Wife says Cheney's outburst was out of character

[Cocoa]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5637368

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"He was sorely tried, if I may say so, by someone attacking his integrity and then pretending to be his best friend. I think that's what set it off," Lynne Cheney said on CNN.

"The way Dick did it, it was a private comment. You wouldn't know it from the amount of publicity that it's garnered," she said.

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The vice president later told reporters he had no regrets about the outburst. Still, Lynne Cheney said her husband was not prone to cursing.

"He is such a good man, and more likely to say, 'Put a sock in it' if he's really tried," she said. "I can understand when people are pushed to extremes, that in a private setting they might say something unusual."

[warrior1]

1. She sleeps with the man

and can't sense his evilness, yet she know him on this issue?

Sorry, no can buy this bull shit.

[xultar]

15. Maybe she's scared shitless n/t

[indepat]

38. If she wears pants, surely they are on fire

[mom cat]

39. I wouldn't want to sleep anywhere that vicious monster. I hope

that the dems can make good use of that picture..It's priceless

[shanti]

48. birds of a feather....

why cut her any slack? she's married to the man, she's just like them.

[madrchsod]

2. ya right

i`m sure he never says anything like "go fuck yourself"..hey i believe her.

[enough]

3. I have to ask.

Every time I see that photo I wonder if it's real or photoshopped. Anybody know?

[pinniped]

45. I believe it's real. Other pics of the evil bastard show his mouth...

pulled up on one side. Signs of multiple attempts by the devil to recall his minion back to the dark pits of hell.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. "Put a sock in it?"

As far as the "private setting," the FIRST reports...not the ones that came after tossing the story around for a week, but the "hot off the press, right after it happened" ones...said the outburst came in front of "at least a dozen witnesses."

That isn't a "private setting"...

[coda]

27. Exactly. President of the Senate, on the Senate floor, dozens of witnesses

Plus.....she says Leahy was "...pretending to be his best friend."

BU__SH__!

Lynne "Culture Czaress" Cheney can't tell the truth anymore than her husband, unless it's done inadvertently. Leahy didn't "attack" the VP's integrity.

Telling the truth about Cheney's ties to Halliburton's no-bid contracts just seems like an attack. :-)

[KDLarsen]

37. I don't know why..

.. but the sock comment just gave me a very scary picture - of a tired & crampy Cheney, who arrive at home finding his wife in need of some intimacy and then tells her to put a sock in it :puke:

[Placebo]

5. They have the audacity...

to talk about how the democrats' fundraiser in NYC with all the stars had some colourful language, when cheney is the one who brought it to the floor of the United States Senate.

Whoopi Goldberg isn't going to be vice president of the united states, OKAY necons?!?! (although i'm sure she'd do a better job than dick 'f yourself' cheney.

They are such hyprocrites. if one of their good 'ol boys does it it's perfectly fine.

[Geo55]

6. Lynne....'Put a sock in it' n/t

[pinto]

7. right. he usually says "fuck you, you major league asshole"

[shanti]

bingo!

it's hardly a one time occurence! thanks for the reminder!

[shanti]

50. bingo!

it's hardly a one time occurence! thanks for the reminder!

[daleo]

54. Big time!

n/t

[LittleApple81]

8. Tomorrow's Doonesbury (text only):

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=1969921&mesg_id=1969921

[pinto]

9. memo to Lynne: Congress is not a "private setting".

Just a reminder.

[Manix]

10. The second most detested man in the world.

...and the winner at No. 1 is...yes......B*

[DS1]

11. Normally he would have had Leahy killed. He's slipping.

[wish_I_could_vote]

12. buttwipe

he could have made this all go away by saying he was sorry, he let his anger get the best of him momentarily, he regretted it.....anything ANYTHING but it felt good and I am glad I did it....and then...the balls...the utter balls...to get his little band of thugs to go on TV claiming Leahey was a very bad man...the meanest man in the senate, and he deserved it. Thankfully the polls are showing how much people want him to f off. ( I can say that because I am convinced Bush will never ever replace him )

[NWHarkness]

13. More disinformation

The point of her comments is to once again try to make it seem as if Leahy "had it coming".

