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<h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate change skeptic Horner sweeps BP CEO's meeting with Cheney under the rug</font></h1><div class="post-pub-info"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 15, 2010 7:21 pm ET — <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/201006150051#comments">6 Comments</a></font></div><div class="post-summary-newformat"><p class="post-summary-intro-newformat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Writing on Andrew Breitbart's Big Government blog, Chris Horner whitewashed the role BP executives played in Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force to attack Democrats over two meetings with BP officials. BP's CEO reportedly met with Cheney and his energy task force in 2001.</font></p><div class="post-video center"><div class="clear"><div class="post-full"><h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Horner falsely suggests BP's CEO did not meet with Bush White House</font></h2><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Horner: "4,700 days ... since the last time a BP CEO was in the Oval Office."</strong> Chris Horner, a climate change skeptic, wrote in a <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fbiggovernment.com%2Fchorner%2F2010%2F06%2F15%2Fbps-excellent-oval-office-adventure%2F" title="blocked::http://biggovernment.com/chorner/2010/06/15/bps-excellent-oval-office-adventure/">post</a> on BigGovernment.com: "So President Obama is <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fs%2Fafp%2F20100610%2Fpl_afp%2Fusoilenvironmentpollutionbpchairman" title="blocked::http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100610/pl_afp/usoilenvironmentpollutionbpchairman">meeting</a> in the White House tomorrow with BP's chairman. The focus of public discussion of this event has been on it taking until the 57th day or so since the Deepwater Horizon rig caught fire following a well explosion, precipitating the ongoing oil leak." Horner continued:</font></p><blockquote><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The more relevant figure is 4,700. If my quick calculation has it right, that's the number of days since the last time a BP CEO was in the Oval Office. On that day, August 4, 1997, then-CEO, (then-Sir) John Browne, joined by Ken Lay, met in the Oval with President Clinton and Vice President Gore.</font></blockquote><h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BP CEO participated in Cheney's energy task force, including a separate meeting with Cheney</font></h2><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>BP's CEO reportedly met with Cheney. </strong>A November 16, 2005, <em>Washington Post </em><a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2005%2F11%2F15%2FAR2005111501842.html" title="blocked::http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842.html">article</a> reported, "A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress." The article further reported, "Cheney had a separate meeting with John Browne, BP's chief executive, according to a person familiar with the task force's work."</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Other BP officials met with task force.</strong> The <em>Washington Post </em>article also <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F2005%2F11%2F15%2FAR2005111501842.html" title="blocked::http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842.html">reported</a> that based on records kept by the Secret Service, "[o]n March 22, staff members met with BP regional president Bob Malone, chief economist Peter Davies and company employees Graham Barr and Deb Beaubien." The BP representatives reportedly "met in the White House complex with the Cheney aides who were developing a national energy policy."</font></p><h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Horner is funded by the oil industry</font></h2><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">....</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div></div></div>