Reflections on an interview, or, are you fucking kidding?

A few parts of the NYTimes story on Trigger Dick's interview stand out to me. In the words of K.Griff, let's break it down:

He suggested that the outcry about his failure to release the news, and then just to a local newspaper, reflected the unhappiness of the White House press corps that they were left out of the first reports.

"They didn't like the idea that we called The Corpus Christi Caller-Times instead of The New York Times," Mr. Cheney said. "But it strikes me that The Corpus Christi Caller-Times is just as valid a news outlet as The New York Times is, especially for covering a major story in south Texas."

So you're saying... that the issue here is... that the WH Press Corps is a bunch of babies and they don't want someone the likes of Kathryn Garcia (cutie) scooping them. And with all due respect to our girl Kathryn, the CCC-T is not "just as valid a news outlet" as the NYT no matter how you frame it, being that the latter is--what's the term--a national paper. Furthermore, as he is the VPOTUS, this was not simply "a major story in south Texas," but rather, as we've seen in the past several days, a major national story. Points for the faux-humility of saying "it strikes me that..." though.

Moving on...

When asked whether anyone in the group had been drinking, Mr. Cheney said: "No, you don't hunt with people who drink. That's not a good idea."

Somebody tell that to H.Whitt!

As for that conspiracy theory?

Until Mr. Cheney acknowledged having had a beer at lunch, members of the hunting party had been adamant that no alcohol was involved. Katharine Armstrong, whose family owns the ranch, had said in interviews that Dr Pepper was served at lunch and that no one was drinking. In interviews with The Times and other papers, Ms. Armstrong heavily implied that no alcohol was served at all.

"No, zero, zippo, and I don't drink at all," she said in an interview published on Monday in The Corpus Christi Caller-Times, the paper she initially called. "No one was drinking."

But GUYS -- guys -- this is no reason for us not to take his word that it was just one beer.