Sporting 10-gallon hat, Cheney tells Coast Guard grads: War will not drag on indefinitely (UPDATE)
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Media: What's up with the hat?
According to a spokesperson, the vice president had a perfectly legitimate reason for wearing a cowboy hat at the graduation ceremony.
Connecticut reporter Ted Mann asked a "very considerate spokeswoman" for Cheney, "What's up with that hat?"
"It’s to protect his head from the sun," Megan Mitchell, the spokeswoman explained.
Mann writes, "Well. There goes our still-developing theory about the airfoil properties of ten-gallon hat brims. Shoot."
One media outlet noted that the "weather led to something of a fashion statement by Cheney, who looked every bit the man from Wyoming."
However one blogger from the left had a different take.
"Judging from the content of his speech, the hat was not only a Texas-style head accessory, but also a vestiary middle finger to the world," Chris in D.C. writes at Inside-Out the Beltway. "It put an exclamation point on the now-clear fact that Bush and Cheney intend to swagger past their final days in office with every bit as much empty-headed bluster as the first time they recklessly aimed their silver-plated six-shooters at the country and the global community."
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