A few quick thoughts on "Cheney's Chappaquiddick"
Posted by Jeff Goldstein
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Earlier today I touched very briefly on the left’s growing “Cheney was drunk!” meme—mostly as a way to distinguish their breathless, relentless, almost swarming interest in what was an unfortunate hunting accident (at a press conference today, spokesmen for the hospital housing Mr Whittington noted that the 78-year-old wanted to know what all the fuss was about) with their notable lack of interest in reports that ABC’s Nightline will be airing part of the so-called “Saddam recordings," which suggest that Hussein believed Iraq had chemical and biological weapons capabilities.
But (and here’s the crazy part) it turns out some of these people were actually serious about the charges (as Mark Coffey continues to document), and the list just keeps growing—from Alan Dershowitz and RJ Eskow to The Raw Story , MSNBC, and the Nation.
In fact, MSNBC pundit and West Wing producer/writer Lawrence O’Donnell (who seems to be the genesis of this original floated “question")—along with lefty firebrand Jane Hamsher—continue to push this meme with so much heat (a great exchange between O’Donnell and Hugh Hewitt can be found here) that one begins to fear they might spontaneously combust, or at the very least, singe a tuft of Harry Shearer’s ear hair.
O’Donnell even went so far as to say, on Hewitt’s radio program, that the secret service and Karl Rove (along with Ms Armstrong, and presumably Mr Whittington himself?) are also complicit in what is “likely” a major cover-up.
His proof? Well, it just makes sense to him.
That it never occurred to any of the people engaging in such wild, reckless, and unsubstantiated rumor-mongering that the secret service would be quite loathe to allow inebriated frat boys to go wandering around through tall grass with loaded weapons looking to blast shit —particularly when the man next in-line to the presidency is one of those in the party—simply strains credulity. Sure, they don’t have the authority to tell the VP to put down the bottle of Mescal. But c’mon: these aren’t oral dalliances with starry-eyed interns the agents are being asked to overlook, after all—and besides, such recklessness would put their lives in danger as well.
Christ. It’s a wonder President Bartlett made it through a single term alive being forced to wander around in O’Donnell’s feverish DC fantasy world…
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update: in the comments, FA reminds us that Cheney is likely on heart medication, which would make even more dubious the prospect of his getting liquored up to shoot birds.
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To that end, Lime Shurbet did some medical speculating, in fact.
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