Dick Cheney: Even Bigger Monster Than You Thought

[WilliamPitt]

Dick Cheney: Even Bigger Monster Than You Thought
Salon

You’ve probably heard that Dick Cheney agrees with Bill Clinton about letting people who are losing private insurance keep their old plans, as President Obama repeatedly seemed to promise they could. That’s not surprising: Cheney is a troll who maligns the president whenever he can, and piling on with Clinton is a special kind of fun. Yes, it’s outrageous that a man who has enjoyed many millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded medical care doesn’t give a damn about the uninsured in our society, but that’s Dick Cheney.

Still, I was a little startled to hear the former vice president express total indifference to questions about his heart donor in a revealing interview with Larry King (it airs Thursday night; here’s a clip). It’s a window into his utter entitlement and self-absorption, and he comes off as an even bigger monster than I’d thought. Most people would at least feign interest in the donor; Cheney can’t manage it.

When King asks if he knows the identity of the person whose heart keeps him alive, Cheney, who is promoting a book about his transplant experience, says no, and adds, “it hadn’t been a priority for me.” Then he goes on:

When I came out from under the anesthetic after the transplant, I was euphoric. I’d had–I’d been given the gift of additional lives, additional years of life. For the family of the donor, they’d just been [through] some terrible tragedy, they’d lost a family member. Can’t tell why, obviously, when you don’t know the details, but the way I think of it from a psychological standpoint is that it’s my new heart, not someone else’s old heart. And I always thank the donor, generically thank donors for the gift that I’ve been given, but I don’t spend time wondering who had it, what they’d done, what kind of person.

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[russspeakeasy]

1. I look forward to the day his name is in the headlines.

[WilliamPitt]

2. I look every day.

[malaise]

32. +1,000

What a nasty human being

[truebluegreen]

107. Reminds me of the old joke about the guy

who buys a newspaper from a stand every day, scans the front page and then tosses it in the trash. When asked why he says he is looking for an obituary, and it's gonna be on the front page.

Like that? Me too.

[Snotcicles]

17. No matter how hard he fights it, he can't elude what awaits him, forever. nt

[russspeakeasy]

20. ...and the sooner the better.

[gopiscrap]

27. agreed

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

48. There's a poem by Hilaire Belloc that comes to mind

Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.

[Betty88]

50. +1 nt

[Martin Eden]

57. The Poem I wrote for Bush when he left office also applies to Cheney:

What I'd like to say to him face-to-face:


I'd tell you to go fuck yourself
But that is much too kind
Because if you could perform that feat
You'd take pleasure in your behind

I'd like to say eat shit and die
But you deserve much more
You should suffer all the grief and pain
Of your misbegotten war

Though I can never make you feel
Or think, or understand
I'll take solace when you hear your name
Cursed throughout the land

From inside a lonely prison cell
Dark and bare and cold
Where every day you pay for your crimes
Till you're sick, heartbroken, and old

Then when you finally leave the Earth
You fucked over oh so well
If there is a God and afterlife
You're going straight to hell

[truebrit71]

102. Brilliant poem...

...thanks for sharing it...most appropriate for both he and his junior accomplice when the time comes...

[ReRe]

106. I will dance in the street...

... and sing ding, dong, the blah, blah, blah, which old blah, the wicked blah....... You know the song.

[sharp_stick]

3. That's actually something that they

tell recipients of vital organs sometimes. In donation there can be a depression following the transplantation and the recipient can obsess over the identity of the person who donated the organ.

Now, knowing Cheney, I kind of doubt he'd ever give a flying fuck about the person that gave him the heart. He's a psychotic fuck.

If a family member of mine was the donor of that heart I'd be pretty fucking depressed myself. Saying that, maybe it's better for that family to not know who has the heart.

