Cheney Mystified No One Believes "Accident" Story
Veep baffled at dubious reception.
Dick Cheney shoots someone, then hides it from the public for 36 hours. He refuses to talk to cops until the day after, and only then allows the story to surface via some local yokel with connections to the Galveston Gazette's Pet Obituaries department. And the press is being unfair by wondering aloud, "whence the weirdness?" ?
Why, oh why would we doubt a guy who managed to wangle five deferments to weasel
out of serving in Vietnam? Why, oh why would anyone doubt the C.E.O. of Halliburton claiming, with a straight face, the U.S. Government had
nothing to do with his wealth? Why, oh why would a sane person not believe a man who -- despite videotaped evidence to the contrary -- claimed he'd never met John Edwards prior to their 2004 VP debate? Why, oh why would we second-guess someone who continues to insist Iraq was actively involved in the attacks of 9-11?
