Spokeswoman explains why Cheney wore 10-gallon cowboy hat (it protected his head from the sun)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Media: What's up with the hat?

According to a spokesperson, the vice president had a perfectly legitimate reason for wearing a cowboy hat at the graduation ceremony.

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

[panader0]

1. And it hid the tin foil cone.

[Riddler]

2. Reminds me of the old joke: What do cowboy hats and hemorhoids have in common?

You only find them on assholes.

[StarryNite]

3. It would take a 50 gallon hat

to cover that fat head.

[global1]

4. "Cowboy Diplomacy".....nt

[tanyev]

5. That hat must have some special kind of protective field.

I would have guessed that he would completely disintegrate if exposed to the sun.

[Frustratedlady]

6. I thought his head was where they planted the solar charger.

If he wears that hat, what keeps him going?

[Berry Cool]

7. Never has the phrase "All hat, no cattle" meant more. n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. He was covering up his horns

which tend to sprout when he gets excited. The descent of America into chaos is really getting him excited lately.