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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 11:01 PM Aug 2012

Cheney goes birther?: Praises and promotes tinfoil hat theorist Klein's discredited book on Obama

In an interview with Sean Hannity that aired last night on Fox News, former vice president Dick Cheney praised a new book attacking President Obama called The Amateur by discredited right-wing author Ed Klein, a conspiracy theorist who has promoted claims that Obama is Muslim, wasn’t born in the U.S. and that Bill Clinton raped his wife Hillary. But Cheney appears to believe that all this makes for a good scholar:

HANNITY: You’ve had time to now really study Barack Obama for four years. What do you think you know about him now or believe about him now that you didn’t believe four years ago in terms of his ideology, philosophy, governing philosophy? [...]

CHENEY: One of the things that’s been most enlightening for me is to read this new book that’s out that is — deals with this whole question of competence, and written by Ed Klein, used to be with the “New York Times.” It’s called “The Amateur.”

And it goes into great detail in a whole number of different areas in terms of his philosophy, and why he believes what he did, and how he got there, and how he’s managed or failed to manage in the White House.


http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/07/651861/cheney-ed-klein/
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Cheney goes birther?: Praises and promotes tinfoil hat theorist Klein's discredited book on Obama (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2012 OP
Cheney is desperate Rosa Luxemburg Aug 2012 #1
Dick Cheney has one foot on a banana peel Blue Idaho Aug 2012 #2
This man would do the world a great favor if he just....... ah fuck it. never mind. nt Guy Whitey Corngood Aug 2012 #3
Cheney is Borman Cobalt-60 Aug 2012 #4
Cheney was told to kiss Sara Palins ass in order to keep the proles happy. Now everything she Monk06 Aug 2012 #5
Cheney should STFU and just go away. He's irrelevant. Zoeisright Aug 2012 #6

Cobalt-60

(3,078 posts)
4. Cheney is Borman
Tue Aug 7, 2012, 11:31 PM
Aug 2012

The clanking fossil calling itself Cheney should be careful.
He's a point for point match for Martin Borman.
In terms of physical decay rather than fabricated paperwork, he's a good match for Borman in age.
Attitude and policy are perfect matches too. Indeed, English translations of Borman's statements might have come from Cheney's own mouth.
Every time some ignorant f*ck comes at me with the birther sh*t, I counter flood with a "Cheney is Borman" screed until they just shut up.
Of course i do have to wonder, was it Mengele himself that built Cheney's first Iron Heart?
Remember- Cheney is Borman!

Monk06

(7,675 posts)
5. Cheney was told to kiss Sara Palins ass in order to keep the proles happy. Now everything she
Wed Aug 8, 2012, 12:04 AM
Aug 2012

says he has to agree with. That must piss him off.
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