Politico Cuts Live Feed as Protester with Handcuffs Tries to Arrest Dick Cheney

[Hissyspit]

Source: Raw Story

By David Edwards
Monday, July 14, 2014 13:19 EDT

Politico’s live stream of an interview with Dick Cheney and his family cut to black on Monday just as a protester with handcuffs accused the former vice president of being a war criminal.

Host Mike Allen began the “Politico Playbook” event by asking Dick Cheney, his wife Lynne, and his daughter Liz if they talked about politics at home.

After Lynne Cheney took a jab at Hillary Clinton by saying that she was not “dead broke” when her husband was nominated for vice president in 2000, Liz Cheney complimented her parents for involving their children in politics from an early age.

About that time, someone in the audience began to yell that Dick Cheney was a “war criminal,” which caused Lynne Cheney to chuckle.

“Four more years! Four more years!” Liz Cheney shouted.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/07/14/politico-cuts-live-feed-as-protester-with-handcuffs-tries-to-arrest-dick-cheney/

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

1. I don't blame Politico for doing that...

Had it turned out to be a nutcase with a gun, that's not something you want streaming on live video. Granted, it was an otherwise harmless protestor, but I think I would have done the same thing. Just in case.

[Omaha Steve]

3. Lee Harvey Oswald

Killed on live national TV.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

4. Doesn't make broadcasting it a good idea (nt)

[Omaha Steve]

11. Live events on TV are open to this kind of thing

It is a risk.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

42. Which is why...

if a situation is starting to turn south, you should shut off the live feed.

[mbperrin]

8. This timid attitude is why we get no coverage from wars any more.

Just some smiling doofus with a microphone in front of a 4 star hotel somewhere yakking and yakking on a visual medium.

And then at the end of the video, Politico won't even own their action - "technical problems" horseshit.

[QuestForSense]

18. I agree wholeheartedly.

[Duppers]

24. +100

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

43. This timid attitude?

It's called being responsible. If somebody is going to pull out a gun and start blazing away, we don't need the gore of it all broadcast live.

[mbperrin]

50. No news in your news, eh?

Yeah, we do need the gore. We need the flag-draped coffins. We need the bodies of children piled high.

THEN and only then, can we see the consequences of our current behavior.

Any comment on them pretending it was "technical difficulties" rather than an edit of live TV? Why do you suppose they didn't just say what you did? - that "we were afraid there would be gore, and you don't need that?" Peculiar sort of lie, isn't it? Technical difficulties.

[Enrique]

10. does that apply to all hecklers?

or just to Dick Cheney hecklers?

that said, I didn't see exactly what Politico did. Raw Story sometimes gooses their stories up.

[geardaddy]

2. The Cheneys are a cancer on our society.

Lynne Cheney chuckles at the thought of her husband being a war criminal and Liz taunts the protester. These people need to be jailed.

[EX500rider]

17. What have Liz and Lynne done that requires jail time?

Or do all people you don't like belong in jail?

[geardaddy]

19. No, they don't belong in jail

but Dick does.

[mbperrin]

5. Amazing the pandering that goes on for the Cheney family.

The one female protester was so far away that you can't even make out her face, and daughter Cheney thought it was amusing enough to yell "Four more years!" back.

Glad to see that Dick appears to be slipping - slurred speech, slumped posture, twisted upper torso.

And then the chickenshit voiceover at the end that "technical problems" were involved in the feed.

Never much cared for Politico before, and now I'll never use anything from them again.

[RufusTFirefly]

12. Who funds and runs the Politico?

Who funds and runs the Politico?
A longtime Reaganite is the president and CEO of the Politico. Are we supposed to believe that to be irrelevant to its political coverage?

The Politico‘s biggest boosters are Matt Drudge and George W. Bush, and it is run by a Reagan loyalist. At the very least, those facts are worth considering. Given that Editor-in-Chief John Harris has repeatedly vowed to be more “transparent” in how they conduct themselves, shouldn’t we have some understanding of the role played by (chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation Frederick J.) Ryan, and what his connection is to “Allbritton Communications,” whose “deep pockets” are (partially? fully?) financing The Politico?

