Dana Milbank gets this just right:

Vice President Cheney protested yesterday that he had been misunderstood when he said last week that critics of the White House over Iraq were "dishonest and reprehensible."

What he meant to say, he explained to his former colleagues at the American Enterprise Institute, was that those who question the White House's use of prewar intelligence were not only "dishonest and reprehensible" but also "corrupt and shameless." ...

Loud and clear. Noted that the pre-war intelligence issue is clearly the issue that is of most sensitivity to the White House.

Posted by Laura at November 21, 2005 10:07 PM