Dick Cheney Book: Reactions To The Vice President's Memoir 'In My Time' (PHOTOS)

Dick Cheney's new memoir has been making waves since the former vice president first signed a multi-million dollar publishing deal with Simon & Schuster in 2009. And, while discussing the memoir with NBC's Jamie Gangel, Cheney said there would "be heads exploding all over Washington" upon its release.

A slideshow of some of the best reactions to Cheney's book, from critics, pundits, and even some of Cheney's political peers, is below.

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In a video posted to his YouTube channel on Wednesday, Donald Trump criticizes Cheney for writing a book that is "very, very angry and nasty." "There's no question, this is not a happy camper," Trump says in the video. Trump disapproves of what Cheney wrote about President Bush and Colin Powell, and he even accuses the former vice president of lying in his memoir. "When asked about Colin Powell's version [of certain events], Cheney said, 'Well, that's the way I remember it,'" Trump says. "Well when somebody says that, to me, that means they're lying." He has more harsh words for Cheney, addressing both the book and Cheney's time in office. "I didn't like Cheney as vice president. I don't like him now," he says. "I don't like people that rat out everybody like he's doing in the book."

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In a video posted to his YouTube channel on Wednesday, Donald Trump criticizes Cheney for writing a book that is "very, very angry and nasty."

"There's no question, this is not a happy camper," Trump says in the video.

Trump disapproves of what Cheney wrote about President Bush and Colin Powell, and he even accuses the former vice president of lying in his memoir.

"When asked about Colin Powell's version [of certain events], Cheney said, 'Well, that's the way I remember it,'" Trump says. "Well when somebody says that, to me, that means they're lying."

He has more harsh words for Cheney, addressing both the book and Cheney's time in office.

"I didn't like Cheney as vice president. I don't like him now," he says. "I don't like people that rat out everybody like he's doing in the book."

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[worldpeas88]

11:00 PM on 09/16/2011

I am boycotting Kroger stores until they stop selling Dick Cheney's book, In My Time.

[John Shuck]

07:58 AM on 09/06/2011

One thing for sure, no surprised here. Cheney sticks to what he knows. As a lamprey sticks to what it knows.

[trbilbo]

03:30 AM on 09/05/2011

So lets see.... Trump says he didn't like Cheney THEN and doesn't like him now as Huff and Puff uses Donald to make a critical review of one man's prespective of how things happened while this same man (NOW viewed by ALL critics as the most influential Vice President in this nations history) balanced the most tumultous and politically fragile time in the last 40 years of US History as the personal friend and yet independent Vice Presidential analysts the President had SOUGHT when asking him to join him.
Meaning... he did exaclty what was asked of him.... he did it with amazing decisiveness.... never oversteped or overshadowed a final Presidential decision..... writes a book telling HIS perspective on how things happened and how differently he had wished they happened..... History.... from a personal reality perspective.... and somehow we are to give a good d*&^ what the MASTER of fluff reality programming believes about this.
Why does such trivial, pointless so called NEWS or reporting keep making the 'headlines' here. No wait..... this is the Huff and Puff. The anti-christ of real news media.... I withdraw my question.
Trummp needs a real job.... one in which he makes money..employs people... and we never have to see his bad hair on "political news' again. PLEASE make it so.

[Jon106]

11:35 PM on 09/04/2011

Why did he not speech up during his time as Vice President? Is he talking now because Bush failed to cut him in on the spoils of war? View documentary titled “Bush Family Fortune, The Best Democracy Money can Buy”. After viewing this documentary, you will know the true meaning of, “to win at all cost”.

[trbilbo]

03:32 AM on 09/05/2011

That was not a documentary.... has since been debunked as factless. Read Harvard review and Pembroke.... many many made up so called facts to lead teh naive to a conclusion or should we say assumption. Seems it still works.... but will give you teh benefit of teh doubt after you research teh authors and REAL reviews of that work of PULP fiction.