These people are despicable.

[flordehinojos]

14. Why is it that I have a hard time believing Lynne Cheney?

Lynne Cheney says the vice-president of the U.S. was "sorely tried" by "someone attacking his integrity and then pretending to be his friend"????

Gooooooooooood ole Dick couldn't deal with hypocrisy? AND BUSH SAYS CHENEY IS 'READY' TO BE PRESIDENT? Aren't these politicians all supposed to grin and bear certain things in the name of congeniality and world peace?

WHAT ABOUT DICK'S HYPOCRISY, BEGINNING WITH HIS HAVING BEEN CHOSEN TO VET BUSH'S PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES IN 2000 AND THEN APPOINTING HIMSELF TO BE BUSH'S VERY OWN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE?

No... it takes more than just Lynne Cheney saying that Dick was set off by the pain of hypocrisy for me to believe it.

ON THE OTHER HAND.... don't the Bushes all, starting with Poppy, down to Jr. and Jebbie, not to mention Babs, all get bent out of shape if anyone criticizes any of them?

YEAH! Maybe Tricky Dickey Cheney getting bent out of shape for not liking it when someone tells the truth about him is something that fits in to a tee with the Bushes penchant for getting bent out of shape when anyone uncovers their true colors. Maybe that is why they make such a good fit. And, despite what Lynne Cheney says, maybe Dick's going off in the way that he did is more of a common affair than Lynne is willing to admit to any of us.

Cheney's comment "I felt better after I said it" certain rings true. Perhaps it is something that he does quite often in order to relieve himself.:evilgrin: :hippie: :cry:

[fdr_hst_fan]

16. Wonder how he'll feel AFTER

Nov 2nd, when he and Smirk are sitting in the Oval Office surrounded by tally sheets that all say the same thing: KERRY WINS IN LANDSLIDE! Bet there'll be a LOT of F words thrown that day!

[Minstrel Boy]

17. In character, Cheney said to Paul Wellstone on the eve of the Iraq vote,

"If you vote against the war in Iraq, the Bush administration will do whatever is necessary to get you. There will be severe ramifications for you and the state of Minnesota."



At a meeting full of war veterans in Willmar, Minn., days before his death, Wellstone told attendees that Cheney told him, "If you vote against the war in Iraq, the Bush administration will do whatever is necessary to get you. There will be severe ramifications for you and the state of Minnesota."

Wellstone cast his vote for his conscience and against the Iraq measure, the lone Democrat involved in a tough 2002 election campaign to do so. And a few weeks later on Oct. 25, as he appeared to be winning his re-election bid, Wellstone, his wife, Sheila, his daughter, Marcia Markuson, three campaign staffers, and two pilots died in a plane crash in Minnesota.

Talk about "severe ramifications."
http://www.liberalslant.com/jt123003.htm

[Placebo]

20. I always assumed they killed him...

that plane crash was just too mysterious, and there was never a real reason given for it crashing just short of the runway.

and now, who's in his formerly proudly held solidly democratic liberal senate seat? why, yet another lackie republican of course!!!

[fdr_hst_fan]

18. Nasty looking old

bugger, isn't he?

[Piperay]

19. Oh, so he was "He was sorely tried"

like the Democrats and the nation haven't been "sorely tried" by all the lies, deceptions and evilness of the bush regime, come on! And "someone attacking his integrity" like what they are doing to Kerry and Edwards and did to the Clinton's for EIGHT YEARS! "Then pretending to be his best friend", oh like what they did to Kennedy when they stabbed him in the back over the prescription drug bill. What I say to that is GO FUCK YOURSELVES cheneyS!

[gulliver]

21. The Vice President's wife does his talking for him.

Cheney doesn't have the class to apologize.

[yellowcanine]

22. Shut up Lynn. Your husband is a prick and everybody knows it.

Maybe instead of enabling him you ought to tell him off when he acts like a jerk and it wouldn't happen so often. There is no excuse for his boorishness. None.

[wolfgirl]

23. Just more

BS! But hey, if cursing were his only fault, I wouldn't care. But we all know that the cursing is just a sign of his contempt for the rest of us. That contempt and the corruption they have brought forward is what curdles me!

