So Darth Cheney gave a taped interview to Fox News today in an attempt to prove that Luke was right and there is still good in him.

Here is my favorite exchange:

Q. Well, what – you must have recognized, though, with all your experience in Washington, that this was going to be a big story.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, true, it was unprecedented. I’ve been in the business for a long time and never seen a situation quite like this. We’ve had experiences where the President has been shot; we’ve never had a situation where the Vice President shot somebody.

Q. Not since Aaron Burr.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Not since Aaron Burr –

Q. Different circumstances.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Different circumstances.

I think this reflects more poorly on Brit, whose inanity cannot be overstated, but I also think it reflects on how bad some of this coverage has been. The story is not that the Vice President shot a man (that’s a fact and the punchline) but that the White House didn’t disclose it, that the VP’s office didn’t disclose it to the West Wing, and that this Administration cannot even take responsibility when one of its own literally pulled the trigger.

How can Bush and Cheney feel accountable for Abu Ghareb when they won’t even take credit for a hunting accident?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, if it’s accurate. If it’s accurate. And this is a complicated story.

Q. But there were some things you knew. I mean, you knew the man had been shot, you knew he was injured, you knew he was in the hospital, and you knew you’d shot him.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Correct.

Q. And you knew certainly by sometime that evening that the relevant members of his family had been called. I realize you didn’t know the outcome, and you could argue that you don’t know the outcome today, really, finally.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: As we saw, if we’d put out a report Saturday night on what we heard then – one report came in that said, superficial injuries. If we’d gone with a statement at that point, we’d have been wrong. And it was also important, I thought, to get the story out as accurately as possible, and this is a complicated story that, frankly, most reporters would never have dealt with before, so

Yeah, their intelligence was bad so they didn’t want to rush into things… Oh, and complicated? Sorry, “man fall down go boom” is pretty simple. Playing the accuracy card doesn’t work when our troops–greater in value and volume–are currently being “peppered” in the midst of a civil war. And the complexity card is just bogus. I mean, come on.