Vice President Dick Cheney gave an interview to Playboy magazine and addressed a variety of hot topics. One of them was the race issue.
Said Cheney:
I think they're playing the race card, in my view. Certainly we haven't given up—nor should we give up—the right to criticize an administration and public officials. To say that we criticize, or that I criticize, Barack Obama or Eric Holder because of race, I just think it’s obviously not true. My view of it is the criticism is merited because of performance—or lack of performance, because of incompetence. It hasn’t got anything to do with race.
Cheney also weighed in on the Ferguson controversy:
Well [pauses] what I see is disturbing. It's always a tragedy when there is a death involved and so forth. But it seems to me it's a clear-cut case that the officer did what he had to do to defend himself. .... And I've been disappointed, I guess, in the Obama administration's response. ... I don't think it is about race. I think it is about an individual who conducted himself in a manner that was almost guaranteed to provoke an officer trying to do his duty.
