New wingnut talking point: Cheney's a "teetotaler"

[11 Bravo]

Hannity said it yesterday afternoon, Carl Cameron said it last night, and Mary Matalin said it yesterday and again this morning. What, then, are we to make of the two times the sonuvabitch has been popped for DWI? The delay in interviewing him, coupled with a full court press hammering the message that Crashcart doesn't drink, leads me to believe that the fat bastard was shit-faced, commode-hugging drunk when he nailed his buddy.
We can get into the fact that this fine, upright, Christian, gentleman was holed up in a cozy hide-away with a woman other than his wife at a later date.

[KittyWampus]

1. He admitted he had a beer for lunch. Is alchohol contraindicated with

his heart medication?

[Missy M]

2. I thought Cheney already admitted to drinking a beer...

at lunch that day. Is beer now considered tea?

[txindy]

5. He did say that. His flunkies aren't keeping up with Darth's own words.

Or this is yet another version of, "Don't listen to what was just said, pay attention to what I'm saying NOW." :eyes:

[zbdent]

17. Does this mean that a beer is to "no alcohol" like

a blowjob is to "not sex"?

(That ought to piss off the anti-Clinton crowd) . . . :evilgrin:

[Missy M]

19. I guess we will have to define the meaning of "no alcohol"...

does "no alcohol" mean he was not drinking it at the moment he shot the man in the face. I think that will be their definition. Also, we must never forget it "wasn't about the sex, it was about the lie". How many times did we hear that from the Republicans?

[warrens]

20. It's like the vegetarian in the new Outback ad

The one who eats beef. And pork. And chicken. "I'm semi-veg."

These Repukes are just shameless. They'll say or do anything to stay in power. Fortunately, it ain't working anymore.

[11 Bravo]

21. HEY! Oral sex between consenting adults is a threat to ...

the sanctity of the Republic. The Vice President of the United States getting liquored up and blasting away at anything that moves is a mere personal peccadillo. Why do you hate America?

[Katherine Brengle]

33. LMAO!!! n/t

[Chiyo-chichi]

3. Cheney said that he had a beer with lunch.

Fox did not air that part of the interview.

If you have "a beer" then you are not a "teetotaler."

[Tesla]

4. I wonder how big of beer that was!!

I bet he was stinkin.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. This big

[mikeytherat]

13. I prefer Suntory, but Sapporo's s'OK.

mikey_the_rat

[DemonFighterLives]

12. Big Eddy cracked me up yesterday

He gives away 64 Oz mugs and said if Gfy cheney had one of those Big Eddy mugs, he would have still been buzzed at 5:00.

I was on a jury lately where the girl said she had a beer and in the trial it switched to 2 and 1/2 beers, but she blew a .17 which would have required her to have drank 8 beers in the time specified. Shooters or jello shots were not counted.

[txindy]

23. And Armstrong said he'd had a cocktail after the ambulance took Harry away

Armstrong, a longtime friend of the Cheney family, told CNN before the vice president's interview that she never saw Cheney or Whittington "drink at all on the day of the shooting until after the accident occurred, when the vice president fixed himself a cocktail back at the house."

Cheney was not asked Wednesday about the fact that he was not interviewed by police until the morning after the shooting.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/15/cheney/index.html

Their coordinated stories slip in the most interesting places.

[Chiyo-chichi]

30. Woah. I missed the cocktail.

But...but... he's a teetotaler.... I'm... so... confused....



Why does Merriam-Webster lie? Why does Merriam-Webster hate America?

[txindy]

40. I was shocked, myself.

Merriam-Webster plays "The Blame Game." My faith has been severely shaken.







;)

[rodeodance]

6. a teetoler who has a beer for lunch. And no one called these Wingies on

that as they talked.

[mikeytherat]

7. That just means he gets shitfaced and goes golfing

He can't drive worth a damn, and divots the hell out of the tee, therefore a tee-totaler.

You don't even wanna know what he does when he plays badmitton...

mikey_the_rat

[Dees]

9. I'm always amazed at people who say I'm a teetotaler

and in the next breath say Oh I drink wine and beer.

[existentialist]

10. wingnut fabrication

These statements are simply more evidence that the wingnuts will make up anything that sounds good to them at the time.

There was also a picture of Cheney with what certainly looked to be a wineglass (with white wine) in front of him at a formal dinner posted here on DU in the past few days.

[Norquist Nemesis]

11. Hmmm, so no Irish Coffee with his Swiss Miss? n/t

[LibDemAlways]

14. "fine, upright Christian gentleman"

Does Cheney even pretend to be a Christian? I know chimp does (not very convincingly), but I've never heard anyone describe Cheney that way. I'm sure it's written down somewhere that he belongs to a particular Protestant denomination, but it's a giant stretch for even the most jaded kool-aid drinker to claim that the evil SOB has any religious or moral values.

Hannity and Matalin get paid big bucks to lie. Doesn't Matalin work for Cheney? She ought to pay attention to what he says before she goes into spin mode. Ends up looking ridiculous when he flat-out contradicts her.

