Posted on 02/20/2006 4:16:14 PM PST by JustaCowgirl
Some people may have been wondering if the nine-day old Dick Cheney hunting story would be going away. Don’t count on it. On the February 20 edition of the Early Show, Evan Thomas, assistant managing editor at Newsweek, told Harry Smith that "People who don’t like [Cheney] think this is the dark, Darth Vader type." His analysis coincided with the new issue of Newsweek that features a cover story, written by Thomas, on "Cheney’s Secret World." The online edition features this sub-headline:
"He peppered a man in the face, but didn’t tell his boss. Inside Dick Cheney’s dark, secretive mind-set-and the forces that made it that way." (Italics added)
Thomas elaborated on his Dick-Cheney-is-a-Dark-Lord thesis in the Early Show interview. Airing at 7:18AM EST, he described the then Vice Presidential candidate of the 2000 debates as "amiable" and "reasonable." Now, Thomas added ominously, "There is this feeling that maybe Cheney has gotten more reclusive, a little gloomier, a little darker then he used to be."
Thomas spoke of a growing rift between Bush and the Vice President. His proof? According to the veteran journalist, "I do not want to overstate this, but they used to have a weekly lunch. They don’t anymore." Throughout the interview, Thomas peppered his comments with qualifiers and speculation. Here are but a few:
"And this is very speculative, one of the big guessing games in Washington is has the President changed in some way?"
"There are little, tiny signs that the President is less dependent..."
"There’s an endless guessing game in Washington about their relationship, and of course we don’t really know..." (Italics added)
Harry Smith, for his part, chose to speak for conservatives. He stated, "Fans would say that he can’t be bothered by the trivial needs of the press." Perhaps I don’t know the same Cheney "fans" that Thomas does, but wasn’t the conservative argument that the media was blowing the story out of proportion?
It seems as though the media’s plan to continue reporting on the story involves speculation and Star Wars references.
A partial transcript follows:
The Early Show 2/20/06 7:18AM EST
Harry Smith and Evan Thomas
Smith: "You know, this episode for a lot of people only serves to reinforce what Cheney lovers and Cheney loathers really believe already, which is what do you think?"
Thomas: "Well, you know, he does split the country. People who don't like him think this is the dark, Darth Vader-type guy. And people who do like him, and that's at least half the country, think the press is piling on and beating up on him unfairly."
Smith: "What does that ring to you? That absence of communication?"
Thomas: "Well, there's an endless guessing game in Washington about their relationship, and of course we don't really know because it is the mostly closely guarded of all, but there are little signs that it's, maybe, not quite as close as it once was. I do not want to overstate this, but they used to have a weekly lunch. They don't anymore, it's not every week. There are little, tiny signs that the President is less dependent on the Vice President then he used to be at the beginning of his Presidency."
Smith: "Yeah, because if we go back, and you indicate in your article, you go back all the way back to the beginning as they were campaigning, you know, people said they watched the debate with Cheney and Joe Lieberman, and people said they seemed like the grown ups compared to the kids (Thomas laughs) and people said maybe they should flip the tickets. Is there really a difference now? Is the President really is own guy and is Cheney some place farther back then the back seat?"
Thomas: "Uh, well, I mean there are a lot of, and this is very speculative, one of the big guessing games in Washington is has the President changed in some way? The amiable, reasonable Dick Cheney that we saw in those debates, in the first set of debates, now the view is that maybe he has changed a little bit. Brent Scowcroft, who was Bush 41's national security advisor, gave vent to this by saying, I don't know Dick Cheney anymore. Scowcroft and Cheney had gone way back and there is this feeling that maybe Cheney has gotten more reclusive, a little gloomier, a little darker, then he used to be."
She never said that and he is totally taking her words out of context
translation ... he's lying .. AGAIN
here is the video
Mary Matalin: “You [The Press] Went on a Jihad” (VIDEO)
http://exposetheleft.com/2006/02/19/mtp-cheney/
LOL! Wonder if your NYTimes edition readership will soon eclipse the original?
Always two there are. A master and apprentice 8>)
The Slimes readership is growing by leaps and bounds! I have more than a dozen actual readers. That beats the NYT by six...BTW I have more New York Slimes Editions on my FR Homepage and my Archives Page
Poor little Evan Thomas, his buddy Imus took the day off so he had to take his diatribe to the low ratings CBS show.
LOL!
Two of the most worthless dweebs ever. E...VV...ER.
Shoot, I once beat a guy senseless with a tire tool on purpose while I was at work and didn't tell my boss about it until the middle of the next morning. I guess we take things like that a little less seriously in East Texas.
Well, one thing's for sure, we have plenty of hot-shot reporters who can really go after Hillary on the Vince Foster "sucicide" thingy. NOT! Most will quit reporter work and hire on at a convience store first.
I'm a big fan of rifled slugs, personally.
See post #30 for an illustration of the reason why.
OMG that too funnyyy ROFL
I wonder how Baby look Dick Cheney and Ann Coulter DNA ALRIGHT MR VICE PRESIDENT didn't know you had in you LOL!
One to wild power. One to crave it.
One to wield power. One to crave it.
"You don't understand the power of the dark side". Or, preferably, "Apology accepted, Mr. Thomas.".
Evan Thomas - Grandson of six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas
"The media, I think, want Kerry to win….That's going to be worth maybe 15 points." -- Evan Thomas, "Inside Politics," July 11, 2004
"But do you believe that most reporters want John Kerry to win?" Kurtz asked. "Yeah," replied Thomas. "Absolutely."
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Evan Thomas was born in April 1951 in Huntington, New York and grew up in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. His father Evan Thomas II was an executive with the book publishing house Scribner's. His grandfather was Norman Thomas (1884-1968), disciple and successor to Eugene V. Debs, founder of America's Socialist Party. Norman Thomas was the Socialist Party presidential candidate in six elections from 1928 until 1948.
"I believe," wrote Norman Thomas, "that the hope for the future lies in a new social and economic order which demands the abolition of the capitalistic system." Oddly, Norman Thomas was an ordained Presbyterian minister who had been converted to the socialist faith while attending Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
Evan Thomas was schooled at the elite Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts, graduating in 1969. Other prominent journalists of the left were also shaped there, including Thomas' current Newsweek columnist comrade Jonathan Alter (Andover Academy Class of 1975). (Other Andover Academy graduates include President George H.W. Bush '42, President George W. Bush '64, and Florida Governor Jeb Bush '71.)
Evan Thomas graduated from Harvard College in 1973 and earned a Juris Doctorate at the University of Virginia Law School in 1977.
In 1977 Thomas was hired by Time Magazine, where for the next nine years he worked as a correspondent, writer and editor. In 1986 he and Time National Editor Walter Isaacson co-wrote The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made about Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, George Kennan and others who shaped U.S. foreign policy after World War II.
In 1986 Thomas left Time to become head of the Washington bureau of rival news magazine Newsweek, a position he held until 1996. Since then he has done long investigative pieces for Newsweek. His coverage of the Monica Lewinsky scandal won a National Magazine Award in 1998.
Seven, you're babbling again...
No NOT babbling but feel ANOTHER beer would nice be...
Zoidberg! Tighten up that doohicky above her eye, 
Seven's talking trash again!
Get her in a towel while I call my assistant. 
Don't you just hate it...
When you have to strip off all the clothes from a sexy semi-borg and then cover her with a towel? Seven, come to Bender!
I'm here to assist Dr. Zoidberg. Is the patient ready?
AM ready that I ARE...
Seven, when are you going to get wise to these guys?
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