He meant to say "Put a sock in it", but it came out as "Go f---- yourself."

The next question would be...put a sock in what? This story from Wired Magazine.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lynne Cheney said on Sunday her husband, Vice President Dick Cheney, was acting out of character when he used the "F-word" on the Senate floor last month.

She said the vice president's heated discussion with Sen. Patrick Leahy, in which he cursed the Vermont Democrat, was meant to be a private exchange.

"He was sorely tried, if I may say so, by someone attacking his integrity and then pretending to be his best friend. I think that's what set it off," Lynne Cheney said on CNN.

"The way Dick did it, it was a private comment. You wouldn't know it from the amount of publicity that it's garnered," she said.

Cheney was overheard telling Leahy to "go f--- yourself" after the senator said hello to him on June 22 following the taking of the Senate group photo. Leahy had earlier criticized alleged war profiteering by Halliburton, the oil services company Cheney once ran.

The vice president later told reporters he had no regrets about the outburst. Still, Lynne Cheney said her husband was not prone to cursing.

"He is such a good man, and more likely to say, 'Put a sock in it' if he's really tried," she said. "I can understand when people are pushed to extremes, that in a private setting they might say something unusual."

Copyright 2003 Reuters Limited.

Personally I don't care what he says. But it's the hypocrisy of it all.