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Cheney Goes on CNN and Acts Like a Dick
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astrosfan90
Golden Member
Blitzer really didn't exactly come out swinging, either. He very meekly stands up to Cheney and allows himself to be railroaded on the answer, and then doesn't come back with anything on topic, instead leaving the course for something entirely different, and ends up sucking up entirely and then awkwardly trying to back out of it. It's pretty weak on his part, he genuinely let himself be cowed by Cheney.
tomywishbone
Golden Member
Why does anyone even interview cheney? It's just one lie after another. What a complete waste of time & video tape.
Thump553
Lifer
I think Blitzer respectfully stood his ground on that question.
As for Cheney's response, the cynical part of me thinks he was using his barely controlled fury type response to show he had as much cajones as Bill Clinton. The more charitable part of me agrees with Cheney that his daughter's decision to have a child really is not a newsworthy event.
A more proper question would have been how Cheney can square his government's practice of enforcing "Christian" (quotation marks intentional) values upon the USA with his daughter's decision and practices.
As for Cheney's response, the cynical part of me thinks he was using his barely controlled fury type response to show he had as much cajones as Bill Clinton. The more charitable part of me agrees with Cheney that his daughter's decision to have a child really is not a newsworthy event.
A more proper question would have been how Cheney can square his government's practice of enforcing "Christian" (quotation marks intentional) values upon the USA with his daughter's decision and practices.
DealMonkey
Lifer
As I pointed out in a different, but related thread, the popularity (or lack thereof) of Cheney and Bush reflect poorly on the Republican Party as a whole. That's the point you seem to be constantly missing. Ignoring public opinion sounds good on paper, but as the highest elected Republicans in the land, what they do reflects good or bad on other Republicans. Ignore public opinion at your own peril and hey - good luck in 2008 - you'll need it.
OrByte
Diamond Member
HA! you want to bag on Red Dawn over meaningless posts!??! dude...no one can come CLOSE to matching you when it comes to meaningless posts.
as for the OP. Cheney could have made up some PR ground over "protecting" the rights of his families privacy, Blitzer totally stumbled all over that subject. But it was a lost opportunity the moment he started to glare at Blitzer. Come on, at least PRETEND you can be human you dumb @ss!!
trenchfoot
Lifer
after watching cheney's body and face language, as well as listening to him speak, i feel he is the perfect guy to man a customer service and returns desk at a local walmart superstore. he's got it all, and then some.
to his quote that huge successes were had in iraq, i'm sure dick-the-*rick was referring to the huge amounts of cash he and his friends over at halliburtion have made since they started this war of fun and profit.
to the question of how honest, sincere and trustworthy he is, i think the only person that i know of that exceeds him in failing at that these qualities is his boss, with the car salesman who sold me my first fourth-hand clunker way way way behind of both of them.
but what does he care...i'm sure he's quite content with and perhaps even pleasantly surprised at how pleasingly plump his portfolio has gotten from the exploitation of his current position as VP, with the thought in mind that usually, it's not the front man (bush) that gets a bigger slice of the action.
it's what you get when you let arrogant self-righteous politically corrupted businessmen spun off from large corporations run the country and especially the military.
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to his quote that huge successes were had in iraq, i'm sure dick-the-*rick was referring to the huge amounts of cash he and his friends over at halliburtion have made since they started this war of fun and profit.
to the question of how honest, sincere and trustworthy he is, i think the only person that i know of that exceeds him in failing at that these qualities is his boss, with the car salesman who sold me my first fourth-hand clunker way way way behind of both of them.
but what does he care...i'm sure he's quite content with and perhaps even pleasantly surprised at how pleasingly plump his portfolio has gotten from the exploitation of his current position as VP, with the thought in mind that usually, it's not the front man (bush) that gets a bigger slice of the action.
it's what you get when you let arrogant self-righteous politically corrupted businessmen spun off from large corporations run the country and especially the military.
edit - grammar
DealMonkey
Lifer
You should be banned for life merely on the audacity of your hypocrisy. :laugh: LOL@U!
ProfJohn
Lifer
Let's think here deal.
Just because the statement came from focus on the family does not mean it is an appropriate question to ask the man. What does his daughter have to do with how he does his job as VP?
Look at the reaction to the Obama went to a madrassa mess. The story came from the Clinton's, and yet everyone jumped up and down and blamed Fox and Insight. "How dare they make they make that type of statement!"
Now why is it wrong for Fox and Insight to repeat a story that comes from the Hillary Camp, but it is ok for CNN to ask a question from Focus on the Family? If the question/charge is out of line, then it is out of line, its source should be meaningless.
What would the reaction be if some liberal group posted a statement ala "Chelsea Clinton says she will never marry because of her parents relationship" and someone asked Hillary a question based on that statement. Would that excuse the question?
BTW: The grandchild question was out of line. No reason to ask it. In the midst of the impeachment scandal People magazine wrote a story about Chelsea and the Clinton?s responded with this statement: "We deeply regret and are profoundly saddened by the decision of People magazine to print a cover story featuring our daughter Chelsea,"
The family of the President and VP should be left alone. Unless there is a question of ethics or corruption, neither of which occur in this Cheney question.
well said. Kudos to Cheney for putting Wolf in his place. It was hilarious watching Wolf blubbering, trying to come up with something to say, and of course, trying to pull back the reins at the end by saying "let's wind up on a sof-"
of course, the lib who recorded that cut that end part out.
Mean MrMustard
Diamond Member
First we had Baghdad Bob.
Now we have DC Dick.
Now we have DC Dick.
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