White House: Cheney didn’t endorse water-boarding when he endorsed water-boarding.
Here’s the best line though. Tony Snow: “You know as a matter of common sense that the vice president of the United States is not going to be talking about water boarding. Never would, never does, never will. You think Dick Cheney’s going to slip up on something like this? No, come on.”
You mean, Dick Cheney totally muff something out of mix of arrogance and incompetence?
Who could ever imagine that?
Late Update: Here are the exact words Cheney said. You decide whether to believe Tony Snow or your own lying eyes.
Even Later Update from TPM Reader EL: “In regards to Cheney slipping up, lets not forget we’re talking about the guy who shot his friend in the face and was caught calling a reporter a “major league a$$hole” on tape and that’s just what comes to mind, I’m sure there are a couple dozen other Cheney slip up’s out there.” I was thinking of some of the weightier screw-ups like, say, Iraq or some of these examples. (Do we forget that Cheney’s the bumbler who headed up the pre-9/11 terrorism task force that forgot to meet until something like a week before 9/11? Doh!) But, hey, more bonehead screw-ups the merrier.
