I always thought the biggest shot heard Round the World was "Bill and Monica"--- but who am I?
Posted on 02/18/2006 10:45:54 PM PST by jmc1969
If, as he ponders the Threat Matrix at his daily intelligence briefing, Cheney really sees himself as a modern Achilles or Hector on the plains at Troy, he is not just being grandiose.
Cheney is often lauded as that rare No. 2 who, having no political ambition for himself, can give his all to the president. But Cheney's aloofness from the ebb and flow of politics and public opinion has apparently dulled his senses in a way that is not helpful to his boss, who has been busy lately defending his administration from criticism that it was badly out of touch during Hurricane Katrina.
Sounding less than convinced himself, Bush tried to calm down the hunting-accident press flap. Cheney, said Bush, had done "just fine" with Fox News anchorman Brit Hume, who was granted an exclusive interview with the veep four days after the shooting.
But the shooting incident once again drew attention to the unusual nature of Cheney's power. He remains by far the most powerful vice president in history, and one of the most secretive and mysterious public officials to ever hold such high office in America. He is caricatured as a Darth Vader, spooky, above the law; nefarious.
Has he been transformed, warped, perhaps corrupted—by stress, wealth, aging, illness, the real terrors of the world or possibly some inner goblins.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Newsweek, you accuse Cheney of using a gun and being power-hungry,
but
your axe is showing. So's your grindstone.
Give it a rest.
In fact, learn journalism for its true worth.
A duck-hunting accident means Cheney is Darth Vader? What are those boys at Newsweek smoking these days?
Not the son, the grandson. But it seems to run in the family doesn't it?
Just so everyone knows, here's a pithy statement from Evan's Grandpa Norman Thomas:
"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
-- Norman Thomas, Socialist Party Presidential Candidate in 1940, 1944 and 1948, co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Our enemies within --- have raised their heads and voices to identify themselves..
When will someone give the order to fire upon them?
Semper Fi
This is called over-reaching .. or over-playing your hand.
True to form .. the dems continue on this path. They are so deaf to the public's opinions .. they do not know when to quit.
If the dems wanted to win in 2006 - this is not how you do it.
"Cheney's popularity should increase after this."
"It isn't everybody that can claim to have shot a lawyer."
Shakespeare would have been proud, and I'll see that my lawyer sees this first thing in the morning. He, too, will appreciate it.
BTW, Rumsfeld noted Newsweek's "toilet flushing" story, and how it needlessly enflamed anti-US sentiment in a recent CFR speech.
You have got to be kidding me! Evan has to find someone to quote as a source on this outrageous statement! Or is he just making this up?
They couldn't hear you if they tried, and they won't try. They are propagandists, not journalists. They believe that striving for objective reporting or for politically balanced commentary is for chumps. Their work product is exactly what they want it to be.
"Did Newsweek have a similar tabloid headline when Bill Clinton deliberately put a cigar up a woman's vagina?"
I think that was the "slot heard around the world" headline.
I have a lot of faith in Cheney but even he is going to have a hard time living up to such larger than life expectations
From the article:
“He is caricatured as a Darth Vader, spooky, above the law; nefarious.
Has he been transformed, warped, perhaps corrupted—by stress, wealth, aging, illness, the real terrors of the world or possibly some inner goblins.”
Naww not that bad. He is just the second in command for the interglacial war that they conned us into.
Evan Thomas was the reporter who said (boasted??) that the MSM would be worth 15 points for Kerry. That must mean that Kerry should have gotten only 34%. So even Evan has said that we shouldn't trust the MSM. His article proves why.
I always thought the biggest shot heard Round the World was "Bill and Monica"--- but who am I?
No big deal -- as I mentioned, the Commie gene seems to run in the family.
On page two of the article the author tries to illustrate "how Cheney has changed", by offering quotes from Brent Scowcroft.
Scowcroft states, "I consider Cheney a good friend—I've known him for thirty years. But Dick Cheney I don't know anymore."
Given the fact that Scowcroft did not support an invasion of Iraq, why would it be unusual for Cheney to no longer consider him as part of his inner circle?
WTH? I grow so weary of this crap. I wonder how their subscriptions are doing. We actually used to pay for this bird-cage-liner/fire-starter. I wonder how many other "used-to-subscribers" they're getting.
:-), it runs in the Democrat Party too :-)
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