When Dick Cheney lied about never meeting Sen. John Edwards, Opinion Journal.com, the Wall Street Journal’s web site, covered up for Cheney, saying he was "mistaken" and implied the meeting must have been forgettable for Cheney not to have remember it.
The Journal did point out, “It turns out Cheney was mistaken, as the Associated Press reports,” but followed that with a blogger's comment that somehow compared Cheney to a high school football player.
But when Al Gore made a "mistake" in a 2000 debate and said he visited a Texas disaster site with the head of FEMA, how did the Journal react?
If Al Gore can't tell the truth as a candidate, how can we trust him to be president? Maybe if this Presidential thing doesn't work out for Al Gore, he can get a job doing Burger King commercials for The Whopper.
Which was worse, not remembering meeting a senator or traveling with a federal agency director?
So, will the Journal ask: "IF DICK CHENEY CAN'T TELL THE TRUTH AS A CANDIDATE, HOW CAN WE TRUST HIM TO BE VICE PRESIDENT?" Don't expect an answer. Perhaps the Journal editorial staff is hoping that its page is so forgetable that no one remembers the 2000 article.
Also, according to the dailykos, Cheney said he didn’t meet Edwards until last night despite being as the Senate every Tuesday. Small problem, apparently Cheney presided over the Senate a grand total of TWO times over the past four years – the same number of times as Edwards presided over the Senate.
So TWICE in FOUR YEARS Cheney actually showed up to be presiding officer of the Senate and he didn't meet Edwards. What are the odds?
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