Gene Lyons calls him "Deadeye Dick", too

The invaluable Gene Lyons weighs in on Dark Lord Cheney's little adventures shooting a guy in the face with a shotgun in Vice president shoots himself in the foot Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 02/22/06:

Cheney’s first action after getting back to the house, according to Armstrong, was to mix himself a cocktail. What on earth for? Every homicide cop I've ever known would wonder if the purpose wasn’t to mask evidence of alcohol already in the shooter's system.

Next, the sheriff’s deputy who showed up at the ranch in response to the ambulance call got turned away by the Secret Service, Matalin later alibied, on "national security" grounds. That’s preposterous.

Wouldn't Cheney want to clear things up ASAP ? Would you or I be given 14 hours to compose ourselves before talking to authorities after shooting somebody in the face? As an Armstrong Ranch guest in Kenedy County, Texas, population 441, maybe so, but almost nowhere else in the U. S., which is more to the point.

He also comes up with another appropriate label, which I'm going to steal right away: "Republican State TV, a. k. a. FOX News".

[I had to re-post this: Neil added the following comment on the original]


Nei's comment:

After all these years that the reptilian right have heaped scorn on Ted Kennedy, here's an example of very similar behavior from the right-wing. A privileged and powerful man makes a mistake, and is shielded from the law and public scrutiny till the next day.

Maybe there is more to this story than that, but I hope we learn something from this juxtaposition.

Neil | 02.23.06 - 8:53 am |

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