Asked and answered

Since various people including Christopher Hitchens want to know whether it's true that King George VII wanted to bomb al Jazeera headquarters in Qatar, consider the present state of mind of Vice President Dick Cheney, who wasn't even directly asked about al Jazeera today, but couldn't help himself:

Q [from Hugh Hewitt] All right. Yesterday on CNN, Jack Cafferty suggested that the administration may be timing the release of the Osama tape whenever bad news rears its head. A little bit crazy, but what do you react -- what's Dick Cheney's reaction when commentary like that comes out of a major network?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: We don't control the release of the Osama bin Laden tapes, Al Jazeera does, or seems to. And they were the source of this most recent tape. I think they've been the source of virtually all of these tapes. When the al Qaeda organization has something to say, they tend to say it through or release it through Al Jazeera primarily in Doha, in Qatar. And that's where we get out information, as well, is when it goes public from Al Jazeera.

Note especially that whereas most people would think of Osama Bin Laden as the source of tape of Osama bin Laden, Cheney went out of his way to say that al Jazeera was the source. A guilty mind, or a conspiratorial one?