[russspeakeasy]

4. 100 %

[Sheldon Cooper]

72. Your last sentence really hits it on the head.

I'd be horrified to know that my loved one's death led to extended life for that despicable, loathsome asshole. Matter of fact, if that jerk ever needs a new donor heart, and I croak, I want it on the record that I refuse to donate it to him.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. I thought he had a mechanical heart.....

when did he get a human heart transplant?????

( shows how much attention I pay to the SOB)

[sharp_stick]

7. He had a heart transplant

at the beginning of 2012. The pump he had wasn't designed to be used permanently.

I and likely lots of other people we're hoping he'd run out the clock before they found a match.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

80. The pump wasn't designed to pump pure bullshit evil.

[Erose999]

47. I thought he'd had a transplant in secret and was rejecting it during his last time in the hospital.

Seems like something he would do. His heart probably came from a political prisoner somewhere in the 3rd world.

[svpadgham]

49. I figured he stole it from a toddler.

[George II]

68. In his case, his body wouldn't reject the heart - the heart would reject HIM!

[Blue Owl]

6. Every day is "Take to the Max Day" for Dick

n/t

[hlthe2b]

8. It is probably a kindness to the donor's family not to know that the heart of their beloved

went into that MONSTER... I can not imagine how that would feel...


As to Cheney, he is beyond redemption. I will not chastise anyone who expresses their true feelings about him when he finally does remove his scourge from the world.

[IrishAyes]

11. There will be dancing and singing in the streets, as when Margaret Thatcher the Milk Snatcher died.

[Hekate]

14. Words failed me, but you said it for me. I carry a donor card and have for 40 years, but God help me

... if anything in the world ever gave me pause about my decision it was hearing that Dick Cheney had received some innocent person's heart into his evil body and rotted soul. I simply have to believe that good karma redounds to the giver, even if the receiver is, as you say, beyond redemption.

[sheshe2]

19. +1

Well said Hekate.

[idwiyo]

79. +1

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

9. What a total fucking asswipe!!!!

[warrant46]

15. Please don't be so kind to that piece of profoundly immoral and malevolent rubbish

[SammyWinstonJack]

89. A Major League Asshole!

[kath]

110. Yeah, big time.

[budkin]

10. Can you imagine if your dead family member's heart was powering that POS?

[Pakid]

53. I would have to repo it!!

[Solly Mack]

12. Not surprised.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

13. No, not really....

He is every bit the piece of shit I thought he was. He cares for no one but himself.

[blue neen]

16. Typical response for a raging narcissistic asshole like Dick Cheney.

---"it hadn't been a priority for me"----just like "I had other priorities in the 60's than military service".

He's such a hateful human being.

[VanillaRhapsody]

78. Because if they were not wealthy people like him...

which is likely...and if they were poor or very poor....He is afraid he would feel public pressure to try to help them out....And Lord knows he ain't havin' none of that noise!

[Ferretherder]

83. I beg to differ!

Dick(head) Cheney is NOT a human being! I don't really know what he is, but something that uncaring and conscienceless CANNOT be human.

[blue neen]

87. I thought about that after I posted it.

He really is not a human being----he certainly has no humaneness!

[truth2power]

99. Cheney was on the News Hour last week. Being interviewed

by Gwen Ifill. Promoting that odious book of his. Ugh!

I rarely watch that show anymore. It's the last of the so-called "news" shows to go. I don't know why I had the TV on. I was in the kitchen and heard a voice that sounded like the old bastard. And sure enough...

Gwen Ifill should be ASHAMED to be polluting OUR airwaves with that tripe.

More to the point...I posted something a while back, saying, somewhat facetiously, that David Icke was probably right, that creatures like Cheney are probably some reptilian life-form.

It got no response, probably because everyone thought it was too crazy for words. On the other hand, how does one explain such evil?

[Ferretherder]

103. Ain't it the truth!

"More to the point...I posted something a while back, saying, somewhat facetiously, that David Icke was probably right, that creatures like Cheney are probably some reptilian life-form.

