Apparently Apple's highly-paid team of coverup artists are slipping a bit these days; perhaps the excitement over the Lone Gunmen getting their own spin-off has thrown them off their game or something. Sure, longtime conspiracy theorists like ourselves are well aware of the fact that Apple's hatching something big in the political arena, but we sure didn't expect to find references to that top-secret plan in an Associated Press article. Somebody needs to tighten up the lips surrounding this scheme, or the whole covert operation will collapse before its sinister gears grind into full motion.

Luckily, not too much appears to have been given away. The loose lips in question belong to Margita Thompson, a spokeswoman for the George W. Bush campaign in California. When talking to reporters about brother Jeb's visit to the west coast, she let slip that the Florida governor wasn't just there to raise Republican cash for his sibling with the Presidential aspirations; Jeb was also planning to conduct "official Florida business" with Apple Computer. While she thankfully gave no clarification what that official business was, we wish she'd covered up her slip with a quick-minded lie about a contract for purchasing Macs for public schools or something. As it stands, the whole world is left to wonder about just what that "official Florida business" might be.

And if you're waiting for us to tell you just what the nature of that business is, don't hold your breath. We don't plan on risking covert retaliation from Apple's goon squad by telling you one word about Apple's ongoing extortion racket. Imagine, thinking we'd tell you anything about Apple's secret threat to submerge Florida by manipulating the fault lines with seismic technology recently perfected in Apple's labs. Yeah, right. Like we'd say anything about last year's abundance of earthquake disasters being accidental side-effects of the testing of said technology. As if. And we sure couldn't tell you anything about Jeb Bush being coerced by Steve Jobs into being Apple's inside man on the Bush campaign, for the express purpose of pulling the strings if and when Dubya gets inaugurated. You think we'd reveal all that just for the sake of entertainment? We happen to value our lives, you know. So figure it out for yourselves. Excuse us, there's someone at the door...