The Daily Howler - Cheney drunk doesn't matter?

Interesting take by the Daily Howler. What do you think?

SCARBOROUGH GETS IT RIGHT: In today's Post, it’s Krauthammer going feudal, repeating the things his sovereign has said and imagining nothing beyond them. (As he often does at times like this, he also says that he’s a psychiatrist, and that those who dispute him seem to be semi-nuts.) It’s fascinating to watch such men turn themselves into willing vassals. Equally puzzling is this question: Why do papers like the Post put such complete, utter cant into print? This morning, Krauthammer repeats what his sovereign has said—and contemplates nothing beyond it.
For ourselves, we’ll go with Imus this morning; we don’t hugely care if Cheney was drinking on this ill-fated hunt. (Imus assumes that he was.) Presumably, impaired hunting would be stupid, but it isn’t like drunk driving, where uninvolved people are put at risk. If there was drinking—and there may not have been, of course—then presumably, Whittington knew it. But it has been quite instructive to watch the way a range of pundits have dealt with this issue. By Tuesday night, it was clear that many Inside Washington players were trying to avoid the possibility that Cheney ducked the sheriff for a reason. Yesterday, the vassal Brooks lowered the boom, accusing those who raise this obvious question of ginning up a “vast conspiracy.” It was intriguing this week to see who spoke—and to see who went feudal and cowered.

One who spoke was Joe Scarborough. Scarborough can be a very sharp pundit—and he often bucks his party’s scripts. (“Conspiracy theory” was Talking-Point One, recited by every team player.) All this week, Scarborough discussed various possible explanations for Cheney’s odd conduct. And we’ll promise you this—his viewers didn’t like it. By Wednesday night, he was saying this:

SCARBOROUGH (2/15/06): There are a lot of people, I can guarantee you right now, who are very angry, saying, “How could you all even talk about”—or, “Scarborough, how could you allow anybody to come on your show and suggest that the vice president may have been drinking too much when he fired the shot?”

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It was reckless, booze or no booze.

I admit it's a damned good sideshow, but this whole cheney affair is 99.9% cheap posturing and I am including my fellow DUers in this category.

It's a good thing that there is nothing else significant happening that we should be paying attention.

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and it does involve the VP of the US and the question of the story being suppressed by Cheney. Also, I think the news channels and us DUers are capable of concentrating on more than one story or situation at a time. As a matter of fact we all do it everyday. Lets keep the pressure on the Cheney story.

I am on the fence about insisting Cheney resign because he will make an excellent target for Dems to campaign on in the '06 elections.

Nobody gives a flying fuck about Whittington. Nobody really cares about this particular crime. The whole point is that this is a chance to score political points against Republicans.

And if the situation were reversed - say Harry Reid or John Kerry shot someobody in a hunting accident, 99.9% of the people worked up about this would comfortably completely reverse their position.