It got no response, probably because everyone thought it was too crazy for words. On the other hand, how does one explain such evil?"

The truth, I tell ya'!

[hunter]

18. God, any empathetic person could think of a dozen gracious things to say...

... I know if I had another person's heart I would be determined to make the best of it for everyone.

I would feel deeply in debt to the lost person, their family, and the society that makes such wonders possible. In no way would I feel I "earned" my survival. "MINE" would never occur to me.

Looking for some positive in this, maybe in future histories and historical dramas, Cheney will become the archetypal year 2000 Republican sociopath, the villain of thousands of dramatic artworks so long as humanity exists.

[Billsmile]

21. Some Background Story On Cheney's Heart Donor

[Northerner]

22. That rotten piece of shit doesn’t deserve to know who the angel who donated his own heart to save

another was. May that stinking pile of maggot infested shit (with apologies to maggots) rot in hell.

[adirondacker]

23. "Whoever sent this, might send more"

[Archae]

24. Some coincidences here...

There used to be a DU'er who's real name was Dick Helm.
(He preferred Richard, but didn't mind Dick.)

When he was exposed as a vicious right-winger, he got tombstoned rather quickly.

But he had a heart transplant also.

He also continued to chain-smoke after the transplant, so he didn't last too long.
He died in disgrace, except among his cronies on the Fidonet.
In one instance he gleefully said another poster had "let his wife die."

[CBHagman]

25. That rather reaffirms the impression he made on The NewsHour the other night.

Gwen Ifill, to her credit, repeatedly asked Cheney whether everyone ought to receive the care he received, and he asserted that everyone "in the system" has the same options. When Ifill pressed him again, he said that the country had an interest in the health of the president and vice president -- in other words, he passed right over whether anyone else deserved the same care.

[Enthusiast]

45. His attitude is entirely predictable........nt

[fishwax]

104. I'd say the country has an interest in the health of its citizens too

predictable asshattery from cheney

[WCLinolVir]

26. Nope. Just confirms that I think he is a sociopath.

[blkmusclmachine]

29. When you hear the cold blooded, heartless, and calculating words from Dicks & Georges pie holes,

I really start to wonder about 9/11.

[Enthusiast]

44. Wonder no more.

They did it.

[WCLinolVir]

82. I don't wonder, I think they either let it happen, or coordinated it.

But that would be crazy eh?

[SammyWinstonJack]

90. MIHOP if not then certainly LIHOP. Personally I think it's MIHOP.

[lexington filly]

28. Does anyone but Dick Chaney

even think in these terms? "I ....generically thank donors for the gift that I’ve been given."
He should write Hallmark cards:
Sorry about your Generic Loss.
Glad I could afford the best medical care so I could pick up the pieces.

Years ago I worked for a wonderful liver transplant surgeon at a university. Sometimes I listened to the patients who couldn't afford the so expensive surgeries and years of aftercare meds due to---you guessed it---money. Patients' credit scores not up to par or the insurance company dropped them or were sick for so long, they were broke. How do you not become cynical when you witness the reality of the bottom line: the 'monied" got organs and the others died. If we had millions and millions more donors, what solves the issue that modern medicine offers miracles: if you can afford them.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

36. He's more likely to thank the metal tray that held it.

[blkmusclmachine]

30. Hey, Dick. Satan called. He wants his heart back.

[demwing]

51. Yeeesss! ^^^^ /nt

[TheKentuckian]

31. I think he is considerably even more vile than even that.

[Th1onein]

33. Murdering, torturing black hole of rotting flesh.

Hate is not descriptive enough for the feelings I have for this man. I hope he lives the rest of his life screaming in agony and pain.

[Arugula Latte]

34. I want to put an asterix on my donor consent on my license:

*Organs may not be given to Dick Cheney or any other murderous sociopathic rightwing fascist.

