Sarah Palin has returned fire claiming that former Vice President Dick Cheney’s contention that Sen. John McCain made a “mistake” in picking her as his running mate is off-base in an interview with Fox News Tuesday night. Palin’s fiery response blamed Cheney’s opinion on the “lamestream media” and threw in a reference to a quail-hunting incident in which Cheney accidently shot his friend.
“Seeing as how Dick – excuse me, Vice President Cheney – never misfires, then evidently he’s quite convinced that what he had evidently read about me by the lamestream media, having been written, what I believe is a false narrative over the last four years, evidently Dick Cheney believed that stuff and that’s a shame,” Palin said.
In an interview on Sunday, Cheney said that picking Palin was a “mistake” and that she was not ready to be president.
“Here’s where the mistake would have been, I believe. If I had not answered the call,” Palin said. “I was honored to run for the vice president of the United States alongside Sen. John McCain. I was honored to accept the nomination from the GOP.”
