There isn’t a rolleyes big enough to express how I feel about this.
At best, we have a “he said, she said.”
At worst, and I quote directly from the article:
Without having overheard the alleged conversation, or even the debate itself, we’re left with a heaping pile of stinking mud, which you feel free to sling willy-nilly based upon your uncritical belief in one side of a story in a blurb of an article.
I also wonder and on the tape the man gets up in the Senator’s face and security would have done the same thing, even if he was just asking what time it was.
C’mon, Cheney shot a guy in the head and then had the guy publicly apologize for causing Cheney problems. That’s really set the bar pretty high for every other Republican.
You mean in the sense of holding a gun to his head? Probably not, except in the literal sense.
However, I’m pretty confident that Cheney must have pre-read and approved Harry Whittington’s statement before it was made. Considering how Cheney insisted on controlling every other detail of the incident, there’s no way he’d have wanted Whittington talking to reporters without knowing what he was going to say.
According to Salon.com, this guy has weekly conference calls with George W. Bush. They joke that the only thing they disagree on is which truck to drive.
Well, I don’t know where it ranks, but it does rankle. I just got a call from the local black democrats, and they made sure I knew they were black democrats, urging me to vote for Michael Steel, a man who espouses no democratic positions.
So, now the Republicans are playing a reverse race card, finding some Uncle Toms to shill for a fake black guy, because he appears black. And them trying to guilt some other blacks into voting for the black guy that won’t represent them only because he is black.