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  1. 1.

    kindness

    This morning NPR reported that Cheney was on the Today show & he said it’s OK for the US to waterboard people but it’s not OK for anyone else in the world to waterboard Americans.

    Saying this on a national show no less. I guess ‘some’ people don’t care about principles, integrity or the appearance of blatant hypocrisy.

  3. 3.

    c u n d gulag

    Let’s at least be thankful that Bush is no longer President, and that, with his mechanical heart, Cheney is no longer “a ‘heartbeat’ away…”

    And how long before Liz runs for office, and we have to deal with her on a daily basis?

    After all, the stool doesn’t usually fall far from the asshole.

  4. 4.

    dpCap

    @kindness:
    No self awareness. Even if he was literally caught with blood on his hands, he would still say it was a right and good thing.

    Why?

    Because, IOKIYAR

  5. 5.

    CaseyL

    I’d like to think Cheney still has access to media coverage simply because the booking agents are terrified of saying “no” to him, rather than think they’re booking him because they genuinely think he has something worthwhile to say.

    But I doubt that’s true.

    Cheney is a monster, yes. But he’s a hugely successful monster: he redefined what the United States stands for, stole hundreds of billions of dollars for his former company, and (with the ignorant, pliant assistance of Bush the Lesser) destroyed our economy and damn near destroyed our military.

    In America, being a monster is secondary to how well you do at it. Cheney did very well at it, and so he will continue to do very well, period.

  6. 6.

    The Dangerman

    After years of deep reflection, Cheney can tell us that he didn’t make a single mistake. Must be nice to live in his (their) world.

    @kindness:

    This morning NPR reported that Cheney was on the Today show & he said it’s OK for the US to waterboard people but it’s not OK for anyone else in the world to waterboard Americans.

    After Obama is reinaugurated, I’d love to see Cheney brought up on charges (yeah, yeah, I know); sadly, the fucker probably won’t live that long.

  7. 7.

    Mike Goetz

    Now that Cheney has lost all that weight, he literally looks exactly like a live-action C. Montgomery Burns.

  8. 8.

    Villago Delenda Est

    This is pretty much the equivalent of, in 1948 Germany, giving Hans Frank a big advance for his memoirs.

    Except that Hans Frank was put to death for his crimes two years previous, of course.

  9. 9.

    Steve

    Wolf Blitzer has a take that makes me weep for the state of journalism.

    It was during the six months of Operation Desert Shield and the six weeks of Operation Desert Storm that I really got to know then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney and then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Colin Powell…

    —

    Flash forward to the years after 9/11 when they again were serving a different President Bush. Things clearly had changed. Cheney, of course, was vice president; Powell was secretary of state. I began to hear grumblings from their respective aides during those years that things were not necessarily all that smooth between them. “No love lost,” I remember one top adviser saying.

    —

    I was surprised given what I thought was a strong partnership that had been forged during the first Gulf War.

    Let’s see, you spent six months of your life “really getting to know” these guys, and yet you had no idea there was a ton of animosity between them? And this guy is a household name in journalism!

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    Dick Cheney once shot a man in the face by accident; and it was the man he shot who apologized to him. Is it really any surprise that he never sees himself as being in the wrong? The real mystery to me is how come he’s like that.

  12. 12.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Steve:

    You have to remember, Leslie is the guy who, after being told by his own in studio expert guests that it was just not possible for the balloon boy to be flying around (it was as simple question of weight ratios, to open up an entire boulevard of snark), still insisted on speculating that he was in fact flying around.

    He’s what passes for a “journalist” at CNN nowadays.

  14. 14.

    Southern Beale

    Wonder if we’ll see events like this on Cheney’s inevitable book tour? (or will he be too ill to tour?)

