WAS CHENEY DRUNK?

From Thought Crimes courtesy of Eschaton:

Alert reader StickDog at DU caught this tidbit. When first posted, NBC news quoted Katharine Armstrong as saying:

"There may be a beer or two in there," she said, "but remember not everyone in the party was shooting.".

About an hour later, the quote was deleted from the story.

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You know my first thought about Cheney's accident was that it was interesting but of no political significance. Sadly, hunting accidents are part of the sport, and, while unfortunate, are bound to happen when you have guys with guns running around trying to kill animals--don't get me wrong; after reading about how the meat industry functions in the book Fast Food Nation, I developed a great deal of sympathy for hunters, who are positively humane in comparison. I still think there's probably not anything to the story as far as politics goes, but this beer thing's got my spider-sense tingling. No, I don't think Cheney was drunk, but I wonder why NBC felt it had to eliminate the reference to alcohol being on the scene. I'm curious. It could be an innocuous editorial decision, but it could also be a wrong-headed attempt to help out the Veep--after all, NBC is owned by GE, one of the top weapons manufacturers in the world, a pillar of the military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about decades ago. Or, worse, perhaps the White House made a couple of phone calls. There might be a political angle to this after all, some sort of cover-up. Or not. I'll keep my ears on this story and see what happens.

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