Truespeak

Last week I explored the connection between the White House, Phillip Cooney, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the American Enterprise Institute, and ExxonMobil.

To summarize, Exxon Mobil pressured the White House to withdraw from the Kyoto Treaty on global warming. Exxon Mobil's CEO is on the Board of Directors at the AEI who's Fellows include Bate, Greve, and Schwartz who are also on staff at Exxon Mobil-funded CEI whom Phillip A. Cooney contacted for help in discrediting an EPA study on global climate change. Cooney then went on to alter subsequent governmental climate change documents to downplay the significance of global warming. Everybody get that? No global warming equals no mandatory emissions controls which equals no extra financial burdens for the oil industry which equals bigger revenues. I think it's clear where this administration's loyalties lie. The world can go to hell as long as "big bidness" can continue to make money.

Ahhh...Altering documents. The timeless art of deception. But back to the topic at hand.

So imagine my surprise when I came across this article today.

A former White House official and one-time oil industry lobbyist whose editing of government reports on climate change prompted criticism from environmentalists will join Exxon Mobil Corp., the oil company said Tuesday.

The White House announced over the weekend that Philip Cooney, chief of staff of its Council on Environmental Quality, had resigned, calling it a long-planned departure. He had been head of the climate program at the American Petroleum Institute, the trade group for large oil companies.

Cooney will join Exxon Mobil in the fall, company spokesman Russ Roberts told The Associated Press by telephone from the company's headquarters in Irving, Texas. He declined to described Cooney's job.

Well, whaddya' know? It just gets better and better. Cooney comes under fire for altering documents for the White House so Bush buddy ExxonMobil says, "Come on in, the water's oil's fine." Looks to me as though ExxonMobil is rewarding Cooney for a job well done.

I don't know about you, but this is all just a little too coincidental for me.