The following was provided by Tom Barrett, Editior@ConservativeTruth.org:

At a press conference early in his Presidency, George W. Bush was asked a question about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). As the President began laying out his proposal for tapping the vast oil reserves there, CNN immediately went to a split-screen, running file footage of pristine Alaskan wilderness, filled with peaceful, happy, gamboling caribou. When Bush uttered the word ‘drilling,’ you could just about see the snow-capped mountains shudder and the woodland creatures’ eyes fill with tears.”

The problem is that the footage CNN showed was from hundreds of miles away - and CNN knew it! This was a deliberate attempt to deceive the public into believing that Big Bad Bush wanted to ruin the environment. In truth, the one-tenth of one percent of ANWR where the president proposes to produce billions of barrels of vital oil is actually frozen tundra. If CNN had shown footage of the actual area where the drilling would take place, viewers would have said, “What a perfect place to drill. Nothing could live there.”

And indeed, nothing does live there. No caribou. No wide-eyed deer. No Bambi. ANWR is desolate tundra. It is barren, frozen mud and rocks. In the winter, when temperatures drop to 70 degrees below zero, it is totally dark for over two months. No self-respecting caribou would want to hang out there. In fact, in other coastal areas of Alaska where drilling has been allowed, the caribou snuggle up to the production areas because of the heat generated by the equipment. During the House debate on ANWR drilling, Alaska Representative Don Young denounced House Democrats for lying about the beautiful wilderness that they claimed would be destroyed. “How dare you stand up here and talk about something you have never seen! Shame on you.”

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