[Larry Richardson]

10:57 PM on 09/04/2011

i wouldn't cross the street to read that crraapp

[Blueid1]

10:47 PM on 09/04/2011

Of course he is unrepentant...the way he tells it...he rewrote the events of his time in office from the same place Bachmann wrote her last speech, just out side of Denial USA. It is a place all good GOPers go to rest.....way out there.. outstanding in their fields, respectively. It really chokes me up...the EMT kind of chokes me up.

[trbilbo]

03:35 AM on 09/05/2011

evidently not hard enough as you still had a breathe for sarcasm rather than a post.
and yes... I've made three... with facts and data. Plz try again.
Interested to hear an intelligent perspective to generate thought.
No wait..... this is the Huff and Puff... never mind.

[Blueid1]

10:54 AM on 09/05/2011

Thanks for allowing me my opinion and my right to voice it....the interviews with Mr. Cheney are devoid of comprehensive information that accurately describes the events from 2000 through 2009. The facts are distorted, truth is twisted just as his sense of right and wrong. There infractions are to numerous to list here. I'd have to write a book. Just remember trbilbo Mr. Cheney is "An American First, a politician second, spoken like a true American Politician" The man raped this country and lied at every turn to further his monetary gain. To begin he received over $500,000 from Halliburton for "services rendered" in 2002. Good place for you to start your investigation.

[Blknight96]

10:29 PM on 09/04/2011

Just got this off of twitter:

@ionank Frank O'Callaghan
@thenation Naomi Klein is arrested? But Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are not? Tell a truth, get locked up. Lie to start a war, get a book tour!

[trbilbo]

09:17 PM on 09/07/2011

When do we get to sign yours?

[joemensa]

09:57 PM on 09/04/2011

Does Donald Trump like anyone...or have good words for anyone?...its all negative, negative, negative with him...is he that must of an insecure egomaniac?

[Dani09]

09:41 PM on 09/04/2011

Whenever I see Cheney's "snarl," I am reminded of Jon Stewart's imitation of it. Thank goodness there's at least a visual antidote.

[joemensa]

09:37 PM on 09/04/2011

I like anyone who pisses of any politician...why to go Cheney

[sully36]

09:17 PM on 09/04/2011

Love him or hate him, and I know most on this site hate him. But I have watched a number of his current interviews. He tells it like he sees it and does not mince words. This guy has served our country for a number of years in numerous important jobs and is five steps ahead of the Obama's of this world. I for one think he is a " Great American" IM done, so pile on! LOL!

[agb100]

09:14 PM on 09/04/2011

So NBC reports that Cheney is unrepentant. So, should he be repentant and why?

Huffington doesn't like Cheney's demeanor. More important is, does Cheney like Huffington's demeanor?

There were, after all, no Saddam-era (yellowcake) WDMs in Iraq, the subject of Joe Wilson's testimony about how BUSH LIED. Okay. Let's see who it was exactly who lied, Bush-Chimp-Hitler-Cheney, or Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama?:

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/News/2008/7/Pages/Cameco-Scoops-550t-of-Yellowcake-in-Secret-Deal.aspx

http://articles.cnn.com/2008-07-07/us/iraq.uranium_1_yellowcake-uranium-cameco?_s=PM:UShttp://articles.cnn.com/2008-07-07/us/iraq.uranium_1_yellowcake-uranium-cameco?_s=PM:US

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/u/uraniumyellowcake.htm

[trbilbo]

