Posted on 04/25/2009 11:22:22 AM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out
The newest false meme invented by the Old Media is this claim that ex-presidents and ex-vice presidents have some sort of "tradition of silence" where it concerns commenting on those that take residence in the White House after they leave. The reason the Old Media is pushing this false claim is because Dick Cheney has been commenting on Obama's security mistakes and the Old Media wants to scold Cheney for his efforts to get the truth to the people
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Can you remember any report by any Old Media outlet that excoriated Al Gore for his constant, wild-eyed, screaming fits against the Bush administration for the last 8 years?
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Not to mention Jimmuh, who’s been making a nuisance of himself for almost 30 now.
Same old double standard.
Who besides us criticizes Carter for his classless attacks, even while abroad?
The truth is that Bush senior refused to criticize Clinton, and Bush junior refuses to criticize either Clinton or Obama, but Clinton, Carter, Gore, and now Obama have never hesitated to criticize either a sitting or former president.
Cheney is filling a vacuum. There aren’t any Repubs out there with the grit to speak up and speak clearly about the direction the country is going. I have no doubt Cheney would prefer to go into quiet retirement, but the times don’t allow it. I don’t see any Repubs out there who are prepared to speak up boldly, they are all trying to be bi-partisan, non-partisan, post-partisan, or below the radar, and I’ve about had it.
I’m becoming a one-man Cheney-for-president club. I don’t see anyone else. Hunter has withdrawn to heal his wounds. Its Cheney, in my opinion. There isn’t anyone else... who? I don’t hear them, and if I don’t hear them speaking up now as we are cork-screwing into the tarmac, then they aren’t going to be the right one come 2012. I’m tired of weakling politicians who want to get elected by posing and positioning and hoping to sneak quietly into office through the side-door.
I’m a fan of both Palin and Bolton.
Yep it’s just the usual double standard. If you are a good Democrat, and/or speaking on behalf of a politically correct cause of the moment, you are allowed to rant and rave and insult people.
Consider that Perez Hilton person with the Miss USA pageant contestant. He didn’t like her answer about gay marriage. He went on his website and did a recording calling her a dunb bitch. Then he went on MSNBC and said that he won’t apologize, he called her the B word and he really was thinking the C word. Can you imagine if she had called him by anti-homosexual insults, what the reaction would have been? Yet there are no consequences at all for this dude, because it’s cool to be gay nowadays, and gay marriage is the liberal cause of the day.
The more I see and hear Mr. Cheney the more I respect him.
And as far as former VP's go - Mondale's criticisms of Reagan on "Star Wars", Nicaragua, El Salvador, budget, Lebanon attack, etc. etc.
The press has a short memory on things that they've reported over and over in the past.
I love the way Rove’s very name makes Dems go ape.
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Too bad he has little interest in being president. He’d be a good one, IMO
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