This is how Bill Frist lied on GoodMorningAmerica:

[DesEtoiles]

...

"Bill Frist, the lame duck Senate leader, is the latest to play the blame Bill game, seeking to turn back the clock to the '90s as a way to shift responsibility from today's governing party. But as we shall see in a moment, factual reality can make that game very difficult. On the Today show, Frist said we wouldn't be having gasoline problems today if President Clinton had decided 10 years ago to permit oil drilling in the Alaskan wildlife refuge. Frist told Katie Couric: 'We passed it last month in the United States Senate. It has overwhelming -- maybe you don't support it -- but it has overwhelming support. We passed it in the legislature back in 1996. President Clinton vetoed it. Unbelievable. Passed the House. Pass the Senate. And if President Clinton had not vetoed that, we would have more than a million barrels of oil coming here every single day. That's more oil than we import from Saudi Arabia right now. It's a matter supply and demand. Right now we would have increase supply if it had not been vetoed by President Clinton.'
...

"Anyway, Frist's problem was that he omitted a few important facts about price and supply:

"1. Two years ago, President Bush's federal Energy Department concluded that any price drop triggered by a larger domestic oil supply would be 'negligible.'

"2. And the U.S. Geological Service has concluded that, at the peak of production (probably 20 years after the refuge was even opened), the amount of extracted oil would satisfy roughly one to two percent of Americans' daily consumption."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html
Kurtz's Media Notes

[WCGreen]

1. First of all, "Katie" is not suppose to have a position....

Second, they need to have a researcher check out these outrageous statement, by both parties, and report ASAP that what the person said was wrong....

[gratuitous]

2. And, if Dr. Frist is so worried about oil out of Alaska

Why don't he and his Senate colleagues simply pass a law that says that every drop coming out the southern end of the Alaska Pipeline has to go to the domestic market? Currently, a very substantial percentage of that oil is being shipped to the Asian markets because China and Japan are better, more credit-worthy customers for the large oil companies.

Curiously, Frist doesn't utter a peep about that!

[DesEtoiles]

3. yep-too bad Katie not ready to resond to his expected talking

points

[endarkenment]

5. you are letting her off easy. nt.

[bscottsmith]

4. I can't keep up.....

with all their lame excuses. I thought supply was down because refineries could not keep up with demand, which raises the price. Or was it china, no India, no katina, maybe Iraq, and recently Iran but now we know.......... CLINTON.

[zbdent]

6. and if Katie Whoric would have been any kind of journalist (in the first

place), she would have confronted Frist with facts to smash down his lies . . .

[GOTV]

7. if Katie Couric would have been any kind of journalist...

... would she be on Good Morning America?

[JohnnyRingo]

8. These people just can't stand property owned by the people

Everything has to be accessed by the highest bidder. Public land just whizzes them off so bad they'll do anything to turn it over to big business.

Here's something else Frist leaves unmentioned:

There aren't any roads where they want to drill!
Guess who gets to build and maintain these "access roads" into ANWR.....The "property owner" will have to do it.
The same people who had to buid access roads for timber companies into our national forests.

That would be us.

While we're at it, why don't we spend our tax money to build the refineries and the gas stations too?

Then all Big Oil has to do is sit back and watch the money roll in.

[bumblebee1]

9. Damn,

Frist is taking a play out of the Sanscrotum playbook. He said the same thing on the Philadelphia Sunday evening news.