “Me First” instead of “Hey, look at that hypocrite!” Why would anyone bother to research or write if it’s all about them?
Hello AKM and others here.
I am the anon that first commented on the Mystik sponsorship.
AKM described how this story got here correctly.
I’d like to apologize for any confusion or hard feelings caused by my comments, and what some may think was left out.
InJuneau at 5:13 P.M. was close when they said the following-
” I don’t know what the relative timing of the publication of this story on the two blogs was, but I would like to point out that it’s possible the two authors were both working the story independently but at the same time and happened to post at very different times depending on their time zones and when they were awake to post.”
Like so many other similar Alaska doings, just because it isn’t in the news or on the blogs DOES NOT mean that no one knows about it.
I’ve followed the snowmachine team since the nomination of Sarah in 2008.
There is serious money involved ( for average commonsense real American people anyway), and the questions concerning the financial disclosures of this have also been covered here and elsewhere.
There have been lots of pictures showing the equipment, machines and so on.
The coverage of the Iron Dog races is extensive.
I’ve known of the sponsorship by Mystik for a while. The minute I saw it I knew what it meant.
Citgo’s ownership of Mystik has been upsetting some users of Mystik products for years. See this commentary from July 2006 if you want- it even talks about the Alaska heating oil distribution program- but I don’t know if the facts are correct about that. To see the comment click this-
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=212890#Post212890
To see that entire thread then click this-
http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=212894
So this this Mystik sponsorship was just another fact-which I could have posted here or elsewhere- but I waited because I thought it would get better. It could have been disclosed by anyone else- I’m sure others knew about this in advance of the story breaking.
The real story here is that Sarah came through like I suspected she would- she made a commercial for the IDITAROD featuring the snowmachine with the Mystic logo clearly visible.
Todd sponsored by Mystik is one thing- Sarah PIMPING the product like she did in the commercial is what made it time to add some background info to her commercial pitch. (That is why this sponsorship was so valuable to Mystik- because of Sarah and her publicity that has in turn made Todd famous. Sarah returned the favor to Mystik with the Iditarod commercial.)
I visit this and other blogs like Palingates to see what is happening. I’ve been stopping by here since the day she was nominated in 2008.
AKM is one of a number of great blogs and sites about Alaska issues.
Each is different and that is ok.
Once the commercial got out then it was time to post.
In checking links to do my post I found the palingates post.
I thought about putting up a link to palingates, or a mention that a story was up there and decided that might get this information deleted. (I joined to post and my comments were held for moderation). The information was important, and I wanted it to be up here. Here a few reasons.
It was verified fact.
It is either a significant illustration of her hypocrisy, or it shows how she does not even know where the money is coming from- but she’s still selling anyway. It is one or the other.
If it was here at AKM it was probably headed to Huffington Post and into the regular media.
The story needed to be out as above DURING the IDITAROD- for the same reasons
for the same reason that Sarah made that commercial- maximum exposure.
Like I said before each of these blogs is different and that is OK people are free to go to where they want.
I hope this helped answer some questions.
Thanks to AKM for a great place to visit.
Good job, anon the mystery source! Excellent job!
91 anon, you are one media savvy person. I hope this story goes viral. She’s going to have some “spalin’” to do. She’s now Hugo’s spokesmodel.
thank you so very much, anon
that certainly explains things. you were right to give this story to akm because she is a respected poster at huffington. who better to get this out there.
Anon,
thank you for pointing out the connection was known here in Alaska. I talked to the Venezuelan ambassador last fall about Citgo’s contributions to Alaskans. (Ever wonder where the “Big 3″ are when it comes to contributing to AK villages? Citgo doesn’t even have a fuel station in AK.)
Now, grab the torches and pitchforks!
Viva Alaska!
Thanks for chiming in, anon. Hopefully this will settle any lingering questions. At the suggestion of Palingates, I am going to do some sweeping since this has all been settled. Thanks, AKM
AKM, you and the other AK related bloggers and commenting ‘flatters are just wonderful. Thank y’all for all the work that you do. It seems that it would be practically impossible that the multi-talented and prolific blogger (AKM) would even have time to read the other good bloggers–particularly during this most locust plagued season.
Thank you anon @ #91 for further clarification and thank you for the timeliness of the info provided for the body politc.
We appreciate the dedication of investigative journo-blogism happening here. Please continue to carry on until there is no longer a need to ‘call them out’ when the lying liars who lie continue to lie even when the lie should be obvious to all.
Perhaps we need to market Lie Detector glasses to make the truth jump out for the deluded demographic among us who not only reproduces but who votes. Also, too, therefore.
Oopsie alert?
…deluded demographic among us who not only REPRODUCE but who VOTE. Also, too, therefore.