[ogradda]

38. Amen. n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

35. Figures. "It's MINE, do you hear?! MINE! MINE! MINE!"

[valerief]

37. "It's alive! It's alive!" Goddam face-shooting monster. nt

[Demeter]

39. Oh, I'm sure Cheney had his heart donor completely vettted

before the victim was sacrificed on the altar of Dick's godhead.

Talk about the ultimate spoils!

[mwb970]

40. Could the reason he won't die be that he's not human?

I've never experienced pure evil to the extent that I find it in this man. I am 64 now, and this is the ONLY person I have ever wanted to die in my entire life. (We liberals aren't usually like that.) For EIGHT YEARS of the wretched bush maladministration I picked up the paper on my porch EVERY MORNING hoping for the headline "Cheney Dead".

It never came.

[Justice]

41. A family member has a transplanted heart and we speak of the donor and his/her family often

Not sure why Cheney felt he had to say that, but just seems like a big f-u to the donor's family.

It wasn't someone's old heart - it was someone's pretty good heart that could no longer help the donor - so they gave you this precious perfectly good heart.

[Hubert Flottz]

42. All the Dick Monster cares about is...

"I've got mine."

[Enthusiast]

43. Dick Cheney could hardly be a bigger monster than I thought or think now.

Same for his little buddy Dubya too. They ruined the nation. Possibly forever, because it is hardly improving after all these years.

Imagine the very worst your brain can conjure up, square it. This is an approximation of the evil at the heart of that Bush Administration.

[Thucydides]

46. He probably does not want to discover that he has the heart of a caring liberal Democrat.

Because everyone knows that the GOP do not have hearts, even if they did, they would never give them up!

[SummerSnow]

52. He really lives up to his name

[AnneD]

54. I always wondered about his heart transplant....

I was hoping now that he finally had a real heart he would, you know, have a heart. I do not consider the surgery a success and feel sorry that a heart was wasted.

The only other that I would not be so sorry to see go would be Rove. Both are truly boils on the ass of humanity.

[heaven05]

55. I hope he's flushed soon.

he's stinking up the place

[libodem]

56. The twist

In the corner of his upper lip, shows the utter content, he has for the rest of humanity. He is spiteful and hateful.

[L0oniX]

58. He'll kill off that heart too.

[leftyladyfrommo]

59. He's kind of a classic narcissist.

They are completely unable to feel any empathy for anyone.

[warrior1]

60. evil man

[Old and In the Way]

61. I can't say I'm surprised by this.

He may have a beating heart, but he is a heartless bastard. He's a world-class coward and war criminal who obviously doesn't believe in any form of afterlife. On the other hand, he's desperate to stave off any final termination, just in case he's wrong.

[joanbarnes]

62. I wish that heart could have gone to a truly deserving member of society....

[Sheri]

63. VP Cheney is very well-named.

[font size=48]DICK[/font]

[LibDemAlways]

64. My family knew a man who'd had a heart transplant.

He was very Cheney-like, cold as ice. He, too, had no interest in knowing anything about the person who ultimately added 20 years to his life. You'd think the least an organ recipient could do would be to thank the donor and/or his family. Guess some people remain heartless even after the surgery.

[spanone]

65. wow. that kind of arrogance is frightening.

cheney feels entitled to your fucking heart.

k&r...

[proud patriot]

66. Cheney, still creeping me out after all these years

heebee-geebees

[George II]

67. I hope his new "heart" came from a gay black woman! But.....

....they keep calling it his "new" heart, did he ever have one in the first place?

And he seems to find very appropriate times to use "it hadn't been a priority for me" - that's the same expression he used when asked why he didn't serve in the military!

[thefool_wa]

70. Thought they gave him a new heart?

Seems like he's still missing one.

[n2doc]

71. My Precious

I'll bet before they put him under he got to caress the box the heart was in....

[smokey nj]

73. The man is evil incarnate.

[Crunchy Frog]

74. Oh, I don't think that's possible.

Given that I'm convinced that he participates in human sacrifice rituals and drinks the blood of virgins to maintain his condition of animated undeath.

