The No-Dick Rule

[babylonsister]

The No-Dick Rule

Why former Vice President Cheney should no longer be allowed on network TV.
By Fred Kaplan


Dick Cheney should no longer be allowed to appear on network TV talk shows. The issue here is not one of ideology or censorship, but rather of compassion and pity. The former vice president has long been a disgrace to his political office; now he is also an embarrassment to himself.

The devolution hit bottom on Oct. 2, with Candy Crowley’s CNN interview of Cheney and his obeisant daughter, Elizabeth (transcript here). Asked about President Obama’s drone strike that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, Cheney called it “a very good strike … a very effective use of our drone technology,” but then added:

Thing I’m waiting for is for the administration to go back and correct something they said two years ago when they criticized us for “overreacting” to the events of 9/11. They, in effect, said that we had walked away from our ideals, or taken policy contrary to our ideals, when we had enhanced- interrogation techniques. Now they clearly have moved in the direction of taking robust action when they feel it is justified. I say, in this case I think it was, but I think they need to go back and reconsider what the president said when he was in Cairo.

After a few more exchanges of this sort, Crowley said, “You’d like an apology, it sounds like.” Cheney replied, “Well, I would.”

Have we ever had a vice president—especially one as powerful and putatively hard-headed as Cheney—who, after serving two full terms, proved himself so thin-skinned and peevish? Cheney makes Nixon, even in his darker days, seem almost dignified.

More than that, Cheney is simply wrong on multiple counts, and in ways that heighten the impression that we’re dealing with a feeble, foolish man. Let us parse the ways.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2011/10/dick_cheney_s_criticism_of_obama_is_both_undignified_and_inaccur.single.html

[True Blue Door]

1. You watch him. That's all they care about.

I don't watch him. I don't listen to him. I dismiss him completely and absolutely as anything other than an unindicted traitor. The only thing he says that I am willing to hear is a plea before a judge.

[mainstreetonce]

2. No Dick on TV

Ok by me

[hifiguy]

3. DicKKK should be taken out dancing

at the end of a goddamned rope. It was good enough for the German war criminals, so it's good enough for him. I'd prefer impalement but will take a good hanging.

[RoccoR5955]

4. This rule should include more than TV

The No-Dick rule should include anywhere on Earth in public.
He should be locked up somewhere, and not see the light of day until he is dead. When he is dead, his carcass should rot there until it is dust!