I keep hearing the same comments "on the Senate floor" like Cheney was on the floor making these comments and not in a private conversation. It is not true and it is just another way of twisting the truth.
That's exactly the intent of the authors and their employers.
The re-writing of history (propaganda) is being written in nanoseconds now.
Magicians have nothing on these sleezeballs. Their slight of hand is simply amazing, and very believable, to those who haven't seen the trick before.