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CBS News reports today that Todd Palin’s Iron Dog snowmachine racing team is sponsored by Mystik Lubricants, a division of Venezuelan-owned oil company Citgo.

Alaskan blog Palingates, which broke the story on March 3, additionally serves up some compelling speculation on the mystery of why Sarah Palin was standing in front of a snowmachine in her TV commercial spot promoting the Iditarod, which is rather famously a dog-sledding event. Opportunistic product placement or spontaneous scene propping? You decide.

Beyond that, the jokes write themselves: The CBS story notes that Citgo has been the target of repeated Wingnut boycott initiatives. Palingates includes a video from the 2008 Primary where Sarah admits to a Venezuelan interviewer that she believes Hugo Chavez is a dictator. Chavez responded at the time by calling Sarah a confused “Beauty Queen.” Elsewhere, Salon split the difference by dubbing Sarah the “Hugo Chavez of Alaska.”

Optically, this is a bad look for the Palins. But perhaps embracing foreign socialist Enemy-of-America sponsors and cashing paychecks from dictators is just a “common sense solution” for energy self-sufficiency she hasn’t shared with us yet. 

Posted by StrangeAppar8us on 03/10/10 at 08:21 PM • Permalink

More snark-bait from Sarah’s FB page:

I was reading your book in bed last night, and I guess I nodded off. And I ended up dreaming that you and Todd came over to our house for dinner. In honor of your coming, I pulled out the moose tenderloin from the freezer, and you somehow knew this killer recipe, and volunteered to make it. So there you were in my kitchen cooking up the tenderloin, while Todd and I were in my office admiring the rack of the moose it came from.

StrangeAppar8us, please visit http://palingates.blogspot.com for the best and most thorough source for the many “gates” of Sarah Palin.

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Also from Palingates:

Sarah Palin described her experiences during her appearance on Saturday Night Live in 2008 in “Going Rogue” - an excerpt:

“During all this, the writers, the producers, and the campaign continued to hammer out the script. Josh Brolin, Mark Wahlberg, and the singer Adele were also on the show that night, as was director Oliver Stone, who made a cameo appearance. Unbelievably, he is a supporter of Communist dictator Hugo Chavez, who in a 2006 speech to the United Nations referred to the president of the United States as ‘the devil himself.’ I did not shake Stone’s hand.”
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Now isn’t that ironic, Granny Grifter won’t shake hands with Oliver Stone because he supports Hugo Chavez.  However, she will extend her hand to Chavez if there is money in it to line her pockets!  Sarah is the grift that keeps on grifting.

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