What's so bad about Dick Cheney?

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People seem to hate this guy. Why exactly?

― trappist monkey, Friday, 28 October 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

pure evil.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

also his trouser monster shames us all.

― strongo hulkington's ghost (dubplatestyle), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

It's all because of Lynn Cheney actually.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

He has 'integrity' in that he tries much less hard than everyone else in that gang to pretend he's not a fuckface.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:12 (twenty years ago)

The least-enjoyed VP since Agnew. Plus he's not attractive.

― andy --, Friday, 28 October 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

From an entertainment perspective, Spiro and Dick are the best recent VPs.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)

c'mon, even his ol' buddy brent scowcroft doesn't like him anymore.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

-big on torture
-not too big on the whole "open government" thing
-monster horsecock threatens us all, as jess said
-one of the main PNAC guys i.e. the whole "get freedom and democracy NOW or we'll blast you in the fucking face" crowd

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yeah, Wilkerson either.

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

That Scowcroft profile in the New Yorker was pretty great.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

i thot it was just ok, didn't really tell me much i didn't know. and wasn't always flattering to ol' brent (who is kind of a douchebag, truth be told - still better than anybody on dubya's foreign policy team, which ain't saying much).

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

Why is Cheney hated? Better question: What's to love?

― elmo (allocryptic), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

What's to love?

hmmm. well, he hasn't done the "open & public denunciation" of his lesbian daughter like Alan Keyes did.

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

Lewis Black on meeting Dick Cheney: "I've never stood so close to pure evil."

― richard wood johnson, Friday, 28 October 2005 17:31 (twenty years ago)

oh! and he's DEFINITELY a guy who'll hook a bro up. Defense contracts? Oil drilling rights? Favorable energy policy? No prob, he'll take good care of ya.

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

He's just like TV's Becker!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

well, he hasn't done the "open & public denunciation" of his lesbian daughter like Alan Keyes did.

I suppose, but Mary Cheney sure did re-closet herself pretty quickly during her dad's VP run, and after being a professional lesbian for Coors, no less.

― elmo (allocryptic), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:41 (twenty years ago)

one wonders if she got free beer, at least

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

AND TWINS

― maura (maura), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

(sorry couldn't resist)

― maura (maura), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

rofl

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

does he remind anyone else of the penguin?

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

He's scary. Watching the VP debates, I thought he was a much more charismatic and dangerous (possible) leader than Dubya (and made Edwards look like an ambulance-chasing doofus).

― Are You Nomar? (miloaukerman), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

I admire his ability to arrogantly double-talk his way through anything, yet for that same reason I want to punch his throat.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

I can do Lewis Black one better: John Ashcroft lives three doors down from me.

The Devil lives in Rosslyn, people! ROSSLYN!!!!

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

Which one IS his anyway? I mean they're all identical so describing it is impossible, but I have dibs on the one that has the ADT sign prominently displayed.

― Allyzay knows a little German (allyzay), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Dick has a bit of a growly jaw thing going:

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20051028/capt.gasm10210281812.cheney_leak_investigation_gasm102.jpg?x=380&y=248&sig=4v9KzX.ksXWGCvYIbAbyQw--

contrasted with this:

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/afp/20051028/capt.sge.agf02.281005003443.photo01.photo.default-372x275.jpg?x=372&y=275&sig=06tGMmYYKh4DjkFKkNd5SQ--

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/6817/checkoutthemjaws1oq.jpg
(in happier, better-sideburned days)

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

http://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/bushbeat/archive/images/cheney,-bill-thomas-ss.jpg http://pekingduck.org/archives/cheney.gun.jpg

http://www.gregkucera.com/images/newpo_dick_cheney.jpg

I had this (unedited) card! One of my friends somehow got a box of Desert Storm cards, gave me one. oh boy.

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 28 October 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7076907.stm

― pfunkboy, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

"But that's obviously a matter they've got to resolve for themselves." <-- actual funniest bit

― wanko ergo sum, Saturday, 3 November 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

Even dubya would never have made that kind of mistake..

― pfunkboy, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

erm yes he would. not a world-shattering error really, from this guy.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

GRECIANS, dude.

― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 4 November 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

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yeah, Wilkerson either.

-- kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 28 October 2005 17:25

wow how prescient

― Frogman Henry, Sunday, 4 November 2007 01:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://summitlh.com/visualize/presidency/cheney-angels.jpg

― wanko ergo sum, Sunday, 4 November 2007 01:59 (eighteen years ago)

five months pass...

http://kevin.vox.com/library/post/post.html

― Herman G. Neuname, Saturday, 19 April 2008 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

seven months pass...

