Mary Matalin repeats lie about China drilling off the coast of Cuba.
By on Jun 16th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Mary Matalin repeats lie about China drilling off the coast of Cuba.
Appearing on the Situation Room today, conservative pundit Mary Matalin insisted on opening more U.S. land, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, to oil drilling, claiming that the U.S. is “the only nation” impeding efforts at more drilling. She repeated the conservatives’ current favorite lie: that China is drilling near Cuba, just off the coast of Florida — even though the lie has been thoroughly debunked and Vice President Cheney himself has admitted the story was false. Watch it:
Last week, Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) was so furious at his party’s false statements about drilling that he took to the Senate floor to decry the “fabricated China/Cuba connection” that he said “has no merit.”
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She said Montana and North Dakota has three times as much oil as Saudi Arabia.......
June 16th, 2008 at 9:09 pmLOL
June 16th, 2008 at 9:09 pmThis woman could tell me it was sunny and 75 degrees and I'm packing an umbrella and a parka. She is a paid pathological liar.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:10 pmShe and McShrub are sharing the same Google.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:11 pmHer steady stream of falsehoods is stunning... why is she even allowed airtime?
June 16th, 2008 at 9:11 pmDo we have to see her again?
June 16th, 2008 at 9:12 pmShe must be paid well to lie like she does.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:19 pmHey Mary, how's your first choice, Mittens, working out for you?
June 16th, 2008 at 9:24 pmCorporate Noisome Noise (CNN) keeps on enabling Bush treason, Cheney lies and Mary M's endless BS. CNN is refusing to investigate the 2000 stolen election, monkey business on 9-9 and 9-10, the electronic theft of the 2004 election, and the hundreds of Bush lies, Cheney lies and Rumsfeld lies about the illegal criminal occupation of Iraq.
Now CNN is totally quiet about unregulated oil futures trading, which is enabling many millions of dollars being ripped from American drivers each day by banks, hedge funds, pension funds and speculators. Google "oil futures speculation" and find out for yourself.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:25 pmcue rogerse with his usa-today cut and paste about how they haven't done it but they could do it drivel.
(sometimes i think rogerse is cindy mccain with all that cut 'n pasting)
:)
June 16th, 2008 at 9:25 pmMary FLASH, THE SKY IS FALLING!....c.little
June 16th, 2008 at 9:31 pmGuess she missed the memo about the last memo's talking points.
This stuff just writes itself right onto the Daily Show/Colbert Report
June 16th, 2008 at 9:32 pmHilarious.
Matalin is a paid stooge which is bad enough,but shouldn't the headline be "Blitzer allows right wing tool to lie about China?"
June 16th, 2008 at 9:34 pmI'm not sure which is worse,just sure it's business as usual at CNN.
Maybe the oil corps like the supply-to-demand relationship to be exactly like it currently is. Maybe they are doing very, very, very well under the status quo and all the talk is B.S.
Don't mean to be too catty, but has she had botox?
June 16th, 2008 at 9:37 pmBlitzer always allows the right to say black is white.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:38 pmNow I know why James Carville married her.
He gets a good nights sleep with a brainless wife next to him.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:47 pmLast week, Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) was so furious at his party’s false statements about drilling that he took to the Senate floor to decry the “fabricated China/Cuba connection” that he said “has no merit.”
cool - so that is what senator's do - call out the lies of political pundits - what a job!!!! - but seriously,what DO they get paid for?
June 16th, 2008 at 9:56 pmNow she'e going to have to kill Wolf Blitzer for making her look like an idiot!
June 16th, 2008 at 10:07 pmjohnsom Says:
Hmmmm? I guess we might have to ponder over the question of “who” you are.
do you know how to "ponder"?
eh?
*
June 16th, 2008 at 10:29 pmjohnsom, noone is preventing the oil corps from building more refineries or drilling on the 68 million acres they have leased. They want the supply low. It makes the price of what they are selling high. They didn't like it when the price of oil was only $19 under Clinton. They are loving it when a barrel is $136 now. It makes their reserves worth $3 TRILLION.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:50 pmSaudi Arabia even said weeks ago that their was no point in drilling more oil because the US didn't have an more refinery capacity to produce the produce, johnsom. You bootlickers must be the most gullible bunch of panty waists ever lived. If they drill in pristine Anwar it will take 20 years to get that oil. But you want to believe that prices are high because we don't want to drill in this country. Maybe if Exxon had ever payed for the mess they made with the Valdez we'd trust them a little more. But 20 years later they haven't paid yet and are still fighting the case.
