Defending Dick

Matthew Hoy
By Matthew Hoy on September 8, 2004

Julian Sanchez points out that the outrageous Dick Cheney quote from yesterday isn't quite as outrageous as the press has made it seem.

As I read this, he's not saying the danger is that if we elect Kerry, then the danger is that we'll be attacked. He's saying that if we elect Kerry and we're attacked, then the danger is that we'll treat it as a criminal act rather than an act of war. And in context, it's actually pretty transparent that this is what Cheney intended. So transparent once you look at the full transcript, in fact, that I wonder whether some of the misreading isn't deliberate, either as a partisan tactic or an attempt to generate a news story.

The press taking sides? Say it ain't so!

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