OT per the "lie" issue, but relevant to the Cheney and the shooting thing...
(And possibly relevant to Dylan's reply above...)

"More then three in four said it was understandable that the accident had occurred and two-thirds said the media had spent too much time covering the story.

Still, the incident appears to have made the public's already negative view of Cheney a more so. Just 18 percent said they had a favorable view of the vice president, down from 23 percent in January.

Americans were evenly split on whether or not Cheney's explanation of why there was a delay in reporting the accident was satisfactory."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1350874.shtml

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