Cheney "Aggravated" By New York Times Pulitzer

Bill Bennett's fawn-tastic Morning In America exit interview with Dick Cheney is filled with precisely the sort of ass-kissing and side-stepping you'd expect from this pair of glad-handing, decrepit yobbos. It contains goopy pillow talk about fly-fishing and Cheney's high dudgeon over Obama's plan to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prisons -- the Bush Administration's rarefied monument to bizarro justice, where the guilty never stand trial and the innocent remain detained forever. At the end of it, you'll be left with the same sort of question you may have had after reading Stephen Hayes' man-on-Cheney BDSM classic. Nevertheless, I'd highlight this moment for future remembrance:

CHENEY: We get into the whole area, for example, the Terrorist Surveillance Program --

BENNETT: Right, the perfect example.

CHENEY: Great example; important program, allows us to intercept communications from terrorists coming in to the United States, and a program we put in place using presidential authority. And it's worked. It's really given us some very, very good intelligence. Well, certain key members of Congress were briefed on that program from the very beginning. I used to preside over those briefings in my office with the chairman and ranking member of the House and Senate on the intelligence committees, for example, or on one occasion the entire congressional leadership down in the Situation Room in the West Wing.

What happened then was they had the information we had, they knew how we were doing it, they knew what we were producing through that process. But then when -- Nancy Pelosi, for example, was part of that group. But then it became public. The New York Times broke the story I think in December of '05, won the Pulitzer for it, which always aggravated me.

Hey, Dick, I got to tell you, it always aggravated me that the Times won a Pulitzer for that, too! Mainly because my basic rights are so well elucidated by the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States that it shouldn't require journalistic excellence to remind people that, yes, THEY EXIST. I guess we all have our own cross to bear.

Comments

[Turnip]

Good.

[Roxanna]

When I saw Jim Lehrer asking Cheney question after question in which he responded in denial without any regrets or possible mistakes made.. ..... I said when will this "Wasted Interview" be over with this lying sociopath ?

Cheney is blind to all the pain he has caused and will continue to live thus in isolation. History will show Cheney to be one of the Most Corrupted Individuals we have every had in Congress.

[solarian]

wonder what service bennett did off camera

[johnnyjust]

Since it was all common knowledge, winning a prize of any sort for reporting it is a bit idiotic.

Be like winning the Pulitzer for reporting the basketball scores. "Lakers won? Give that man the prize!"

Taints an already tainted award.

[jamesdaddio]

So sad to see Jim Leher being slapped around with lie after lie by Dick Cheney a sad day for the press and a sad day for america. Does Cheney really believe what he is saying hold this people accountable please 4400 lives were worth this mess I don't think so. This is much worse than Vietnam and will never be forgotten.

[CATO90025]

Aggravated­(Sic)--how about annoyed--why vulgarize the English language?

[BassguyGG]

Oh, please. What do you expect from a bunch of paid toadies? You should have heard him on Hannity the other day! Hannity was falling all over himself fawning all over the Dickster. After two segments of the most sickening groveling you just wanted to say, "Enough! Just unzip him and finish him off already!"

Utterly nauseating, and it truly made me yearn for the reinstatemetnt of the Fairness Doctrine so all these miscreants could be put out of business. Oh what a wonderful world it would be without the haters like Rush, Mark Levine, Monica Crowley and of course the aforementioned Hannity. It's pretty sad when the most "reality-based" thinker on WABC-AM is Curtis Sliwa, who in his own way is more of a hero than any of the other miscreants.

[demfriend]

I would for one time, like to thank the person wo chose the picture of Cheney for this post!!! It truly says without any words written what Cheney is about and who he really is, a mean and a hate filled man who has notone iota of regard for the printed press nor those who write it! I look back and wish the media had been onto the Bush/Cheney group from the start and wonder if the media had been doing the job then what might be different now. But past is what it is and we do now have people aking the questions and maybe right will come of it... Both Bush and Cheney deserve to have the truth written about them now and forever. What they are leavng behind is the worst we have seen in our country and if the media doesn't tell the truth, the real stories it can happen again and we might not survive as a country if another Bush makes it to the top.

[inorbit]

Jon Stewart always says that everytime Cheney walks past a plant and brushes up against it - it dies.

I believe that.

[lesterbud]

"Cheney aggravated by loose stool this morning - prefers them to put up a fight and hurt a bit coming out."

[Sammy00400]

Great picture of Cheney.

[SpaghettyIrish]

May this horrible excuse for nearly a man see the inside of a SuperMax.

[SENATORCALLENBOWE]

U THINK HIS THUMB WOULD BE TIRED FROM PRESSING THE RED BUTTON :)

[chaz]

Good bye and good riddance.

[cloudmaker]

I'm sure Dick thinks he got off scot-free despite all his missteps. But I
suspect that once Obama has the reins of power tightly in his grip, he
will see that justice is done. America cannot allow criminals to avoid
retribution no matter how high their position, or former position.