09:27 PM on 09/07/2011

The Obama's third party purchase and export of Sadam's Yellow cake will soon be so very public and their duplicity in smearing Bush's admin will pale in the depths of Subversion, and plain filthy two faced Lies the current Sociopath in Chief has engage din.
Yup... Sadam's Yellow Cake was real... still is... being bought by a Canadian company at the 'request' of the Obama adminsitration and being shipped out to Canada for dispersal on othe rmarkets (Knowing how corrupt Obama is I wouldn't be surprised to find it going to China).
Kennedy cannnot lie anymore.... but he cannot cover those lies he told any more either.
Pelosi's two faced lying is such an ingrained character trait she will likely soon deny she IS Pelosi...... But Dorothy and Toto will always know.
To present data and truth today that is at odds with the anointed is to be made fun of, abused, called a liar and a traitor or worse... a terrorist. But get caught covertly moving the yellow cake from a foreign country to perpetuate a lie.... and not a single MSNBC, CNN, CBS, NEw York times mention to the blind masses that listen and read that tripe.
What a truly SAD time we live in...

[Blueid1]

10:40 PM on 09/07/2011

There was yellow cake found yes. this was the statement from AP:
While yellowcake alone is not considered potent enough for a so-called "dirty bomb" — a conventional explosive that disperses radioactive material — it could stir widespread panic if incorporated in a blast. Yellowcake also can be enriched for use in reactors and, at higher levels, nuclear weapons using sophisticated equipment.
It wasn't as significant as you seem to believe. There were no WMD....NONE
Some of the statements in Cheney's book conflicts with Powel ol' GWB, Ms. Rice, The man is a liar and has been since the begining. He received, "for services rendered" in 1998. $500 g's in 2002 and continued to receive payments from that corp maybe because of the spoon feed gov contracts from which everyone got wealthy? Like you said never mind. You will never be able to see the trickery and deception used by this man because O'Reilly us bouncing off the walls in your head. I give up as well...they don't make hearing aids for brick walls.

[FreedomMan]

08:31 PM on 09/04/2011

Heads exploding in the desert.....Fantasy
Take Cheney and all the rest of those right wing Republicans and put them on a few hundred buses and drive them out to a desolate desert, bird country, give them each a tent, a shotgun (with plenty of ammo), truckloads of whiskey and beer. Be sure they have shortages of birds, food and water and no way to walk out to civilization (100 miles) in 100 degree desert heat.
The survivors will then be rescueded by bus in 30 days.

[trbilbo]

09:28 PM on 09/07/2011

Buses driven by union drivers making over $100K a year with lifetime medical benefits we middle Americans are sick of paying for.
Grow up.

[Mary P Duffy]

07:52 PM on 09/04/2011

The Huff Post does not like Dick Cheney and huis book- wow, am I ever surprised...NOT. This is a five star home of the liberal biased media.
Does anyone know where I can go yo hear or read someone REPORT THE NEWS and not BE THE NEWS?

[rghbiker]

08:18 PM on 09/04/2011

Yes, that would be Faux News...unfair and imbalanced.

[DJMarian]

08:48 PM on 09/04/2011

Try picking up a comic, Cheney goes by the name The Penguin but it was a chronicle of his life before government.

[Sanarae Brachelle]

07:34 PM on 09/04/2011

This man has proved it for once and for all he is a "COWARD AND BULLY" THE WORST MISTAKE PRESIDENT BUSH EVER MADE!!!!! I might disagree with some of the choices President Bush made but for this so called man to write this book not about his role of course but he is going to throw everyone else under the truck except himself, again "COWARD AND BULLY"

[FreedomMan]

08:49 PM on 09/04/2011

Just about everything Bush, Jr... did was a mistake for the average American and we the majority of American People..
Cheney was no exception to Bush's incompetences and foolhardiness.

[YOKEL13]

01:02 AM on 09/05/2011

I can't say that Cheney was incompetent; his agenda was certainly different from mine.

[trbilbo]

09:59 PM on 09/07/2011

The average American... the Majority of Americans... Elected him twice... and proud of it. But I am sure the Kool Aid drinkers here.... and thos elast two MSNBC viewers and NY Times subscibers will stroke you ego and support the allusions you have created for each other to be happy. READ the Congressional Record..... his book is right, real.... and he WILL be (as he is today) remembered as the strongest Vice President America has ever had.