[lumpy]

24. The old fart said he was not sorry

and had no regrets. Nice try Lynne.

[bluedeminredstate]

25. Dick really means it when he tells Lynne

to "go fuck yourself."
Ole Crashcart can't help her out in that area anymore.

[Neshanic]

26. Look at that puss. Out of character? How could that be?

Next she's going to say, he would of said "dirty little girl".

[GoldenOldie]

28. "He was sorely tried."

He ain't seen nothin yet!

[lumberingbear]

29. Has anyone....

heard anyone in the * administration apologize for
anything????

[coda]

35. Weelllllll, admiting you are wrong

is the 1st step. :-)

A request for an apology would likely be met with something like:

" I'll not apologize for standing up for the American people on the floor of the Senate, and furthermore, it's treasonous and un-American to even suggest it!"

[Morning Dew]

55. Don't forget to add

"there's a war on, you know."

[glitch]

30. Sounds like "I'm glad I said it" isn't playing well - Good! nt

[truthisfreedom]

31. hey thanks, lynne... you're helping us see that your husband can't HANDLE

his job. what you're saying, in your own clearly confused way, is that he CAN'T CONDUCT himself with decorum BECAUSE HE CAN'T HANDLE THE STRESS because he's ON THE VERGE OF CRACKING UP.

more and more hints about cheney being on the verge of "snapping" are coming up. next, bush will have to drop him for criminal reasons, and when he has to choose McCain, whom i personally don't hate, all of the old video tapes of him attacking McCain during the 2000 primary will come to the surface and become part of the Democratic campaign. tsk tsk tsk... if Congress hands the power to delay the election to Tommy Ridge, the whole idea of a free country will be completely in the sh*tter, and i have a feeling Canada's borders will burst.

[coda]

32. " Out of Character Vulgarity by Cheney Gets "F***'em ALL!! " nod from *.

Film at 11 (oh how I wish) ;-)

[against all enemies]

33. He usually attacks, Or has someone else do it, he has "other priorities"

[2cents]

34. Next question:

Does she put a sock in it when he's really tired. :P

[fla nocount]

36. Fuck you, fuck you very much........what a sweetheart. n/t

[gauguin57]

40. Mrs. Beelzebub ...

needs to check her facts.

Private setting? Try a setting that couldn't get more "public."

The SENATE CHAMBER BELONGS TO US. We, the people. As in PUBLIC.

I think her last facelift was a bit too tight ... it's cutting off circulation to her brain.

[DemoTex]

41. Lynn Cheney deals jewelry with a Dallas outlaw ... Rebecca Collins.

Rebecca Collins lived across the street from me on Cragmont Avenue in Dallas (75205). Lynn Cheney would pull up every few months, with her SS entourage, to buy designer jewelry from Collins. The problem was Collins was running a big business from her house that was against Dallas zoning ordinances. She had a staff that parked on our street everyday, and sometimes blocked my driveway. I regularly complained, through city channels, and would get a case number. Anyone else would have been busted. Not to fear though: Collins' next door neighbor, a dear liberal friend of mine with considerably more political clout than I had, has taken up my fallen banner.

I think it was a DUer who said, a couple of years back, that Lynn Cheney always looks as if she were eating a bowl of black scorpions. Actually, I think that is what Dick and Lynn both have for breakfast every morning. Black scorpions and cream.

BTW: Rebecca Collins also has a shop (Rebecca Collins) at the Preston/NW Highway complex, kind of behind Houston's. She also has an internet trade. She is super right-wing and should be avoided like a bowl of black scorpions (for the normal among us). Verb sap!



Yum, great bowl of black scorpions. What a great after-taste!

[Chicago Democrat]

42. He looks like the Evil guy from Star wars...Or Sauron

Yikes!

[The_Casual_Observer]

43. A hot poker up your ass, wife of cheney?

You and your liar husband should be sent up the river, like those other no good enron bastards.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. A simple case of PMS?

pre-mentalpause syndrome

[cliss]

46. If you want to see something really scary,

try this: scroll up to the big photo of Big dick. Take your hand, and cover up the left half of his face. Look closely.

