gratuitous slap at Dick Cheney in "TV Guide"

[Cocoa]

the gratuitousness is the beauty of it.

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Insider/?cmsGuid=%7B476CD7D6-1197-4300-A4E7-BE090D7AD7E4%7D

TVGuide.com: Are you and Miles above disseminating bogus info to fan sites, to throw folks off the scent of the 100th-eppy death?
Gough: We're trying to write an Aquaman pilot. We haven't got time to disseminate false information.
TVGuide.com: Well sure, but you get some lackey in the copy room to do it.

Gough: To get online and feed misinformation? We actually don't do that. We probably should, but we don't have our Dick Cheney-like disseminators of misinformation. I think other shows do, and they do that very well — 24 does a brilliant job in that you never knew anything about that show. It just doesn't seem to get out. But with Smallville, I think sometimes I read about the script online before I get it at my house!