"What's up with that hat?"

[kpete]

Connecticut reporter Ted Mann asked a "very considerate spokeswoman" for Cheney, "What's up with that hat?"



"It’s to protect his head from the sun," Megan Mitchell, the spokeswoman explained.

Mann writes, "Well. There goes our still-developing theory about the airfoil properties of ten-gallon hat brims. Shoot."

One media outlet noted that the "weather led to something of a fashion statement by Cheney, who looked every bit the man from Wyoming."

However one blogger from the left had a different take.

"Judging from the content of his speech, the hat was not only a Texas-style head accessory, but also a vestiary middle finger to the world," Chris in D.C. writes at Inside-Out the Beltway. "It put an exclamation point on the now-clear fact that Bush and Cheney intend to swagger past their final days in office with every bit as much empty-headed bluster as the first time they recklessly aimed their silver-plated six-shooters at the country and the global community."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Sporting_10gallon_hat_Cheney_tells_Coast_0521.html

[saltpoint]

1. If Dick were a real cowboy the hat wouldn't be creasless and clean.

It would be rag-tag rumbly with the dust of many miles on it.

[havocmom]

3. REAL cowboys don't need Kevlar

Ya don't suppose that hat is...

[YDogg]

4. It looks fresh off the shelf.

[MuseRider]

6. DING!

No kidding. I would send him one of mine but then I love my hats (dingy and raggy as they may be).

[bryant69]

2. That's whats great about having an ideology

Nothing gets in your way. Not even reality.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[Beausoleil]

5. What's with the stupid feather?

Is that what real men from Wyoming have in their hats?

Swaggering with feathers?

[MilesColtrane]

7. He looks like the oil pimp that he is.