CHENEY CLAIMS NOBODY WAS DRINKING -- BUT HE HAD A BEER CHENEY INTERVIEW WITH BRIT HUME
Q Was anybody drinking in this party? THE VICE PRESIDENT: No. You don't hunt with people who drink. That's not a good idea. We had --
Q So he wasn't, and you weren't?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Correct. We'd taken a break at lunch -- go down under an old -- ancient oak tree there on the place, and have a barbecue. I had a beer at lunch. After lunch we take a break, go back to ranch headquarters. Then we took about an hour-long tour of ranch, with a ranch hand driving the vehicle, looking at game. We didn't go back into the field to hunt quail until about, oh, sometime after 3:00 p.m.
The five of us who were in that party were together all afternoon. Nobody was drinking, nobody was under the influence.
Nobody was drinking. You don't hunt with people who drink. That's not a good idea. We took a BBQ lunch break in the field under a tree and he had a beer. Then they went back to ranch headquarters. They went back out hunting quail at about 3:00 p.m.. Nobody was drinking, nobody was under the influence.
Uh huh.
Notice that they had lunch in the field and then went back to the ranch headquarters. The beer was in the field with them. Presumably that was just ONE (1) beer and Cheney drank it while everyone else drank their Dr. Pepper and watched him drink his ONE (1) beer.
Uh huh.
When did they eat lunch? When did they finish lunch? Had the beer passed through his system by 3:00 p.m.?
Wait a minute. What beer? Nobody was drinking. You don't hunt with people who drink. That's not a good idea. Nobody was drinking, nobody was under the influence.
Wait a minute. Maybe he was parsing. If it is not Wild Turkey or the equivalent, it is not considered drinking.
Whatever. Brit Hume let it slide.