The CIA's code name for Cheney is "Edgar"

[Canuckistanian]

As in Edgar Bergen.


(Edgar's the one on the right)

Apparently, this fact is taken from Ron Suskind's new book, "The One Percent Doctrine"
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/06/ron_suskinds_ne.html

As heard on Randy Rhode's show.

[blogslut]

1. Who is his dummy?

Now let me think....dummy, puppet...possible code name Charlie McCarthy...no wait Charlie McCarthy was smart....hmmmm

[Canuckistanian]

5. And witty as well

W.C. Fields: "I hear your father was a peg-legged table"

Charlie McCarthy: "If he was, YOUR father was under it"

[norml]

6. Here's Dubya, as Mortimer Snerd.

[Canuckistanian]

7. Very lifelike

More lifelike than this:

[norml]

11. I actually have one exactly like this, that I found in a thrift store.

http://www.snerdville.com/

[oasis]

12. Looks like Dubya's nephew, Pierce.

:P

[wicket]

22. Cool!

I'm jealous :)

[Marie26]

2. LOL

Wow, they really hate him, don't they?

[me b zola]

13. Yeah they do

I wonder if revealing his code name could maybe be a shot across the bow? I'm guessin' that they know all kinds of little details about Edgar.

[Canuckistanian]

14. My guess is...

That they hate this admin SO MUCH (at least the career guys) that they would do ANYTHING, including psy-ops and covert stuff to bring them down.

Remember, Cheney and his ilk drew first blood against the CIA. They've always hated any agency that was even partially out of their control.

[babylonsister]

3. That's telling... but he's still a dick to me. nt

[vickitulsa]

4. Before I clicked through to see the explanation,

my first guess was Edgar as in J. Edgar Hoover! har har

Edgar Bergen is way better!

[MagickMuffin]

8. My first thought was Edgar Allen Poe

but agree Edgar Bergen is WAY Better!

[norml]

9. Here's a group photo of Dubya, Rice, Cheney, and Rumsfeld.

[Warren DeMontague]

10. "Edgar? Edgar's a fat kid who eats paste" nt

[Canuckistanian]

15. Something for the "cultural history buffs"

Edgar Bergen is the father of Candice Bergen, star of the old "Murphy Brown" TV series, who was chastised by none other than former veep Dan Quayle for portraying a character who had a child "out of wedlock".

Of course, this was a fictional pregnancy, but what's a "little white lie" among Faux-fundies?

[PDittie]

16. CIA or Secret Service?

Are they different? The code names, I'm referring to ...

[Canuckistanian]

24. I don't know

I imagine they would be, they're completely different branches of government with different purposes.

And Cheney isn't trying to destroy the Secret Service.

[PDittie]

17. It's not code name but nickname

according to your link to Brad DeLong above above.

[silverojo]

18. I'd have thought it'd be something more appropriate

Like "Cocksucker".

:evilgrin:

[underpants]

19. First Reagan and now Bush

with a sprinkling of Quayle mixed in there.

Figureheads all of them. That doesn't however let them off the hook.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. "Elmer", as in Fudd, would be more appropriate.

[wicket]

21. Candace Bergen's father

A very talented family. I had never heard that about Cheney but it's awful funny! :rofl:

[wicket]

23. kick

:kick:

[AngryAmish]

25. I thought it was "Big Time"