I don't think that Cheney is necessarily anybody's spokesperson, but I know that Obama has been treated as a messiah by the press. It's obvious that the Dems are going to try to use Bush as the blame for every problem for the next 4 years and Cheney put them in their place. I bet that the press were watering at the mouth about how Cheney would come off in the split screen with Obama and they were probably disappointed when he did well and spoke nothing but the truth.