by Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON – Right-wing darling Sarah Palin, who championed offshore oil drilling in Alaska and then around the county, bashed “foreign” companies Wednesday as the culprits behind the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. In a message sent via Twitter on Wednesday to her 143,000 followers, she wrote: Gulf: learn from Alaska’s lesson w/foreign oil co’s: don’t naively trust- VERIFY. Livelihood affected by spill?Don’t sign away remedy rights [sic] The tweet appeared to be directed at British Petroleum, which leased the Deep Horizon oil platform that exploded April 20, opening a gusher of crude that now threatens the Gulf’s ecologically fragile coastline. Palin made no mention of Halliburton, the oil services giant once run by former vice president Dick Cheney, which also has been criticized because of its involvement in the construction of rig. Palin, who quit the Alaska governorship after serving less than half of one term, famously promoted the slogan “Drill, baby, drill!” that rallied supporters, while dismissing the possible environmental impacts of offshore drilling. Her detractors have now switched the line to “Spill, baby, spill!” “We’ve all been shocked and saddened by the tragic events in the Gulf of Mexico,” she wrote last week in a post to her 1.5 million “friends” on the social-networking site Facebook.

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