Posted on 06/25/2004 3:22:06 PM PDT by kattracks
Vice President Dick Cheney says he has no regrets about cursing Sen. Patrick "Leaky" Leahy.
"I felt better after I said it," Cheney told Fox News Channel today. "A lot of my colleagues felt what I said badly needed to be said."
The vice president sidestepped Neil Cavuto's questions about whether he had used the word all the media say he did (a word the FCC deems a naughty and costly expletive if uttered on radio or TV). Cheney said that was not the sort of language he usually used.
Cavuto asked Cheney if he had cursed at Leahy. "Probably," the veep replied.
'We Don't Play Games'
Meanwhile, the Washington Post today defended its decision to spell out the vulgar term rather than use such euphemisms as "the F word."
Executive Editor Leonard Downie stated, "When the vice president of the United States says it to a senator in the way in which he did on the Senate floor, readers need to judge for themselves what the word is because we don't play games at The Washington Post and use dashes."
But what about all those "expletive deleteds" in the Watergate stories?
And how come the Post didn't report Hillary Clinton's attack on former campaign aide Paul Fray, whom she called a "f--king Jew bastard"?
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Media Bias
Methinks Leonard Downie doth protest too much.
ROFL!
"I said it and I felt better for it - and doggone it - people like me...."LOL! I'm Cheney's biggest fan. Al Franken(stein) can take a LOOoong walk on a short pier as far as I'm concerned, though. :^)
Oh, yeah. I will be sending my email to Cheney and to his wife. Thanks ! :^)
Amen ! Thanks.
I would have been more profound with Leahy. I would have told him to butthole surf himself out of the Senate! See? No curse words, with a harder effect. But I am ex-mil and heard things around the world I can be creative with:)
Yeah, blowing off steam is good for the cardiovascular system. :)
Mr. Downie, meet the "L-word."
For Washington Post stories that have used the term "f-word," go here
For Washington Post stories that have used the term "n-word," go here.
Advanced search at google turns up WP articles using "s-word" and other euphemistic abbreviations.
The WP does nothing but "play games," including attempts to hamper the free speech of conservative websites.
Understandable gets my vote. A very wise man once told me that there are two types of people who swear...angry people and inarticulate people. Listen to Dick Cheney speak sometime and then turn on BET.
No kidding, or listen to Algore go on and on and on with such hatefilled rhetoric. I'll bet Algore would cry "Uncle!" if he was challenged with facs, for the hatefilled crap he spews at will.
"We don't play games at the Washington Post." ROTFLOLOL Oh pleeeeease!
ROFLMAO!
Agreed. There is a time and place to throw out the occasional cuss-word. Lobbing them forth because it sounds cool or makes one look hip for the "MTV Generation" is beyond infantile.
I believe the feelings had been building up for several months with Cheney and he finally burst and said what we all wanted to say to Leahy, because I believe Cheney had enough of the ad hominem attacks that have been going on from the Left for nearly 2 years.
Dick F'in Cheney!
Right, and you don't have an agenda either.
See Washington Post Story in above link! HA HA!!!
Internalising is terrible for a heart patient. A lot of wisdom in the "better out than in" diddy. Once a day would probably do wonders for the VP's coronary arteries.
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