Official White House Photo by Pete Souza

President Barack Obama listens during a meeting with residents at Carmandelle's Live Bait and Boiled Seafood in Grand Isle, La., June 4, 2010.

A new press release op-ed appeared Tuesday on Sarah Palin's Facebook page. In it, the former Alaska governor and social media imago criticizes President Obama's refusal to meet face-to-face with BP CEO Tony Hayward in order to speed up the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster response. The note's author also takes a shot at media outlets for not pressing the president to discuss "how CEO-to-CEO talks were progressing to remedy this tragedy" and uses the situation to attack Obama's leadership ability -- and tout Palin's executive experience -- at great length. President Obama previously said that he didn't think a meeting with Hayward would be productive, that the CEO would just "say all the right things." Obama continued, "I’m not interested in words. I’m interested in actions.” Palin's note encouraged him to meet with Hayward, "to verify what BP reports." Then there's the note's closer, which most reports on the Internet Wednesday have focused on. The note ends saying the president should call Alaska Department of Natural Resources Commissioner Tom Irwin or the department's lead on the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, Marty Rutherford, for advice on how to strong-arm oil and gas companies. And if he decides not to do that, he should, "what the heck," give Palin a call. Read the release, here.

Palin's note didn't mention how meeting with an embattled, stressed-out oil company CEO in the middle of an ongoing catastrophe would allow President Obama to "verify" anything BP has reported. Seemingly, it would just add another layer of dubious, self-serving or lawyered-up statements to verify. Regardless of whether having a face-to-face chat with Hayward would indeed be "Less talkin', More Kickin'," as the Facebook note's title puts it, this note is probably one of the most cogent to carry the former Alaska governor's name in the social media world (the "game-stream media").

In many places, the note fairly represents Palin's efforts to regulate the oil and gas industry on behalf of Alaskans, which was one of the key reasons her popularity soared as governor. However, it leaves out the fact (coincidence?) that after Palin began "playing hardball with Big Oil," the producers began scaling back their investment in the state.

It also bears mentioning that the Facebook note dramatically overstates Alaska's contribution to the United States' domestic supply of energy. One would expect an oil and gas expert, as Palin claims to be, to get the number right, but this isn't the first time she has inflated Alaska's role in the U.S. energy market. The falsehood (repeated in yesterday's note) that Alaska supplies 20 percent of the nation's domestic energy supply has been heard in her public statements since at least 2008. According to FactCheck.org, the U.S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) said in 2008 that Alaska supplied 3.5 percent of the total energy produced domestically in 2007, and only 2.4 percent of the energy consumed that year. Fact Check also found the 20 percent nonsense appears to have come from a misconstrued (and woefully out-of-date) average once located on the Alaska Resource Development Council's website. However, semantics are at play here. The EIA reported in 2008 that Alaska was responsible for 14.3 percent of the crude oil produced in the U.S. in 2007. But that's a far cry from 20 percent; "energy" is vastly different from crude oil, and production is distinct from consumption.