[Captain Stern]

75. I usually try to find the best in people, and give them the benefit of the doubt...

...but it's really hard (impossible?) in Cheney's case.

What a reprehensible piece of shit he is.

[Uncle Joe]

76. That's not possible, but I agree with the spirit of the OP.

Nothing Cheney says or does can reduce his stature anymore to my way of thinking, Cheney is the ever shrinking "man" and he's just being consistent with what I've always believed about him.

Thanks for the thread, WilliamPitt.

[JEFF9K]

77. Cheney must have received a Republican heart.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

81. Disgusting, all I can say.

[polichick]

84. He's a sociopath, and what does it say about our society that...

this sociopath still, after everything he's done, is treated as a statesman?

[icarusxat]

92. A statesman?

who is afraid to travel abroad? Not much of anything if you ask me...waste of space, waste of air, waste of an organ...

[polichick]

93. Those in the media still treat him as a statesman...

amazingly.

Even Dem leaders treat him that way.

[RoccoR5955]

101. No, more like war criminal. n/t

[jsr]

85. Recommend

[Iwillnevergiveup]

86. Cheney is disgusting enough

But what about the audience the press gives him? How many producers imagine anyone has any interest at all in hearing about his heart issues? Much less seeing him on the teevee. Maybe it's like driving next to a car wreck - you can't help yourself, and so you look. The only thing that gives me any satisfaction regarding Cheney is that he knows most people hate him. He doesn't care, of course, but he knows. And he'll die knowing that.

[AndyA]

88. Dick Cheney is vile.

He is a liar. He is a war criminal. He is anti-American. He is corrupt.

He should shut his mouth and disappear forever. He has no room to comment on anything anyone else has done, and the media should consider this before they invite him on any more shows.

If justice were fair and equal in this country, Bushco would all be in prison now, convicted of the many crimes they committed against the American people and the world while in office.

[Quasimodem]

91. Just in time for the season, “A Modern Christmas Carol”

Late on December 24th, 2013, Darth Cheney was interrupted at his evening three-hour hate, by a knock at the door. It was a visit from the shade of Richard Milhous Nixon, who warned him that he will be visited by three ghosts. The following morning reveals the hideous fact that Cheney has stolen the truth from the ghost of the past, the intelligence from the ghost of the present, and the birthright from the ghost of the future.

In great glee, Cheney throws up the sash of his bedroom window and shouts out to a young boy celebrating Christmas morning, calling him a turkey and telling him to get off his lawn. At which point his new heart transplant spontaneously rejects his entire body, and a Merry Christmas is had by one and all.

And the moral of the story, as Tiny Tim is known to have sung, “When strolling through the tulips if you want a clean soul, you’d better tiptoe around the larger clumps of night soil.”

[pink-o]

94. Dick

It's not just a proper noun.

[llmart]

95. There's his favorite line.....

"it wasn't a priority for me".....hmmmmm....just like military service during the Viet Nam War wasn't a priority for him.

Screw this sociopath ten ways to Sunday.

[RufusTFirefly]

96. Dick Dick Dick

... is a killer. (An oldie but a goodie. NSFW.)

[Autumn]

97. "I always thank the donor". How many donors did you thank?

Asshole.

[mountain grammy]

98. Cheney survived several heart attacks and a transplant; even Satan doesn't want him.

[RoccoR5955]

100. You forgot to mention

That the real reason why Cheney is against abortion is because he eats newborn children.

[hog]

105. Asshole

Can you spell asshole?

[IkeRepublican]

108. Bigger monster than we thought...what condescension!

Only article containing his name I'd enjoy is followed by the words "dirt nap".

[grantcart]

109. As a Congressman he was one of a handful of votes to make 'cop killer' bullets legal.

http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/Dick_Cheney_Gun_Control.htm