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"?
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Media Bias
Frist has shown some guts.....finally.
The difference is...Cheney didn't use the word gratuitously...it seemed to come deep from inside, churning for months below the surface then sparked by idiotic and continuously childless behavior on the part of Leaky. These are the cases when the F word can really make a difference in our world.
I don't understand in all this, why Cheney got so angry. Leahy had said something like "you called me a bad Catholic." Was Leahy trying to imply that Cheney was a worse Catholic? And I'm sure that being potty mouth was a REAL godly move, right.
It's always gratuitous. Always, always, always.
Now can you just imagine Jesus Christ saying to Leahy, "eff you." Of course you can't. Now "to hell with you" may be in the cards.
Followed by a wooden stake to the heart...but wait, that would assume that Leahy "had" one.
"Properly P-d off politicians with a pair" PING for the Veep!!!!
One cussing Repub and the press starts doing stories on incivility in the Senate. All their examples are R's cussing or dissing D's. I'm willing to estimate it's been 100 times more of the reverse, but that has been ignored until we do it, the the slant machine starts. There's not three civil Dems in the senate, and Cheney's finally being fed-up and blowing his top is just a symptom of that. I imagine Leahy was taunting him (and others) regularly like a childish second grader, and he'd had enough. When someone's a complete dumbass, only a "GFY" will get the point across.
LOL, Thanks
"Stuff a sock in it" works just fine where I come from.
To be honest... We need a republican to tell these lies/propagandist/democRATS to F-off more often...
Sigh, sigh, sigh, it's not "incivility" it's godliness.
Maybe "deliberate" is a better one.
I get the sense that Kerry used the word as part of a strategy...perhaps even planning it beforehand, thinking that it might win votes.
However, I believe Cheney said it impulsively, being pushed by the evil dems farther than he could could contain himself.
I admire Cheney for putting up with the garbage, abuse and lies about his motives day after day. I certainly would have broken well before this and the fact that he remains calm so frequently is, I think, heroic. It's surprising actually that he hasn't shown any temper up to now.
So, yes, cursing is wrong and we don't want to see Cheney explode in expletives very often...but the word came out on this one occasion for reasons I can understand. I don't see anything understandable in the Rolling Stone Kerry interview.
For those freepers who have forgotten their disgust when Kerry used the f-bomb, take a look at was said then.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1036304/posts
If you think the word should not be said, then that should be true of every speaker and every situation. Those who condemn Kerry and Cheney for using the word have a much sounder position than those who find the one gratutitous and the other noble.
I think we expect Dems to be, well, jackasses.
Leahy challenged Cheney's integrity, basically accusing him of being a war profiteer.
LM(expletive deleted)O
PING
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