Sarah Palin On Oil Spill: Send In Dutch Dike Builders (VIDEO)

Sarah Palin shared her frustration with the Obama Administration's handling of the ongoing environmental catastrophe in the Gulf with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News Tuesday night, and slammed the White House for not looking further afield for help.

"What the federal government should have done is accept the assistance of foreign countries, of entrepreneurial Americans who have had solution that they wanted presented. They can't even get a phone call returned, Bill," Palin said, shaking her head.

"Who?" O'Reilly pressed.

"The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills. They offered to help, and yet no, they too -- with the proverbial can't even get a phone call back. That is what the Norwegians are telling us and the Dutch are telling us," Palin explained. "And then the entrepreneurial Americans. The company in Maine that has the boom and the absorbents. Those companies that are waiting for the Obama Administration eight weeks later for the regulators to come in and say 'okay, we'll purchase from you now, we'll do all that we can.' That's where some of the frustration is."

Of course, as the Washington Post reported earlier this week, the White House actually accepted Dutch and Norwegian aid on the oil spill cleanup effort back last month -- though not in the form of dike builders.

In late May, the administration accepted Mexico's offer of two skimmers and 13,779 feet of boom; a Dutch offer of three sets of Koseq sweeping arms, which attach to the sides of ships and gather oil; and eight skimming systems offered by Norway.

Earlier in the interview, Palin also blasted the Obama administration for allegedly using the current catastrophe to push a policy agenda.

"What his top priority is, Bill, is cap-and-tax," Palin said. "It is using this crisis, not letting it go to waste, but to use this crisis to increase the cost of energy. And that is going to stall any kind of economic recovery that we have."

WATCH the whole interview, "Dutch" comments start at five minutes:

Comments

[Maezeppa]

10:05 AM on 07/02/2010

Does this dimwit know or care that it would take more than a decade to dike the affected areas of the coastline?

[SuperRyan]

02:21 AM on 06/30/2010

It's almost like all of her "facts" and "ideas" come from childrens stories, and ever since then, she has tried to hone her skills on hiding the true fact that she knows nothing.

[LastTexasRose]

03:02 PM on 06/26/2010

New from M attel! Talking Caribo Barbie, pull the string and she spews out nonsense phrases!

[OregonGary]

08:25 PM on 06/22/2010

This woman is an ID10T

[phylosopher]

06:22 PM on 06/22/2010

SO the the headline of this article should have been "Sarah Palin Lies BIG and Blatantly AGAIN" then again, I guess that isn't news - you know an everyday occurrence.

[Rashaverak]

05:15 PM on 06/20/2010

Palindromes: statements that make absolutely no sense whatever, regardless of whether one reads or hears them spoken forward or backward.

Synonyms: word salad; verbal chain collision

[Peji]

04:36 PM on 06/20/2010

let me get this straight:
According to Palin, "The Government" should fix this oil leak...the same government that is "too big" and should be shut down according to these two talking heads. The government is US. If the government pays, it is the US tax payers! She wants us to fix this leak instead of "Getting in the way of business." BP is not a business when they break something, but is when we they make money...go figure.

Also, I want to meet this guy, "the Norwegian" who has offered to help and can't get a 'call back'.

[KickstandCat]

02:29 AM on 06/20/2010

I wonder how Sarah remains viable. She's so stupid that I can't believe she knows enough to breathe.

[snove77]

05:50 PM on 06/23/2010

Because her followers are even more stupid than she is, or else they wouldn't be following her. QED

[DocWylie]

05:02 PM on 06/19/2010

There are those who sincerely believe the GOP could do a better job of cleaning up the gulf spill.
After all nobody SUCKS like them.

[DocWylie]

04:45 PM on 06/19/2010

My daddy used to say you could stick a propeller on her nose and she'd make a pretty good manure spreader.

[KickstandCat]

02:26 AM on 06/20/2010

Love it!

[retromega]

04:07 PM on 06/19/2010

Isn't it amazing that a resident of the Matanuska Valley, one of the greatest displays of government handouts to private persons in the history of the Republic is lecturing the rest of us, who paid for their government checks, on the values of self reliance!

Of course it seems safe to say that she comes by this attitude honestly in that her father thinks he was entitled to every government check he ever cashed! That is even if it was just for improving the land given to him!

[TeriquaJones]

03:49 PM on 06/19/2010

Sara,
I'm not sure what a woman's sexual preference has to do with fixing oil leaks?
But if that is what you are selling, why not hire American Dikes?
Please go away! Ya know, Canada is sorta like bein in Alaska. I think you would like Canada, you can kill lots of stuff and getcha some of that nice baby seal fur.

Yes, it's a perfect plan, Palin for Canada. Go there girl!

[Emily Gilmour]

12:28 AM on 06/20/2010

no one in Canada wants her either.

[retromega]

03:47 PM on 06/19/2010

Don't forget that this rising star wants to send in Norwegian dike builders too! And to think that some people think she is an idiot! Don't they know about the Norwegian dike builders? Why even Bill O'Really seemed to know about them and what better representative of the truth is there than Bill!

And they claim that American education is lacking!

[Richard Greenman]

12:52 PM on 06/19/2010

Listen to her closely, She makes absolutely no sense, none. She speaks as though she's intelligent, when in reality she's a word mill, making absolutely NO SENSE.

[TeriquaJones]

03:52 PM on 06/19/2010

Yes, a word mill! That is a perfect to describe her.
Sara just spews out whatever comes to mind and hopes it is somehow relevant. Funny!!

[Chazmania]

02:03 AM on 06/19/2010

Miz Palin having her own page on the hufpo is sorta like rubbernecking at an accident..
you know its wrong but cant help yourself because you cant look away from the carnage...

[Christine Graziano Downing]

09:42 PM on 06/19/2010

Exactly! I'm hopelessly enthralled!