Reference To Drinking Pulled From Cheney Story

A story about the Cheney/Whittington hunting incident was re-edited after appearing briefly on MSNBC.com on Tuesday. According to the orginal (now unpublished) report, ranch owner Katherine Armstrong stated that she did not believe that alcohol played a part in the shooting accident. But, she admitted, “There may be a beer or two in there, but remember not everyone in the party was shooting.”

Read The Nation’s story about the missing story.

In other news, Cheney to field softball questions from doting reporters on Fox News tonight.