Cheney Mocked By Media Over Auschwitz Attire

Associated Press ^ | January 28, 2005 | seattlepi.newsource.com

[Ghengis]

Well...

Vice president Cheney did show up in camo, asking the locals, "Can I buy me a huntin' license here?" before the protocol advisers pulled him aside.

Thank goodness a Washington post Reporter (an L.L. Bean shopper) was able to loan the Vice President this down parka before he further embarrassed himself.

[longtermmemmory]

Keep in mind these are the same women who support "comfortable shoes" vs fashionable shoes.

Who was the president whose ego during a freezing inauguration won him a case of pnemonia and death?

This is the best the MSM can do? He must have done EVERYTHING else correctly for this to be their best shot.

Too bad nobody put a camera on what the Mediots were wearing.

[Rebelbase]

Media Clymers are really scraping the bottom of the outhouse to be using this for an administration hit piece.

[Sterco]

And it's too bad the Nazis adopted the swastika, because it is a cool looking symbol. Damn Nazis ruining everything.

You are probably right. Some of the "Heroin Addicted" models I have seen are not too many lbs. from looking like concentration camp victims.

[1LongTimeLurker]

Who was the president whose ego during a freezing inauguration won him a case of pnemonia and death?

William Henry Harrison, but his address was an hour and forty minutes long, which could have contributed to the situation. He died a month after taking office.

[F.J. Mitchell]

"He really does look like an ice fisherman at a funeral. :^)".

Unless the Europeans have changed since I was there in the middle sixties, they do wear their Sunday, go to meeting clothes to go ice fishing as well as enroute to work and going home from their place of employment, whether they were janitors, Mayors, garbage men, Mechanics or whatever.

Remember one thing folks. The non-idiots imigrated to North America from Europe, long ago. That picture makes it pretty clear why Cheney's relatives preferred Wyoming over wherever they came from.

[Caesar Soze]

de jure = by law (Latin)
du jour = of the day (French)

My French is a bit rusty (as any red-stater's should be ;), but I think that's what you were going for.

[snugs]

Oh dear he probably wore his own clothes not borrowed ones. As for the ski hat he removed it when he laid the candle the rest of the time he was not participating only an on looker if the press had not taken photos of the crowd which incidentally were not required because it was not part of the ceremonies no one would ever have known he wore the hat.

Incidentally over the years Dick Cheney has skied and in an interview I think in 2002 he said that nowadays does not do much more than mess about with the grandchildren now because of bad knees and getting older being out in the snow unless it is fairly sunny dry day is not advisable but you can rest assured the hat is no prop it is a ski hat used for that purpose even if only mucking about with the grandkids. Dick Cheney is no poser. I bet also he wears those hiking boots in WY.

[mass55th]

Someone on the other thread said it looked like Air Force issue. Seeing as the VP was photographed wearing a black overcoat when he entered the Auschwitz museum, I'm wondering if he didn't have anything appropriate to protect himself during the outdoor ceremony and borrowed a parka from one of the Air Force pilots.

[mystery-ak]

I thought the same thing earlier...I bet that's the reason.

[snugs]

** can tell you are mad but this article was so silly and tripe that you shouldn't it get to you......moist of us just LOVE the Veep and made a bit of fun at him for standing out....I think you have been battling the DUmmies very hard this week.....have a drink and start the weekend early.......like me....(wink)_**

Thanks for advise yes living in Britain I am surrounded by them and as you can tell from my other posts Tony Blair is not my favourite bunny.

By the way I will pour myself a large whiskey mac (whiskey an ginger wine).

[mass55th]

"Didn't Robin Givhan get the hell beat out of her by Mike Tyson?"

Wrong Robin, but this one could definitely stand to have the crap beat out of her.

[jbarkley]

according to weather underground's archives, it was between 15 and 20 degrees on Thursday, with wind gusts up to 40 MPH.

[EDINVA]

with all due respect ... if you look at that picture, the others were all wearing fur. Imagine the Post coverage had Cheney dared to wear fur. The man is from Wyoming, he knows about cold. The man also has a heart condition. It is in our national interest that he stay healthy. This event went on in bitter Poland cold for two hours. VP Cheney dressed appropriately. He is probably also the only one who was there who isn't sick today. You do have to have some common sense.

But we are losing sight of the complete idiocy of the Washington Post covering what the VP was wearing at all. When you think of those poor people who were prisoners at Auschwitz and all they endured, the discussion of fashion at a memorial to them makes me physically sick.

[nyg4168]

The man is from Wyoming, he knows about cold. The man also has a heart condition. It is in our national interest that he stay healthy.

Then why didn't he wear his mukluk outfit to his innaguration last week, when it was 35 degrees and he was sitting outside for hours?

[Steve0113]

Note to mainstream media (and those of you in Rio Linda): Poland in January is cold.

Out of curiousity, I just looked up the weather info for Warsaw (since I don't know where in Poland Cheney actually was). The weather there is the same as it's been in Washington, DC, this week. They've had highs in the 20's and lows in the teens, with light snow.

On the other hand, Cheney doesn't sit outdoors in DC.

[snugs]

**That picture makes it pretty clear why Cheney's relatives preferred Wyoming over wherever they came from.**

Actually his ancestors settled in Ohio first LOL.

Us Brits cannot criticize we are fast becoming the scruffiest race on earth. We only wear trousers and ties o if insisted a suit for work purposes if imposed upon us by our Company not from choice. Us girls get off light basically we can wear what we like as long as it is decent our receptionist normally wears a nice simple top and jeans. Jeans and tee shirt seem to fit all other occasions. I don't know what it considered normal attire for church in the US but I can assure you suit and tie is not usual in Britain unless it is a special service.

[snugs]

He was better protected from the cold last week and it was not snowing.

[JohnBDay]

I'll give Cheney a pass because of his health. But you'd have have to admit that if Edwards had done this, we'd call him a wimp.

[TalBlack]

"Yeah, love Chenney, but what was he thinking?"

If I had his medical history I don't think I'd be out there taxing the old ticker with a fashionably colored but insulation light overcoat.