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- Alheithinn, on 03/17/2009, -13/+90LOL insufficient reverence for a war criminal? Are they kidding? This man has had absolutely NO regard for our Constitution or our civil rights, or for international law. He deserves the same consideration as a cockroach. He's lucky he is not already in prison, and should be happy with that.
- Seminarian, on 03/17/2009, -9/+85I've got to hand it to the Greek Chorus supporting the GOP at every turn, they have cojones, and they are consistent. But do they really think people are stupid enough to notice that Cheney himself was being deeply disrespectful of a sitting president in the remarks that he made? They lost the election! They lost the election because the voters wanted to take the country in a new direction! It's perfectly appropriate for the White House to compare Cheney to Limbaugh, and to be sarcastic about his supposedly sterling track record.
- ichbinladen, on 03/17/2009, -6/+60Where was Chuck Todd or John King when Cheney and his little ***** puppet Bush were tearing this country asunder? Spare us your righteous indignation, phony journalists.
- PoizonFrog, on 03/17/2009, -9/+60Yeah...if anybody had ever talked about Hitler that way, they'd have been tortured or killed.
- Firstdaughter, on 03/18/2009, -5/+45His real name is Richard? Wow all this time I've just been calling him DICK...
/s - mrkcohen, on 03/17/2009, -12/+46GG spot on as usual about the legacy media.
Especially a brown-nosing fanboy like John King, but the sad, simple truth is the only difference between John King and Barack Obama is John King lays it out for all to see that he's protecting Dick Cheney while Obama hides the fact that's he's protecting the former VP in eloquent *****.
Oh, and of course the fact that Obama is protecting him from any legal consequence while King just protects the reputation.
At the end of the day they are both running interference for a traitor and a war criminal, but at least King does his dirty deeds in public.
All I'm waiting for now is the apology from Gibbs. Tears are optional of course..... - ScienceDoc, on 03/18/2009, -6/+27The Fourth Estate allowed the neocons to destroy this country and most of the MSM should probably be ignored at this point as worthless sycophants only in it for the $.
FTA:"Journalists love to depict themselves as hard-nosed, rambunctious, ornery adversaries of establishment orthodoxies and political power. The reality is the opposite: there simply is no class of people more reverent of the political establishment and more devoted to protecting and defending its prerogatives. Of all people, journalists ought to be embarrassed to publicly play the role of decorum enforcers when it comes to how the politically powerful are treated. They should be the last ones -- not the first ones -- demanding that controversial political figures be treated with the type of profound reverence typically reserved for religious leaders and monarchs. " - C0ntraRadical, on 03/18/2009, -5/+24Where's the criticism of former-VP Cheney for trying to undermine the sitting President? Gibbs is, at most, guilty of responding in kind.
- shadus, on 03/18/2009, -5/+20You know, it's ironic to hear Cheney say anything really though, he was the worst abuser of power this country has ever had as a VP. He abused power more than most presidents.
- techweenie, on 03/18/2009, -7/+20Cheney has been shown way more respect than he has earned.
- Gr00ver, on 03/18/2009, -9/+21Dick Cheney is a dick.
- kasjogren, on 03/18/2009, -3/+15Well he was running the assassination squad. He was running opposition smear campaign. etc etc. Just because it wasn't listed in the daily presser doesn't mean he wasn't doing it. He was around during watergate and iran contra and in the "lessons learned" meetings he had afterwards he learned that HE and HE ALONE needed to run these kinds of stunts so it didn't leak.
- C0ntraRadical, on 03/18/2009, -1/+12Generally outgoing VPs and Presidents respect the new White House tenants enough to not undermine their agenda. I was not talking about criticism in general.
See Bush's example: "I'm not going to spend my time criticizing him. There are plenty of critics in the arena," Bush said. "He deserves my silence."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/17/politics ...
Cheney needs to show some respect too and shut his smirking trap. - neognostic, on 03/18/2009, -3/+14@nocred name 5 things from the horribly inept and criminal Bush administration that he wasn't involved in?
