This is great. We now count three House Republicans who have continued to peddle the myth that China is working with Cuba to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico, even though Dick Cheney had already admitted it was bunk.
The latest: Virgil Goode, the Virginia Republican best known for denouncing the election of Rep. Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat, on the grounds that Ellison is a Muslim.
Goode faces a potentially tough challenge from Tom Periello, an international human rights worker who has been aggressively advertising on Christian radio and has also been able to raise a decent amount of money. So Goode's message to his base is clear: Vote for the Dems, and you're voting for China.
Goode appeared last week on the Joe Thomas radio show, a conservative talker based in Charlottesville, Virginia, and said the following:
"We are foolish, we are dragging the economy of the United States down while China is just chugging along, drilling any place it can. They're drilling off the coast of Cuba, close to Florida -- closer than the 200 miles, the 50-200 miles, that's on the outer continental shelf."
So, does Goode still think China is drilling for oil close to our shores, and if not will he offer a retraction? Goode's press secretary told us yesterday that he would be checking in with his boss to find out what the story is. We have not yet heard back.
Goode joins at least two other House Republicans, Sam Graves of Missouri and Jean Schmidt of Ohio, in pushing this story after its expiration date.
(Special thanks to TPM Reader MS.)
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