An allegory.

Say you're at a party. At night, when things are getting really fun, you see a guy stealing the host's jewelry and slipping roofies into the drinks. You tell the host, and the host calls the police. The asshole swears up and down that he's done nothing wrong and miraculously gets away with it.

The next day, at work, you find out that YOU'RE supposed to be the asshole because you caught the real asshole on his asshole behavior.

Makes sense?

Only to Cheney.