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/465/dc2fw0.jpg
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/1392/dc1zj4.jpg

― sheepie (libcrypt), Friday, 28 November 2008 21:19 (seventeen years ago)

too bad #2 won the contest for his soul

― rent, Friday, 28 November 2008 21:26 (seventeen years ago)

What we see here is a man who is not accustomed to smiling.

― Aimless, Friday, 28 November 2008 23:39 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, I think Cheney's left side didn't mind smiling. The zombie side, however, controls the Cheney.

― sheepie (libcrypt), Saturday, 29 November 2008 00:40 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Because when you have nothing better to do...

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:10 (sixteen years ago)

Further 'who can say?':

http://marcovilla.instablogs.com/entry/cheney-in-saudi-arabia-but-why/

http://www.examiner.com/x-39852-DC-RNC-Examiner~y2010m5d3-Cheney-In-Saudi-Arabia-Whats-Being-Planned

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:13 (sixteen years ago)

probably whoring for some sector of the m-i complex

i'd like to see a breakdown of his financial interests

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

King Abdullah has the entire Saudi treasury at his disposal, not to mention a personal fortune of a magnitude hard to fathom. All we don't know about this meeting is exactly what sleezy favor Cheney was whoring after.

― Aimless, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:34 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.tnr.com/blog/william-galston/forget-offshore-drilling-until-we-get-some-answers

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:46 (sixteen years ago)

yeah pretty obvious what Cheney would be doing there imho. whoring for the oil industry.

― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 17:50 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/26/books/dick-cheney-tells-his-side-in-memoir-in-my-time-review.html

― buzza, Thursday, 25 August 2011 22:59 (fourteen years ago)

he spent several weeks unconscious in 2010 after heart surgery.

― buzza, Thursday, 25 August 2011 23:02 (fourteen years ago)

they comprise the three best chapters

― zvookster, Friday, 26 August 2011 04:01 (fourteen years ago)

he spent several weeks unconscious in 2010 after heart surgery. = lay dormant after a brief interruption in the supply of fresh baby meat

― satisfying punishment for that thing he said about lesbians (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 August 2011 15:48 (fourteen years ago)

six months pass...

what's so bad? his heart

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57403969-503544/dick-cheney-receives-heart-transplant/

cue up the "heartless" "he had a heart?" etc etc

― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Sunday, 25 March 2012 01:14 (fourteen years ago)

wonder what deserving young heart patient he stole that one from

― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Sunday, 25 March 2012 01:39 (fourteen years ago)

well said

― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 25 March 2012 02:16 (fourteen years ago)

this heart will be nonpartisan and endorse his true protege on trashing civil liberties and citizen assassination

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:45 (fourteen years ago)

Is it Easter already?

― Nicholas Pokémon (silby), Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:45 (fourteen years ago)

this is a philosophical thread, not a political one.

― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:51 (fourteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

Has anyone seen the Showtime doc about Cheney? Slate reviews it here http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/01/23/the_world_according_to_dick_cheney_reviewed_a_damning_surprising_documentary.html
I saw Cutler on Daily Show last week and it has kinda been stuck in the back of my mind

you can watch the trailer here http://www.sho.com/sho/reality-docs/titles/3370771/the-world-according-to-dick-cheney#/index

in the interview cutler says that the only question cheney didn't have a thorough prepared answer for was "what's the worst part of dick cheney"

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 4 March 2013 14:56 (thirteen years ago)

should have said his heart, honestly

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, 4 March 2013 14:57 (thirteen years ago)

a la gukbe's post from 11 months ago.

easy way to deflect the question, get a couple chuckles, gain some sympathy

― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Monday, 4 March 2013 14:58 (thirteen years ago)

i was thinking the same thing, and he DIDN'T! he had no answer! that's why i brought it up.

"my aim?" would be another chucklebutt answer that he failed to come up with

― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 4 March 2013 15:00 (thirteen years ago)

seven months pass...

a "sentimental night" with the gang

Senator Joe Lieberman “said something to the effect that it’s nice that we’re all here at the Plaza instead of in cages after some war crimes trial,” recalled one person who was there.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/waterboarding-is-a-big-joke-at-cheney-roast

― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 17:15 (twelve years ago)

Dead? Oh right, carry on...

― Tommy McTommy (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 17:25 (twelve years ago)

one month passes...

I wonder what the Cheney family holiday season is going to be like now that there is a public rift in the family.

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 00:20 (twelve years ago)

i don't think mary will be home for ~~the holidays~~ christmas

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 00:21 (twelve years ago)

you think she'll come home for thanksgiving? maybe they're each getting a cheney family holiday.

― sweat pea (La Lechera), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 00:23 (twelve years ago)

maybe i can get mary to cat-sit for me

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 19 November 2013 00:40 (twelve years ago)

have no use for them

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 November 2013 00:42 (twelve years ago)

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