- Tuscarora, on 03/18/2009, -2/+12I never thought I'd be citing George Bush as a good example of anything, but he said in his first public speech since leaving office that he doesn't intend to criticize President Obama. If only his idiot VP would show as much class. On the other hand, conspiracy theorists might wonder if Bush knows Cheney will do his dirty work for him while he looks good staying above the fray.
In either case, these journalists need to get a clue. Dick Cheney has zero credibility and zero class and he's fair game as long as he keeps opening his big mouth. - SpinningHead, on 03/18/2009, -3/+13I think most of Cheney's responsibilities involved breaking ties in the senate, redacted, redacted, redacted, and feeding the White House ducks bits of the constitution soaked in fresh baby's blood.
- kasjogren, on 03/18/2009, -4/+13whooooooooosh
That was the sound of the point going over your head. - LawScholar, on 06/25/2009, -2/+11Dick Cheney strangles seven kittens before bedtime every night, though clearly he strangled journalistic integrity first.
- elliotys, on 03/18/2009, -1/+8Oh look another righty leveling personal attacks instead of talking about issues and substance.
Shocking. - elliotys, on 03/18/2009, -1/+8If someone commits a murder, is it un-classy to call them a murderer? If someone is partially responsible for the economic collapse is it un-classy to call them on it?
Answer: No - inactive, on 03/18/2009, -2/+9Can one use the word "DICK" in church when referring to the former gestapo...err... I mean VP?
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -1/+7In this case, "Dick" is short for Lucifer.
- jhhudso, on 03/18/2009, -2/+8Yes, I've already seen plenty of change in policies compared to President Bush. This is change I was hoping for and change I can believe in. It does not mean that I will like or agree with everything Obama or the House/Senate under Democratic control will do, but I have seen enough things so far to believe we're going in a more right than wrong direction. Of course only in 4 years will I know for sure.
- skintigh, on 03/18/2009, -2/+8JCred: part of his daily job was monitoring the progress of the torture of some uncharged suspects. I wish I was making that up. Bush and Cheney approved of the torture of certain suspects and got daily updates on what they said/were made to say.
JC, can I assume JC stands for Jesus Christ? What do you think Jesus's opinion on that would be? Who would Jesus torture? - inactive, on 03/18/2009, -5/+11Dick Cheney = Go ***** Yourself.
- BlacklabelSAR, on 03/19/2009, -1/+7I can name one thing he did. He lied repeatedly about connections between Iraq and 9/11. He actively sold the war.
- jayvan913, on 03/18/2009, -3/+8But he hasn't been charged or convicted of war crimes. That's the argument; he's done things which, if done by anyone not in a position such as he is in, would have already gotten him charged with war crimes. Had Cheney been in a position of power in a different country, I bet that America would have taken action against him to save the peoples under his horrible reign.
- kingUssop, on 03/18/2009, -3/+8Yeah, it's because there's no such thing as a liberal media. Not unless you're talking about people with maybe 1% air time. The majority of the media - pardon my French here - sucked Bush off while he went to war, and never apologized. The majority of the media ran with jingoistic programming for 8 years. The majority of the media isn't relevant and can be run circles around by comedians and children, because we're talking about a new class of privileged, upper crust journalist that does their job as lazily and as corporately as Dubya.
- clvngodess, on 03/18/2009, -2/+7By all means. I do believe it is the pet name of a certain fallen, um, angel.
- elliotys, on 03/18/2009, -5/+9Obviously they don't know Dick.
- brynlb, on 03/18/2009, -4/+8That murderous leech is lucky he isn't being called Inmate No. 28301-016.
- elliotys, on 03/18/2009, -3/+7Actually I think it takes more character to stand up there and call them on their *****, than to just sit back quietly and say nothing.
- yournightmare, on 03/18/2009, -2/+6Nobody cared when the Dixie Chicks bashed Bush? You're just an outright liar.
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -4/+8EXCELLENT article. It's always great to see Glen Greenwald hit the front page. I check out his commentary daily on Salon--it would be great to see quality articles like this hit the front page more often, rather than source-hopping tabloid headlines like HuffPo churns out.
