One of my favorite scenes from Blazing Saddles.
Posted on 10/06/2004 6:22:37 AM PDT by zeebee
During last night's VP debate, Edwards kept hammering at "Halliburton... Halliburton" and Cheney absolutely refused to meet him there.
A class act by Cheney, one of many during the debate. I was wondering how he might answer spitballboy and at the time I kept thinking, "rebutt!"
But now I realize Cheney made Edwards look even smaller by not even addressing the issue.
I agree with your assessment. When VP Cheney did not take the bait, John Edwards was taken aback. The metaphysic reading of Edwards' reaction was "You brute, you brute,youbrute!" ;>
That's, "Haliburton," with one "L."
lol!! Is that from Blazing Saddles, the part at the end? "You brute brute brute!! Ohhhh!" lol!!! How did that song go, "Put out your hands, stick out your tush..." I could see Edwards doing that, Kerry too. After all wasn`t it them who said "We have better hair than Bush and Cheney" Ohhh, well yoo hoo to you boys!
It seemed to me he asked the moderator for more time to explain Haliburton, but she wouldn't give him more time.
He just said it was a smokescreen. End of story.
I liked the way that Cheney, when he knew he couldn't make a proper rebuttal in 30 seconds, directed people to the factcheck website. Unfortunately, when I checked it today, it directed me to georgesoros.com. Apparently, my boss just told me, Cheney gave the wrong address--.com, should have been .org--and GS bought the wrong website overnight to switch it over. And the proper website--factcheck.org--is down. I can't stand these people.
One of my favorite scenes from Blazing Saddles.
I think the libs spell it with a Scarlet Letter...
It seemed to me he asked the moderator for more time to explain Haliburton, but she wouldn't give him more time.
I loved the similar bitch-slap re: the gay issue.
Cheney thanked him for his kind words and the moderatorette asked in astonishment,
"Is that it"?
"Yep"
A Kodak moment...
You were thinking what, exactly?
Mike Barnicle had a great line. Said at the end it was as tho Cheney said to Edwards, AND NO YOU CAN'T HAVE THE CAR KEYS!!!
"rebut"? Isn't that partner change time at a gay party?
I would have loved Cheney to say "you are planning on outsourcing pharmaceuticals" in response to the Canadian drug issue.
"rebutt"? Isn't that partner change time at a gay party?
Again it is so EASY to nail the libs when you just do it. Edwards is just a space-filling liberal pretty-boy who is just reading from a script handed to him. Standard, generic, limosine liberal.
Cheney had him SO OUTCLASSED it was easy -- when you go up against someone like Cheney, you had better be good and clean. Edwards lost on both accounts. An easy kill.
The Silky Pony clearly had a list of talking points and slogans, e.g., the Haliburton nonsense, that he desperately tried to interject wherever he could, even when "answering" a question on an entirely different subject. He couldn't have been more obvious had he looked at crib notes scribbled on his shirt cuff.
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