Washington DC - At 11:12 this morning, Vice President Dick Cheney had Press Secretary Scott McClellan inform the Washington media reporting pool that the Vice President was going to ‘take a dump’ and would not be handling his duties as Vice President for the next several minutes.
The Vice President, still stinging from criticism stemming from his decision to release news of his hunting accident last week via The Corpus Christi Caller-Times instead of through the White House Press Corps, felt he’d better not take any chances should anyone wonder where he was for the next few minutes.
Scott McClellan, the White House Press Secretary stated, ‘We took a lot of heat last week for not having any type of ‘game plan’ should something happen to the Vice President while hunting and for the resulting delay in reporting the incident. Well we’re not taking any chances anymore. He’s gone to take a dump and we feel the Vice President will be back to perform his duties shortly, but should anything happen, we’re ready for it’.
McClellan did not take any questions from reporters.