[KitchenWitch]

15. Just one beer-> Not a teetotaler

Teetotalers drink NO alcohol.

[mzteris]

16. He said he had a beer!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060216/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney

Cheney said he had had a beer at lunch that day but nobody was drinking when they went back out to hunt a couple hours later. Law enforcement officials have ruled out alcohol as a factor.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. First Thing I Thought Too!

Hey morons! He SAID HE HAD A BEER! Teatotalers don't have a beer with lunch. Hence the term TEA - TOTALER! Duh!
The Professor

[SillyGoose]

18. This is more of the spin. So far they've told us Whittington wasn't

badly injured, that Whittington was only "peppered", that the accident was Whittington's fault, that Armstrong was an eyewitness, that there was no alcohol involved and now that Cheney is a "teetotaler". None of this is true. Cheney himself refuted some of the BS yesterday in his cozy interview with Brit Hume and yet, they're still spewing bullshit. Matalin, Rove and Gawd knows who else have been working over-time since Saturday night concocting CYA talking points for their media cronies to dish out.

This is how this White House operates. They baffle us with bullshit at every turn. The truth always seems to take a backseat with this bunch.

[Poiuyt]

22. And he had a cocktail after he shot the man in the face

Armstrong, a longtime friend of the Cheney family, told CNN before the vice president's interview that she never saw Cheney or Whittington "drink at all on the day of the shooting until after the accident occurred, when the vice president fixed himself a cocktail back at the house."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/15/cheney/index.html

[Ganja Ninja]

28. "It's hard work." n/t

[kayice]

31. Yeah, prolly in case the cops showed up....

"Oh, I just had a cocktail to steady my nerves, but I only had a beer at lunch." Too late for that alcohol test, officer! You should have come right out to the ranch before we had evening cocktails.

[alarcojon]

41. Good catch!

I hadn't seen this before. So he admits to drinking before AND after the shooting? And the lapdogs are calling him a teetotaler?

Wow.

[Ganja Ninja]

24. Yeah, Long Island Ice Tea. n/t

[SPKrazy]

25. I Think They Meant "T'd off and totally wasted"!!!!!

Anyone that thinks beer isn't really alcohol is just blowing smoke up our butts.

And the Armstrong woman's comments about him "fixing a cocktail" afterwards, I don't think she meant shrimp cocktail.

He was ticked off at Whittington, and totally wasted, shot at the millionaire lawyer, then his secret service detail and whoever else stopped him from re-loading. The medics tended to Whittington. They took Cheney back to the ranch house, tried to sober him up but realized he was too wasted so they asked the Sheriff to meet with him the next day.

Who knows? Maybe they weren't even hunting, maybe they were (Cheney and Willeford Swiss Miss) were at it in a black suburban and Whittington walked up on them and Cheney, being paranoid of terrorists thought Whittington to be one and shot him?

Who the hell knows

He isn't a teetotaler though, obviously. And he was hunting with an attractive woman who was not his wife.

[SPKrazy]

26. Dupe, Sorry

[ck4829]

27. I'M a teetotaler

And I have a hunch that Cheney's not.

[kayice]

32. Not a chance, and I grew in a family of drinkers......

I have heard excuses and tricks like Armstrong and Cheney's before. Just because he is a heart patient, people assume he doesn't drink....bull!

[leftofthedial]

29. plus we know he had "a beer" with lunch

and "a cocktail" the evening after he shot a 78-year-old man in the face with his shotgun

teetotallers don't drink.

[johnnie]

35. That's like saying..

"george bush is just a little stupid".

[Vanje]

36. The right used to be real good at organizing their talk points

This one isnt going to fly far:
New wingnut talking point: Cheney's a "teetotaler"

I take it Karl Rove , father of talking points is distracted, or maybe the stories are true that karl and the veeps office are not on best terms.

[ryan_cats]

37. I believe he's a teetotaler.

I believe he's a teetotaler. That is if we believe the word 'teetotaler' to mean drunk as a skunk evil overlord and murderer of too many innocents to count. Yeah, he's a teetotaler.

[underpants]

38. Really? God that is funny. Sad but funny

He admitted, with his own mouth, to having a beer THAT DAY!

It has been reported that he had one while Whittington was on the way to the hospital!!

I actually laugh out loud at the news these days. It is like some weird satire. I stopped watching the Today Show and just watch CNN if it is going to be weird it might as well be funny weird not that creepy GE bombmaking weird.

Teetotaler amazing.

[Swamp Rat]

39. Wrong! He's a "toeteetler."

:D

[Tesla]

42. I wonder who cleaned up his pants!!!

Oh shit, I shot a Lawyer, he said he was just an acquaintance with.

I've been drinking beer all day.....

Can't talk to the cops.....


No one's business that I shot a man, tell them to Go FUCK OFF!!!


Aren't we proud we have such a wonderful VP!

[NoPasaran]

43. Nonsense

Just because he prefers drinking human blood doesn't make him a teetotaler.