A blast from the past

Ouch. I feel as though America has just been shot in the face.

Mr. Putin was asked about a strong rebuke, delivered May 4 by Mr. Cheney in Lithuania, a former Soviet republic, in which the vice president said the government in Moscow “unfairly and improperly restricted” people’s rights, and suggested that the Kremlin sought to use the country’s vast resources of oil and gas as tools to intimidate its neighbors.

“I think that these kinds of comments from your vice president amount to the same thing as an unfortunate shot while out hunting,” Mr. Putin said in an interview on the NBC program “Today,” according to the Kremlin’s translation.

If all goes according to form, Dick Cheney will next apologize for being in the way of Putin's snark pellets.