“I’m The Guy Who Pulled The Trigger”

by digby

ReddHedd’s doing the play by play of the Fox interview with Cheney. He keeps saying it was the worst day of his life. He’ll never foreget it, blah, blah, blah. Very touching, I’m sure.

In fact he was so upset that he went back to the ranch and sat down for dinner.

But he was very worried while he ate so that’s ok. In fact, he was so busy worrying and eating that he couldn’t even make some calls to DC to have his press office inform the public.

And then there’s this. Jesus, these people are unbelievable.

Krauthamer (from yesterday):

Cheney knew he would get a lot of heat for withholding this, and I think he did the manly thing. He decided, “I’ll take the heat, but I’m going to give my host and my friend, who just got shot, a half a day of reprieve.” Anyway, it’s a minor issue, and to make it into this — I mean, it was a zoo at the White House yesterday. I think the public had the right reaction. It was disproportionate and unseemly.

Well yes. Blow job and semen stains are one thing — the country has a right to know all the details of the president’s sex life. But when the vice president shoots an old man in the face and then covers it up for 24 hours, it’s nobody’s business but his own. All this attention is disproportionate and unseemly.

Update: ReddHedd says:

Hume says Cheney said he had a beer at lunch — that had been hours earlier — no one was drinking. Went back to ranch, took a break for a few hours, and then went back out hunting at 3 pm. Says it was out of his system by the time they went back out. Cheney told Hume he had BBQ and a beer a lunch. (That should be an interesting point of discussion.)

OH mygoodness. I’ve always heard that alcoholand guns do not mix. But certianly a man who had two DUI’s and had his driver’s license suspended — back in the days when you had to be really, really drunk to get popped — now admits to drinking on the day he shot an old man in the face. And he didn’t let law enforcement talk to him until the next day.

I know it’s unseemly to bring this up but shouldn’t there be at least a teeny-tiny little investigation about this now? People are mouldering in jail for decades for drinking and injuring people with guns.

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