Why did Cheney get evasive about Karl Rove?

Cheney seemed to be doing fine, but when the subject of Rove came up, he starts babbling.

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2006/02/_cheney_im_the_guy_who_pulled.html

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Q And did you discuss this with Karl Rove at any time, as has
been reported?


THE VICE PRESIDENT: No, Karl talks to -- I don't recall talking to
Karl. Karl did talk with Katherine Armstrong, who is a good mutual
friend to both of us. Karl hunts at the Armstrong, as well --


Q Say that again?


THE VICE PRESIDENT: I said Karl has hunted at the Armstrong, as
well, and we're both good friends of the Armstrongs and of Katherine
Armstrong. And Katherine suggested, and I agreed, that she would go
make the announcement, that is that she'd put the story out. And I
thought that made good sense for several reasons. First of all, she was
an eye-witness. She'd seen the whole thing. Secondly, she'd grown up
on the ranch, she'd hunted there all of her life. Third, she was the
immediate past head of the Texas Wildlife and Parks Department, the game
control commission in the state of Texas, an acknowledged expert in all
of this.


And she wanted to go to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, which is
the local newspaper, covers that area, to reporters she knew. And I
thought that made good sense because you can get as accurate a story as
possible from somebody who knew and understood hunting. And then it
would immediately go up to the wires and be posted on the website, which
is the way it went out. And I thought that was the right call.

Just a theory....

It's all really sick...incest among the Texas power elite:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2461706&mesg_id=2461706

...beep .... the chicken is in the biscuit....

Cheney is probably the most awesomely shameless liars in the Bush administration, and that's saying a lot. But here he sounds like an amateur, he sounds like Condi almost.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/ats-ap_top10feb13,0,6257313.story?coll=sns-ap-topnews

"Katharine Armstrong said she saw Cheney's security detail running toward the scene. "The first thing that crossed my mind was he had a heart problem," she told The Associated Press."

If the first thing she saw was Cheney's security detail running toward the scene, and she thought Cheney'd had a heart attack, then she WASN'T an eyewitness and shouldn't be talking in the press about what happened when she has no freaking idea. If she didn't see or hear anything, which she indicates by saying she thought Cheney'd had heart problems, then how the freak does SHE know if Whittington announced himself or not, or even if Cheney had seen him and shot anyway? She DOESN'T KNOW what happened !! The above statement ***PROVES*** that she was *NOT* an eyewitness - SHE WASNT THERE.

Brit Hume Interview:
THE VICE PRESIDENT: I said Karl has hunted at the Armstrong, as
well, and we're both good friends of the Armstrongs and of Katherine
Armstrong. And Katherine suggested, and I agreed, that she would go
make the announcement, that is that she'd put the story out. And I
thought that made good sense for several reasons. First of all, she was
an eye-witness. She'd seen the whole thing.

CHENEY LIED ! IMPEACH!

GOOD CATCH

See this it confirms your find and has more inconsisitencies:

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/02/15/story/index.html

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What is clear: Cheney's account differs in several respects from the one Armstrong put out.

Armstrong told the Houston Chronicle that shooting victim Harry Whittington was "bruised more than bloodied" and that his "pride was hurt more than anything else." Cheney said that Whittington was "laying there on his back" and "obviously bleeding" after the shooting. Armstrong said that Whittington was "talking immediately" after he was hit. Cheney said that Whittington didn't respond when he first tried to talk to him.

Although Armstrong told a different story later, she initially told CNN that "she did not believe the Vice President's Office was aware that she was going to go to the local press." Cheney said that he talked with Armstrong about her plan to break the news to a local reporter and "thought it made good sense."

Cheney said he liked the idea of having Armstrong tell the story because she was a former head of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department -- "an acknowledged expert in all this" -- and because she was a "witness" who had "seen the whole thing" happen.

That's how Armstrong initially passed herself off, too, telling the Corpus Christi Caller-Times that Whittington had fallen behind the hunting party and was approaching from 30 yards behind when Cheney, tracking a bird that took off in front of him, turned and shot in Whittington's direction. But it now seems that Armstrong may not have witnessed the incident at all. According to the Washington Post, Armstrong was in a vehicle about 100 yards away when the shooting happened. And she told the Associated Press that when she saw Cheney's medical detail running toward the scene, "the first thing that crossed my mind was he had a heart problem."

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and the WH is furious that Cheney's team screwed up the PR.