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

[rabiddog6708]

I love the photo accompanying the thread....­..Cheney is definitely warm and lovable in it. Probably should send it out on his Christmas cards.

[sueinmn]

Nasty man!

[Lilly06]

I didn't know anyone even paid attention to Cheney anymore.

[Truby]

Anything that aggravates him must be good.

[GJR227]

Anything that would hold him accountable for these past 8 years him even better.

[Nikola Tesla]

What a Yob.

[Annieke]

Reminds my of a story my grandmother told me a few weeks before she died.

Her hearing was getting less and less and she knew she was dying (only a few more weeks left). She wanted to call one of her cousins in the US to say goodbye.

She called the cousin but instead got a recording which she didn't understand because her hearing was impaired (she had a university degree and spoke perfect English). Apparently the voice on the recorder said something about all conversations being recorded and if she did not object she had to push a button. My grandmother didn't hear it correctly and so didn't push the button. The connection was cancelled.

This happened four times during that day. Two days later she told me and I was able to make the call for her, push the right buttons and so the connection was made so my grandmother was able to say goodbye to her cousin.

Now I wonder why the US government wants to tape recordings to the house of an 85-year old woman who has lived in the States since 1948, has raised four children (one of them actually joined the US Army, served in Vietnam and got a Purple Heart after cathing a bullet for one of his buddies), never got in trouble with the law.

I guess that taping her phone calls with her 87-year old cousin from The Netherlands really helped the keep the US safe.

Please!

[grf67]

cheney is a criminal. Who cares what he thinks?

[godhelpusall]

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a. a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor or, esp., a felony
b. a person who has failed at a particular activity
c. someone or something that is marked by consistently or thoroughly bad quality, performance, etc.

[flossophy]

Ja$on Link-ins..­. you're a completely ir-re-spon-sible jour-nal-ist. You're simply fan-ning the fl-ames of a young group of people who have been told to be-lieve that Ch-eney is the root of all e-vil.

We've seen this happen before in soc-ieties­... fortunately, there were enough reasonable people to push your brand of rhet-oric out to the ex-tremities.

But go have your fun... soon you'll be out of boogie-men.

I wonder what you'll think of the O, if he continues the de-tai-nment policies of W & his mini-ons?

[SKonnery]

No one told us to believe anything, the facts indicate otherwise.

[bruster55]

Sir, You have it incorrect.
Republicans have to be told how to think.
Democrats think for themselves

[hamchunk]

I think the Democratic members of the Obama Self-Deluded Grand Admiration Society have some sort of group-think that does not suggest "thinking for themselves".

[HST]

Cheney "Aggravated" By New York Times Pulitzer


Good.

[filo]

All together now..1...2­...3....AW­Wwwwwwww !

[FreedomBeforeDemocracy]

"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" Unfortunately, these were eradicated when progressives got rid of the 10th, 9th, 2nd, and 1st. Once they started ignoring parts of the constitution, the whole thing went up in smoke.

[flossophy]

nicely put.

Budding Prog-gressives, take note of this... the history of your ideology involved stretching and bending the constitution to conform to your political agenda.

It's called 'rule of law'

not

'rule of how I'd like the law to be'

[SKonnery]

Why do repub licans take pride in being ignorant?

[FreeRange]

oh no - the ignore ant trolls have arrived

[CaliTLC]

Six More Days.

[hortonhearsawho2]

Average joe...Aver­age D.iC....k

[lunchlady]

Is this the guy who was saying that he's actually lovable in real life? Imagine having a disagreement over breakfast with this guy and him sneering like that.
An ankle holster might be a good idea. I saw a pink one at a gun show recently, along with a gun with a nice pink handgrip.

[hortonhearsawho2]

Farkin Cork Sorker....