BREAKING: Dick Cheney’s Mea Culpa

Fox News is airing snippets of Brit Hume’s interview with Vice President Dick Cheney (which will be broadcast in its entirety at 6 p.m.; we plan to liveblog it, so tune in). Here are a few quotes (or paraphrases):

• “It’s not Harry’s fault. You can’t blame anyone else. I’m the one who pulled the trigger and shot my friend.”

• “The image of [Harry] falling is something I’ll never be able to get out of my mind. It was one of the worst days of my life, a moment I’ll never forget.

• “I ran over and said, ‘Harry, I had no idea you were there.’ Harry did not respond.”

And here are some unanswered questions — or questions that were touched upon, but could be answered more fully:

• Why didn’t the White House disclose the hunting accident more quickly and more fully?

• Why didn’t the White House disseminate news of the hunting accident more widely — for example, to the Associated Press, as opposed to a local newspaper? (In one interview excerpt, Cheney said he knew that the wires would pick it up from the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.)

• Was alcohol at all involved in this accident?

Tune in to Fox News — and Wonkette — at 6 p.m. today, to find out more.

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