Isn't that unbelievable? Dick looks like a viper, a cobra ready to strike. That mouth, curled in a permanent snarl. Now look at the left side. It's not as vicious.

I read a book a few years back called 'Reading Faces'. Dick Cheney is a classic 'split personality'. If the two halves of the face are radically different, then the person is struggling with huge issues, like a babysitter who strangles kids, or a priest who, well....you know.

[Ilsa]

47. I wonder if he's had a stroke that partially paralyzed

some muscles or cranial nerves.

[Twenty3]

49. What Would Dr. Laura Say?

I know exactly what she'd say, since I listened to her every day for years (during my Dittohead phase).

People would always call up & confess to this or that, and say it was totally out of character. And she never let 'em get away with it. "You did it, therefore it must be in your character. What you do REVEALS your character."

Just a thought.

[antigone382]

51. ugh, I could just vomit

No words to express my absolute disgust at their unmitigated hypocrisy. Oh well, nothing new there.

Oh, and memo to Mrs. Cheney: the floor of the Senate is not a private place. Nor is it an unnecessary attack to suggest that the VP's awarding lucrative contracts to a former employer is a conflict of interests.

[Tellurian]

52. So, he's allergic to apologys? nt

[Media_Lies_Daily]

53. Lynne should do stand-up comedy...that was a real knee-slapper!

[scarface2004]

56. he usually says..

i m the last guy in the world you wanna fuck with!

[VolcanoJen]

57. I mean, really. Who would expect the VP's comments to draw interest?

:eyes:

I'm so weary of their "Washington Outsider Mary Poppins" act.

[Hekate]

58. I'd like to "sorely try" Cheney all right...

...in front of a judge and jury!

Ye gods, what a blood-curdling face that man has. Photos from his younger days show a relatively good looking man -- His actions and choices over the past couple of decades must have been damnable indeed to leave such a mark on his demeanor.

As for Lynne, his lovely wife, she spent that same period of time up to her eyeballs in Neocon think tanks. After W's selection it was Lynne who kept a steady stream of suitable resumes flowing into the White House. One of the biggest mistakes made by Democrats and the media has been to underestimate and trivialize the Bushwomen by critiquing their hair and makeup while ignoring their affiliations and work backgrounds.

Hekate

[saracat]

59. Let Me Understand This.

He was sorely tried, if I may say so, by someone attacking his integrity and then pretending to be his best friend.

(So Vice Is "sorely tried" by politics)

"I can understand when people are pushed to extremes, that in a private setting they might say something unusual."

(And the Vice thinks the senate floor on picture taking day is "private".)

He lives in quite an unusual world doesn't he?

[bushisanidiot]

60. I Bet Dick has a BIG Life Insurance Policy out on his "beloved" wife..

she also spoke "out of turn" recently about the anti-marriage amendment dick & AWOL are trying to pass.. apparently, she seems to think it's a states rights issue. hmmm..

[cap]

61. everything on the Senate floor is on public record

he knows this and had just lost control of himself.

If we had a left wing media with the vitriol of the right wing media, this would have exploded into the "Dean scream", ie Cheney can't control himself and is too unstable to be sitting a heart beat away from the presidency.

[leesa]

62. Right. He usually just pays someone to break their legs

Or arranges a light plane accident.

[CBHagman]

63. Actions speak louder than words...

..although Dick's digs were the curse heard 'round the world.

Anyway, we've had decades of rude, selfish behavior from Cheney, and we're supposed to believe a nasty cussing-out was out of character? Spare me, lady.

[jeanmarc]

64. Keep talking about it, Lynne!

All it does is revive the issue! Keep apologizing!

[tom_paine]

65. In other news: Eva Braun says Hitler a "Sweet Teddy Bear"

Yawn.

What else would Amerikan Vice-Eva say?

She loves her evil Fuhrer. It must be Scroogilistically funtastic at the Cheney Palace during Christmas!

Not all Scrooges are lonesome. Someonetimes they find each other and BREED.

Soimetimes they seize a Free Nation, steal it, defraud it, lie to it, drag it through the mud and destroy it...