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WHY DUCK-HUNTING WITH DICK CHENEY AS CHENEY'S CASE COMES BEFORE THE COURT IS PERFECTLY OK

This criticism Nino calls absurd. It's true that Quackscam is an ugly word.

Calvin Trillin

March 25, 2004

WHY DUCK-HUNTING WITH DICK CHENEY AS CHENEY’S CASE COMES BEFORE THE COURT IS PERFECTLY OK

This criticism Nino calls absurd. It’s true that Quackscam is an ugly word.

He says that simple folks–the likes of us– Show ignorance by making such a fuss About some guys who often fly deluxe In White House planes to blinds for shooting ducks. Unless, of course, we’ve hung with shahs or rockers, We just can’t grasp the life of big k’nockers. There are, he plainly told the ones who’d jeered, Some people too important to be shmeered.

The strongest point he made was when he wrote That such a trip could hardly change his vote. That’s one thing that his critics can’t rebut: He’d vote for Cheney’s side no matter what, Then find some case law more or less in line. If others do the same, that’s five of nine. You think they haven’t done such things before? Get law books out, and look up Bush v. Gore.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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