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Opinion: The naked truth about Dick Cheney’s sunglasses

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The power of suggestion combined with the power of the Internet is an awesome phenomenon to behold, as illustrated most vividly over the last couple of days by the saga of the reflection in Dick Cheney’s sunglasses.

The Ticket, foolishly preoccupied with other matters, comes late to this, but as virtually every Web-surfer knows, a photo that had been posted on the White House Web of the vice president fly-fishing on the Snake River in Idaho, apparently a few years ago, has become a sensation. And it’s not because we’ve become a nation of avid anglers.

No, the reason is that a blog posting earlier this week postulated that upon intense inspection, the reflection in Cheney’s trademark sunglasses revealed (pardon us) a NAKED LADY. And that was all it took to generate an extraordinary buzz.

As of a few minutes ago, a Google search of ‘Dick Cheney’ and ‘sunglasses’ came back with more than 87,000 hits. The 100,000 mark is sure to be breached soon.

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Times reporter James Hohmann this afternoon tracked down Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride, traveling with the vice president on fundraising stops he’s making in Colorado and California. She reiterated what other White House staffers have had to spend time explaining -- upon close examination, it’s clear the reflection simply caught the vice president in the act of casting a rod.

‘He’s fly fishing,’ she said, understandably a bit exasperated. ‘That’s what he’s doing.’

And no, she added, there were no naked ladies in the vicinity.

Readers, as always, are invited to comment -- give us your reflections on the reflection.

-- Don Frederick

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