June 16th, 2008 at 10:54 pmOil from Anwar would last us from 3 months to two years, depending on how much is there.
June 16th, 2008 at 11:07 pmJohnsom, did you ever wonder why the price of gas stayed low for eight years under Clinton? I was paying 95 cents after every conservative said it would be $2.00 if Clinton got elected.
Not only do we have vehicles getting extremely low mpg, but they get a tax writeoff for the full price. Taxpayers have to pay about $30,000 every time someone buys a Hummer.
Johnson:
In 2006, drilling rigs were LEAVING the Gulf of Mexico because they could make more money overseas.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06186/703513-28.stm
June 16th, 2008 at 11:09 pmSomething is serious wrong with this woman and her husband (carvel.)
She had to know it was proved false. she was banking on people not knowing the truth.
repugs follow talking points blinding and pump up lies faithfully.
June 16th, 2008 at 11:31 pmShe repeated the conservatives’ current favorite lie: that China is drilling near Cuba, just off the coast of Florida — even though the lie has been thoroughly debunked and Vice President Cheney himself has admitted the story was false.
That's the problem with being a pack of lying scumbags, it's so hard to keep the stories straight.
http://progressiveworldreview.com
June 16th, 2008 at 11:33 pmAgree with earlier Vanthomas: Blitzer should be challenging her. It's her job to push propaganda.
June 16th, 2008 at 11:42 pmMary Matalin please stop. Feeding Americans such things is not patriotic nor is it helpful to the dilemma we are facing on this little spaceship, Earth, we all share.
June 16th, 2008 at 11:47 pmHas it not occurred that war uses up our finite resources faster than we would if we were peaceful?
June 16th, 2008 at 11:49 pmGlad you asked.
No, you don't have it right.
June 17th, 2008 at 12:29 amMatlin KNOWS it's a LIE . . . but it works in the hinterlands and scares the shit out of the average FOX viewer. Seems the Florida Senator(an R) was so pissed he debunked it on the Senate Floor, too bad Wolf doesn't FOLLOW the news as well as he reads it . . . Someone PLEASE challenge these paid shills, if for nothing more than just the entertainment value of watching them go "O'Loofa" on air
June 17th, 2008 at 12:31 amLet me see if I have this right. So, you leftists don’t want the us to drill here in the US? -Johnsom
I am a moderate sir, and I would thank you to stop assuming. Cuba is not in the US, sir. And as for drilling in the US plenty of drilling is going on. ANWR is a puddle and has become a political football. Both sides, Democratic and Republican know its not worth the effort to drill in ANWR at this time. Its a soundbyte you can safely ignore.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:15 amJames Carville: Mary, have you been faithful to me?
Mary Matalin: Yes, James, just as sure as the Chinese are drilling for oil off the coast of Cuba, I have been faithful to you.
Welcome to Hell, JC.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:41 am.
Ms Matalin will be a fugative in due time...
LYING comes natural to her heart...
p.s.
Why is Carville still married to that perp, anyway?
Is she THAT good under the sheets, or what?
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June 17th, 2008 at 1:52 amShe is a national joke. Mary and chrome dome Carville are arguably the ugliest couple in the history of heterosexual marriage.
June 17th, 2008 at 1:57 amI loved watching Skeletor (Carville) squirm.
You do know that Matalin is Carvilles wife?
June 17th, 2008 at 2:10 amI would say, go fish, ya freakin ninnies, there are not now, or then, enough cooonuts to feed us. Thus offshore oilwells were born.
June 17th, 2008 at 2:17 amExcept, guess what? Them damn Chinese werent drilling offshore of Cuba!!
So, Johnsom, you think lying to the poor deserted folks on your little island would make things better? That a lie would cure their starvation?
June 17th, 2008 at 2:32 amLast October 1, 2007, I nominated James Carville and MaryMatalin for The Sad Couple of The Decade. Has any progress been made on this front yet?
