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SFGate: It Speaks

“I’m the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry,” Cheney told Fox News Channel in his first public comments since the shooting Saturday in south Texas.

The next line of the epic poem based on that fateful day will be: “I don’t know why I shot the guy. I guess he’ll die.”

Cheney said he had had a beer at lunch that day, but nobody was drinking when they went back out to hunt several hours later.

The old “I only had one drink several hours ago ossifer” works when you’re the VP, I guess.

Then there’s this:

He said he has no idea if he hit a bird because he was focused on Whittington.

Who asked him about that? Was there a reporter from Guns & Ammo in the press corps that day?

“But didja get the bird, Mr. Vice President?”