    ARMY RANGER’S WIDOW CONFRONTS RUMSFELD ABOUT HER HUSBAND’S SUICIDE | Security officers removed an Army Ranger’s widow from former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s book signing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, Washington. Ashley Joppa-Hagemann, whose husband committed suicide in June before his ninth deployment, said her husband joined the military because of 9/11, and she said “it was his (Rumsfeld’s) lies that cost my husband his life.” Her husband had been diagnosed with PTSD but had not received help despite requesting it. Joppa-Hagemann introduced herself to Rumsfeld by handing him a copy of her husband’s funeral program and blamed Rumsfeld for not providing enough support for soldiers returning home before security officers removed her and anti-war veteran Jorge Gonzalez from the event. Watch a local news report of the incident here.

    This is what I was saying earlier. Most of these winger book deals are less about selling books and more about polishing the GOP brand and getting the winger message out there. Look how everyone is talking about Cheney now. It’s a way of grabbing the national dialogue and getting your viewpoint out there. Of course, liberal books never get any such attention.

    But perhaps if we see more disruptions such as these at the inevitable book signings, we’ll see fewer book deals handed out to the likes of Christine O’Donnell and other nobodies whose 15 minutes expired long ago.

  15. 15.

    CaseyL

    @Amir Khalid: He’s a sociopath. He’s unashamed because sociopaths don’t feel shame. Ditto guilt. Sociopaths have no conscience, and are borderline solipsists: the rest of us don’t really exist to them, except insofar as we are sources of things they want (power and money, in Cheney’s case).

  16. 16.

    Samara Morgan

    Try this.

    and this.

    democracynow Democracy Now!
    Ex-Bush Official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: “I Am Willing To Testify” If Dick #Cheney Is Put On Trial owl.li/6gAjV

  18. 18.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    The book will be a major letdown if he doesn’t dish on just exactly what it felt like to be Dick Cheney at the moment when he broke into Dumbledore’s tomb to steal the elder wand. And then later on when he found out it didn’t work for him because he wasn’t the wand’s true master.

  19. 19.

    bemused

    I wonder if tough guy Cheney would have written this book and done in your face, what are you going to do about it interviews if he was relatively healthy with a likely life span into his 80s instead of a man long past his expiration date. He knows he’ll never live long enough to face any possible repercussions if any. Would 5 deferment Cheney have really risked his skin or is he so megalomaniacal, he would have anyway.

  21. 21.

    c u n d gulag

    @maya:
    If they had any brains, the minute his family is gone, they should replace his headstone with a commode, and charge people $25 to either piss or shit on his grave, or $45 for both.

  23. 23.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @maya:

    He will go down in history as the first VP to require Secret Service protection after he’s dead and gone. Might as well bury him in an undisclosed location and be done with it.

  24. 24.

    Derf

    You voted for Cheney/Bush twice Wrong Way Cole. What more can be said indeed. You certainly have not earned the right to say anything more.

  26. 26.

    MonkeyBoy

    Here are direct links that will take you to the tags sections of his Amazon tags pages.

    page 1, page 2, page 3.

    Create new tags or vote up as you think appropriate (in general voting up is better than voting down as a way of getting the “best tags” on the first page).

    There seems to be a lot of voting action e.g. “wingnut welfare” is on page 3 with 5 up votes and 4 down.

    I generally prefer multiword snarky phrases but haven’t created any yet. If we do create some it would take BJ group action to advance them from the oblivion of page 3.

  30. 30.

    kindness

    @Southern Beale: No I doubt it. If an Army widow confronted Cheney, both Dick & daughter Liz would take her in back, with the help of his ‘security detail’ and feast on her life force, kind of like Wraiths do in the Stargate series.

    @Derf: Go fuck yourself Troll.

  35. 35.

    Derf

    @kindness: I can feel the luv flowing from your keyboard. Hugs and kisses my little furry groupie.

    PS: Definition of a troll is the poster immediately before this post…..mmmok. Tomorrows less will be how to wipe your ass with toilet paper. Better study hard.

  37. 37.

    Roger Moore

    @Steve:

    Derf is just an idiot who doesn’t realize it.