June 17th, 2008 at 3:35 amUnlike your scenario johnsom, this is not a life or death situation...
June 17th, 2008 at 3:48 amI wonder if conservatism is just a system of myths and lies...
June 17th, 2008 at 3:50 amIf anyone believes that drilling in ANWR will bring back 95 cents a gallon gas, then you deserve to pay $10 per gallon...I hope you guys are not really that gullible...then again, if you believed that Iraqi drones would incinerate NYC...
June 17th, 2008 at 3:53 am"I wonder if conservatism is just a system of myths and lies…" I believe the facts about it speak for themselves - or at least the facts of this administration and neocons, who've proven to live on nothing but myths and lies.
June 17th, 2008 at 7:08 amjohnsom Says:
Remove the laws preventing drilling, and we’d be rolling in oil. Oil prices would immediately plunge by more than $50/barrel, and gas at the pump would be back in the $2 range within weeks.
Why would the oil companies do anything to reduce their profits? They really aren't into offering consumers a bargain; they're corporations that exist to maximize profits. What a ridiculous statement.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:11 amBy all means, let us give Mary Matalin a pass for lying on national TV, since her heart was in the right place. Is that how it goes, pee?
"" They democrats are blocking us from becoming independent of foreign oil???
Three months to two years' worth of oil at current useage will make us "independent" of foreign oil? Okay, great. Then what. Let's say Congress opens ANWAR to drilling tomorrow, pee. In ten years, they start pumping. We can tell Saudi Arabia to go Cheney themselves. Eighteen months later we're getting that "sucking" sound in the pump, and we go to the Saudis and say, uh, sorry, Mr. Saudi, we need to borrow a cup of oil. I know we told you to go Cheney yourselves, but that was just a friendly joke, y'know? Between friends.... you want how much? Three hundred dollars a barrel? Uh... okay. what choice do we have? The Republican Party kept fighting any efforts to develop alternative energy sources, they just kept pushing to open ANWAR, and now that's gone... Wait a minute... never mind, Sheik, we got OIL SHALE!
June 17th, 2008 at 8:44 amMary's just trying to convince herself that the lie is true. Everyone else moved on to better things. Americans want change and hope. In the story of Pandora's box, hope remained in the box. Now the boy Bush and his Chimnpltons want to take hope away from us. To he(l with them. I'm moving on.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:54 amI'll repeat myself, ad nauseum, that opening up ANWR is not about the minimal amount of oil there. It is its location on the Arctic coast. The ideal location for a military/energy/industry city once the ice melts sufficiently for year round shipping.
June 17th, 2008 at 8:55 amWhy do you think all the caribou migrate there to calve?
johnsom:
The biggest obstacle to recovery is WATER. One gallon of oil shale requires 1-3 gallons of water. Colorado is near the peak of its permits and it is possible oil company water rights could actually trump those of many cities. Extraction also requires significant energy, likely requiring new power plants.
I am sure this will all get worked out soon. Of course, the process for actually extracting oil from oil shale had not been proven and the DOE estimates the Green river could produce up to 2 mbpd - in 2020. This will likely only OFFSET the expected decline in production of existing oil fields.
June 17th, 2008 at 10:54 amThis is why the corporate media is experiencing a precipitous drop in relevancy.
June 17th, 2008 at 11:00 amIt is populated by WAY too many professional liars and propagandists.
Why waste time listening to false information when it only takes seconds to use "the Google".
These people are pre-net dinosausrs (like McCain)
It is a simple world for the sycophants isn't it? Never have to think for yourself, never question authority. And life is full of black and white choices like, if we dril in ANWAR gas will be too cheap to meter! Cheney told me so!
Like little ants, they get their directions from the queen and never question anything. Too bad these little piss ants vote.
In November we will fumigate the nest and squash their queen.
June 17th, 2008 at 11:32 amI called Schmidt's D.C. office and was transferred to someone named Justin in her Energy Policy dept. I asked him whether Congresswoman Schmidt was still claiming that China was drilling off Cuba. He asked wehther I was from Ohio and when I said NO, he hung up on me. I called back and asked to speak to Justin, but now he was out of the office, so I left a message for him that he is an unprofessional little snot.
http://thelieshavenotimproved.blogspot.com/
June 17th, 2008 at 2:31 pm