- inactive, on 03/18/2009, -1/+5OMG COMMUNIZM OBVIOUSLY!!1!1
- lostlyrics, on 03/19/2009, -0/+3*ding* che dickney the great revolutioner
- stealing from the poor to give to the rich - powerslave71, on 03/18/2009, -5/+8***** you Dick Cheney.
- Nodaki, on 03/18/2009, -2/+5Where is Congress, or the Attorney General's office investigation for criminal conduct of the Bush Administration?
- Nodaki, on 03/18/2009, -9/+11"He's lucky he is not already in prison..."
Cheney will never be charged with a crime as long as we have an administration that wants to use the same tools that he implemented. - inactive, on 03/19/2009, -1/+3Tax & spend replacing borrow & spend. (Hey, you asked.)
- m3arvk, on 03/18/2009, -1/+3The following people are stupid: Chip Reid and Rick Klein. I don't care to elaborate.
- inactive, on 03/19/2009, -0/+2@BlacklabelISA
I've often heard people say that. But what did Cheney say that connected Iraq and Sept 11? - inactive, on 03/18/2009, -3/+5
EVERY administration did not do this. Most did not. Do you remember Clinton bashing Bush Sr. after taking office. Was Dan Quayle ever mentioned after Clinton took office?? Or did Bush Sr. bash Ronald Reagan's vice president. MOST administrations show some respect for the office they now hold. - lostlyrics, on 03/19/2009, -0/+2please bury loud.
I am interested in documenting every single
asocial element who supported theft of trillions
as grown systematic under the cheney outlaws.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org http://www.afghanistanwatch.org - drmobutu, on 03/18/2009, -1/+3Cheney is the former Vice President...and his opinion is irrelevant, now.
The fuss is about how the other media guys criticized Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, for disrespecting Cheney, who had just finished disrespecting Obama, in an interview conducted by John King.
What it reveals, is that John King, Chip Reid, and Rick Klein are partisan sycophant toadies, not "journalists". - mjk340, on 03/19/2009, -1/+3Tax & spend on infrastructure replacing borrow and spend on wars.
- JoeParanoid, on 03/18/2009, -7/+9We're just showing the same regard to Cheney that he has shown to us and our elected represented the past 8 years. The only difference is that our disrespect has no lasting impact.
Any member of the media who wants to tell those of us outside the Beltway how to behave is welcome to drop by for a tete-a-tete. - inactive, on 03/19/2009, -0/+2Do like that they're going to release Gitmo prisoners into the United States?
Do you like that Obama "outlawed" torture....but left himself wiggle room so he can do it if he needs to? Just like President Bush?
Do you like how Obama said we could read the laws he's signing for 5 days...then promptly signed a law spending hundreds of billions after posting it for a few hours? - jhhudso, on 03/21/2009, -0/+1If a Gitmo prisoner is not guilty then I have no problem with them being released. I doubt they would be released in the U.S. without being granted a visa. It's more likely that we will return prisoners who have been found innocent or held without just cause to the country they are from.
Unless i missed some important news that you're referring to, Obama said his administration would not torture. His attorney general pick said that waterboarding was illegal. Therefore I must assume that his administration will not use waterboarding unlike the last administration. What wiggle room are you speaking of? Since the executive brance does not write laws, they only sign them into law and execute them, I assume you must be referring to some signing statement of Bush's that Obama has not rescinded? If so, I would agree with you that Obama should remove it.
Obama did NOT say that we could read ANY law for 5 days before he signed it. He said, and I quote "As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days."
(Ref. http://www.barackobama.com/issues/ethics/)
My understanding is that if Obama had not signed the spending bill, all non-emergency federal workers would have been out of work until he did sign it. Therefore he considered the bill an emergency. Personally I would have preferred congress produce another temporary spending bill, like they did last year, to give more time to crafting the proper omnibus spending bill for the whole year. Since congress did not do this and only gave Obama the bill they gave him, it was an emergency for him to sign it. You should not misconstrue what Obama said to mean what you would prefer it meant. - inactive, on 03/18/2009, -4/+5cheney is coward
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