Been hearing a lot of Cheney's "outrageous" statement about making wrong choices and terrorist attacks? That's because he's not just being quoted out of context but actually having a sentence cut off.

Here is how the sound bite runs:

Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we’ll get hit again, that we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States.

Big problem with that quote - it's incomplete. There should be no period after "Standpoint of the United States"

Here is the actual quote:

"Because if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we’ll get hit again, that we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States, and that we’ll fall back into the pre-9/11 mind set if you will, that in fact these terrorist attacks are just criminal acts, and that we’re not really at war. I think that would be a terrible mistake for us. "

Changes the meaning quite a bit doesn't it? Notice that the sound bites cut him off as to make it sound like Cheney is saying that the "wrong choice" would mean an attack.

But that's not what he said. He said that if we make the wrong choice and we get attacked that we might go back and treat terrorism like a law enforcement issue like the Clinton administration did.

It's really amazing that the media would do this kind of distortion. But then again, given the CBS news hoax, who knows what's possible.