McClatchy News Services reports:

Cheney on Wednesday told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that “oil is being drilled right now 60 miles off the coast of Florida.”

“We’re not doing it. The Chinese are in cooperation with the Cuban government.”

”Even the communists have figured out that a good answer to high prices is more supply,” he added. “Yet Congress has said … ‘no’ to drilling off Florida.”

The claim was immediately repudiated by U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla., an independent congressional report, industry experts and other observers, who said there is zero evidence that China is drilling in Cuban waters.

China doesn’t even hold a lease to drill offshore…

With both parties squabbling over what to do about rising gasoline prices, Democrats had seized on the remarks to bash the GOP, accusing it of spreading the Cuba-China rumor as a “scare tactic” to force Congress to lift a ban that prevents drilling along the Outer Continental Shelf and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Same old scare tactics Darth Cheney and his his oil buddies used to launch the Iraq war and drive up the price of oil 600% since 2002.

Well, it’s been two weeks since The NY Times broke the story of the Pentagon’s psy ops, perception management campaign created to sell the Iraq War to the American public by 75 former military officers– reverse embeds, if you will.

Thus far, not a single television network or cable news company has bothered to respond to the charges, despite a question posed to the White House Press Secretary Dana Perino about it last week; a Pentagon statement that it was “temporarily” suspending the program; and a letter by 38 congressmen demanding a formal investigation of what is clearly a violation of US law– the Pentagon’s propagandizing of the American public, which has been illegal since the 1920s.

The only MSM TV report was on PBS’ McNeil Leher program featuring a debate between prwatch.org founder, John Stauber, author of Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in In Bush’s War on Iraq (2003), and former ABC Pentagon correspondent, Robert Zelnick, which can be seen here. Though PBS invited reps from all the tv networks involved, as well as the Pentagon, they all passed.

Funny that. Further coverage of the scandal can be found here.

UPDATED. . .

McCain “Family Recipes” Lifted from the Bush Administration

The MSM mouse circus has cooked up another diversionary dish ‘o shit this week, the main entrée being a few purloined recipes from the Food Chanel being tossed off as “family recipes” of the McCain family, (as if McCain could find her way to any one of her own EIGHT kitchens, let alone prepare a meal in one of them.)

I say “diversionary,” because it’s just ludicrous the MSM mice could miss old Johnny’s blatant rip-off of Bush’s Iraq War BBQ recipe. They’re the same in every way, and for the press to be raking Cindy over the coals for her petty theft and give her old geezer a pass is total hypocrisy. (I know; what’s new.)

Bush’s Iraq War Barbecue Recipe is identical to John McCains:

• Preheat the military industrial complex. Select a raw third-world country; make sure it’s well-marbled and has plenty of oil. Attack the infrastructure by placing over high heat, shaking constantly, for 3 to 5 hundred days. When the volume of rubble reaches a nice crumb consistency, remove from heat and set aside.
• Drain out as much of the oil as possible.
• Heat the remaining oil over high heat; when the oil is hot, return the country to a boil and pour in as many of the undesirable collateral carbon components as you can, until they are dark brown and crispy; you may occasionally hear cries for mercy coming out of the mixture; pay no attention, it just prolongs the process.
• Cook until a crust forms; scrape it up, and repeat the process until all components are consumed, or for 50 or 100 years, whichever comes first.
• If militias should form on the crust, sprinkle liberally with American currency until they are thoroughly saturated and/or mollified.
• Remember, this is an expensive and time consuming recipe for protracted war; be willing to shed lots and lots of blood and be prepared to stay in the kitchen for as long as it takes.

Oh yeah—I almost forgot— enjoy!

UPDATE:

David Weiner at HUFF PO has a clip of Cindy McCain on that bastion of blablablabaloney, THE VIEW. . . We think it was a damned good recipe for Damage Control. Here it is:

• Take every incident of stolen recipes planted earlier in other publications previous to the website debacle, and simply ignore them.

• Then wrap the entire website debacle in ignorance— “I don’t know how it happened.”

• Sprinkle a little silly humor over the fall-guy/gal— send’em to “Betty Crocker (a fictitious woman, BTW) Boot Camp”??
Boot camp is where you get berated and cowed for 18 weeks so you can learn to kill human beings without hesitation and take orders like a robot. Just what every political campaign needs: militant killer robots.

• Then fold this slimy mess into a whole other project— “I’m writing a book!” (Yeah, right — write.)
. . .where it can be deflected, absorbed, and disappear as a two line account of a mistake by an “intern,” who must forever remain nameless, because, well, it’s just another lie.

You can bet your momma’s secret cookie recipe “her book” will not be about how Cindy McCain spends time in the kitchen preparing favorite family recipes.

For weeks on end, Senator John McCain, the valiant warrior/hero of our last interminable war, has borne the torturous brunt of the MSM’s obsession with his plans for continuing the Iraq War indefinitely, our worsening economic catastrophuck, and his recent spate of “senior moments,” which they insinuate reveals his funda-mental inability to understand the dynamics of the Middle East.

The senior senator from Arizona recently returned from Iraq and Israel, where, on a day that saw at least sixty-one Iraqis relinquish the freedoms of their new-found democracy for cozy coffins, also witnessed McCain being mercilessly harangued by a press core that trained observers thought more closely resembled the Spanish Inquisition than a bunch of talking point pussies. (See Video)

John McCain suffers a brutal grilling by agents of the MSM.

Just how long the seventy-one year old McCain will be subjected to the “comfy chair” of media intimidation is anyone’s guess. There is wide-spread speculation that such harsh interrogation techniques by the press are a direct result of the government’s own relaxed attitude towards increasingly harsh and inhumane interrogation of anyone it suspects of, well, anything.