    No, he’s not just an idiot. He’s also an obnoxious and repetitive troll. Best not to feed him anything except pie.

  40. 40.

    jwest

    Steve,

    No spoof. When it comes to Dick Cheney, I’m his biggest fan. Read the link and bask in the awesomeness that is Cheney. Here’s a sample:

    1 While on a sex-spree in a Tijuana whorehouse, Dick Cheney used a live cougar as a condom.

    The bodycount was fourteen Mexican whores and one cougar.

    In Tijuana, they refer to this as “The Night of the Sodomizing Cougar-Man.”

    Dick Cheney refers to it as “last Thursday.”

    http://minx.cc/?post=311434
    (this is the most linked to post and comments at AofS)

  41. 41.

    Derf

    @Steve: Anything to distract from the fact your Cole voted for Bush/Cheney twice. Funny how those pesky facts get in the way of your distractions.

  43. 43.

    russell

    what more can be said about the man

    when they finally put him in the ground / I’ll stand there laughing and tramp the dirt down

  44. 44.

    jim filyaw

    the internet will be the sole exposure i have to this ‘work’. i’ve read at least a dozen reviews and if i were a self-imagined patriot and statesman and got those kinds of responses to my autobiography, i’d seriously consider how i’d like the weather in timbuctu. i refuse to pick up a copy of the book in the library or at a bookstore as i have an innate revulsion at handling excrement.

  45. 45.

    jim filyaw

    btw. i’d suggest to those harridans who are his offspring that they’d be well advised to bury this lump of dung in an ‘undisclosed location.’ otherwise, what a lot of us will place on his grave won’t pass for flowers.

  46. 46.

    Derf

    @Steve: What about the Pie Steve? For the love of god….the pie. That is all you have to say and tap your toes twice and you will be back in Kansas in no time.

    Hurry up and use your ‘pie’ because your obsession over me is frankly getting quite creepy. Fame does have it’s downsides.

  47. 47.

    licensed to kill time

    The thing about derr-derr-DerffreD is that he was apparently so gobsmacked by his discovery of Cole’s history that it induced a sort of brainlock that compels him to repeat as startling revelation facts that the denizens of this blog have known for donkey’s years.

    So every utterance of his is a sort of Hee-Haw.

  49. 49.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Paul in KY:

    Yeah, you’re right. I’m thinking that Julius Streicher would have been a better example.

    Frank actually felt remorse for his crimes.

  51. 51.

    Rihilism

    You know, we had a perfectly lovely time coming up with alternative names for Mooseferatu’s movie.

    Cole, how’s about a thread for alternate names for Darth Vadar’s new “memoir”. No great ideas myself yet, but thinkin’ “The Great Ratsby”, or “As I Lie You’re Dyin'” or “I, Dick” for those Asimov fans among us…

  52. 52.

    Rihilism

    @jwest: Puuulleeease, the entire world’s supply of ED meds wouldn’t be sufficient to cause his shriveled manhood to tumesce…

  53. 53.

    TenguPhule

    Cheney is a monster, yes. But he’s a hugely successful monster:

    And the only way to rectify this is for him, his wife and all of his daughters to die horrible bloody deaths at the hands of Iraqis or Afghanis or any other group that they’ve shat on during the Reign of Error.

  54. 54.

    TenguPhule

    Derf is just an idiot who doesn’t realize it. failed basic math, economics and other school subjects before dropping out of high school.

    Let’s face it, dude just can’t add.

  55. 55.

    El Cid

    We should all feel bad for poor Colin Powell, who just thought it was the right thing to do to wave a salt shaker at the UN in order to act like the US gave the slightest shit about UN approval to blow apart the Iraqi nation-state, and later on had a sad face about it.

  56. 56.

    El Cid

    @TenguPhule: I don’t know; it might be a more horrible fate for him to be locked in a room and watch as all the companies and funds he’s got his dirty Kissinger-y hands in go down the drain, dollar by dollar, along with every penny he had with them.

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