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&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#8217;re like me, you made the blunder last night of letting the television rest on one of those cable news pundit segments. Apparently McCain impregnated someone?&amp;nbsp; So hard to sort out what they are talking about. It went something like this:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Gasbag:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &quot;blah blah VET&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;VETTING blah VET blah&quot;&lt;br&gt;Blowhard:&amp;nbsp;&quot; VETTING? Blah blah blah VET double-VET&quot;&lt;br&gt;Gasbag:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &quot;Oh VET yourself&quot; &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;[etc, ad nauseum]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It turns out this vetting racket is the domain of some of BigLaw&amp;#8217;s biggest guns, including &lt;br&gt;former Clinton Secretary of State (and O&amp;#8217;Melveny &amp;amp; Myers partner) Warren Christopher, who is described in today&amp;#8217;s &lt;i&gt;&lt;i&gt;New York Law Journal&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;as having helped Clinton &amp;#8220;find&amp;#8221; his future running mate, &lt;span&gt;Al Gore. (How hard could that have been?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Wasn&amp;#8217;t Gore standing there at the same debates and so forth?)&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Anyway, the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;NYLJ&lt;/i&gt; piece &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;has some interesting detail on the vetting process of Sarah Palin conducted by Arthur Culvahouse, the current O&amp;#8217;Melveny chairman, who&lt;/span&gt; &amp;#8220;spent three to four hours interviewing the &lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:state w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Alaska&lt;/st1:state&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; governor, who also completed a 40-page questionnaire submitted by lawyers for the McCain campaign.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All of the Beltway insiders quoted in the article did so anonymously, including one with &amp;#8220;a few vetting notches on his belt,&amp;#8221; who asked &amp;#8220;How do you miss this stuff? Ask Bob Kimmitt, the deputy secretary of the Treasury and a &lt;st1:country-region w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;&lt;st1:place w:st=&quot;on&quot;&gt;Vietnam&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; veteran, how he forgot to ask Dan Quayle what he did during the war! These things happen.&amp;#8221;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;-posted by brian&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;UPDATE:&amp;nbsp; Slate &amp;nbsp;runs an &quot;Explainer&quot; on the V word:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;It&#39;s a figurative contraction of veterinarian. The fancy word for animal doctor originated in the mid-17&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; century. The colloquial abbreviation dates to the 1860s; the verb form of the word, meaning &quot;to treat an animal,&quot; came a few decades later&amp;#8212;according to the Oxford English Dictionary the earliest known usage is 1891&amp;#8212;and was applied primarily in a horse-racing context. (&quot;He vetted the stallion before the race,&quot; &quot;you should vet that horse before he races,&quot; etc.)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;

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