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Huff Post Repost: The Tortured "Torts" of Sarah Palin and Oil

By Joe Consumer

Last week, the right-wing, corporate-backed Pacific Research Institute, well-known tobacco industry apologist, produced a dense yet nutty "statistical" analysis of state tort systems (bottom line: the fewer cases against corporate wrongdoers, the better). Now, we've seen these kinds of fabricated "rankings" before and they're usually a real snooze-fest, although with occasionally irresistible nuggets. For example, this one praised Louisiana with an improved tort "ranking" in part because so many homes were "rendered uninhabitable" by Katrina that hardly anyone lived there. Imagine how thrilled they're going to be now!

But this one caught our attention for another reason. The forward was "written by" Sarah Palin. I guess if you're part of the "tort reform" movement, which is still out there calling for liability limits on BP's corporate recklessness, a scholarly endorsement from Sarah Palin is where you'd go.

Thinking conservatives were not pleased, like blogger Andrew Sullivan who reprinted this reader comment:

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Full post as published by ThePopTort on June 06, 2010 (boomark / email).