If you were typing up Dick Cheney's attack on Barack Obama's response to the Christmas Day attack in which someone tried to blow up a plane bound for Detroit, and hyping the GOP “strategy for next year's midterm congressional elections” of “portray[ing] Democrats as weak on security,” would you maybe include mention of the fact that two of the four people who allegedly plotted that attack were released from U.W. custody in 2007, while Dick Cheney was Vice President?

Oh, you would, would you? Well, that's the difference between you and Mike Allen. Because Politico really is just a GOP bulletin board.

UPDATE: And just to be clear, Allen didn't get an interview with Cheney. No, he describes the source of Cheney's attacks as “Cheney said in a statement to POLITICO” -- which is a fancy way of saying “Cheney said in a press release.” So to sum up: Dick Cheney sends Mike Allen a press release, which Mike Allen then copies-and-pastes it into a “news article” without mentioning key facts that would undermine Cheney's press release. Aren't you glad Politico got a spot on the Pulitzer committee?