More here: Who funds and runs the Politico?

[Fred Sanders]

20. Great post. The corruption of the media is not going to be reported by the corrupt media.

[Duval]

28. Exactly, Fred n/t

[Enthusiast]

32. +1!

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. That should be an OP.

Please consider posting the info. so more people can see it?

[RufusTFirefly]

25. Thanks. I bring it up periodically when someone cites Politico as a reliable source. n/t

[arcane1]

29. I assumed they were, for some reason. I second the motion to make that an OP!

Forthwith!

[RufusTFirefly]

37. I now see that Ryan left Politico late last year. He still has an advisory role though.

Politico is owned by Allbritton Communications. The Allbritton family recently sold off a number of TV stations to Sinclair and once owned the notorious Riggs Bank, where such inspiring symbols of democracy as the Saudi royal family and Augusto Pinochet had accounts.

Now that Ryan is gone, I'm no longer clear on who's setting the tone for Politico. Although I seriously doubt that they would undergo a dramatic shift in ideology, a full-fledged OP that relied on anything other than hunches and hearsay would require considerable digging.

[Enthusiast]

33. +1!

[DinahMoeHum]

6. Betcha the protester is a Code Pink activist. . .

. . .probably founder Medea Benjamin. . .

[kas125]

34. It wasn't Medea, it was

Alli McCracken.

[Kali]

7. should happen every time he crawls/rolls out of his hidey hole

[newfie11]

13. Yep, I would love to see this happen. Nt

[blkmusclmachine]

9. http://www.theeverlastinggopstoppers.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/dick-cheney.jpg

[mainstreetonce]

14. What does four more years mean?

They want the present administration to go on for four more years?

[Enrique]

15. good point

Liz Cheney's chanting wasn't well thought out.

[tosh]

16. Yeah, that's what I want to know.

What DOES that mean?

[Enrique]

21. i think i figured it out

she meant to say "USA! USA! USA!" which is what they always do to respond to hecklers. Liz seems to have mixed up her mindless chants.

[tosh]

27. She probably meant

FOUR MORE YEARS of War Profiteering.

She was so caught up in the war-mongering that she forgot where she was.

[DonViejo]

45. She was ridiculing the protester...

AND accusing her of being an Obama supporter.

[eppur_se_muova]

38. I was thinking four years to life ... with life preferred. nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

22. Someone needs to figure out exactly how much money he made off the office....

And then TAKE IT BACK.

[arcane1]

30. How much he made, and is still making! n/t

[Spitfire of ATJ]

39. Chris Mathews said today, "He's not going away."....

That's why he needs to be PUT away.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

26. The Cheneys should never be able to show their faces in public

without a mass of protesters there to shame them back into their coffins. I'm not advocating violence towards the creeps but vocal public shaming at any and all public appearances.

[24601]

40. So what will be your reaction when, in February 2017, an anti-drone-strike protestor tries

to arrest former Vice-President Biden for murder?

Justified or just another case of partisan situational ethics? I hold that VP Biden is nor responsible, legally or morally for anything ordered by President Obama.

Presidents give orders directly to department and independent agency chiefs. Vice Presidents are not in any chain of command and, other than as acting President under the 25th amendment, can order nothing beyond a cup of coffee. Vice Presidents are not Deputy Commanders in Chief and their authority is limited to presiding over the Senate and their personal staffs.

Authority may be delegated. Responsibility cannot be.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

46. Where've you been since 2000? In a cave?

I don't give a fuck whether Cheney was formally in the chain of command. He held de facto power in the White House. I don't think there's a single authority either in politics or journalism who would question that Cheney and his policies were the principal propelling force that took us into Iraq. Cheney was the guy calling the shots for George Bush, who knew very little about national office, from ordering George Bush to appoint John Bolton, from all out invasion in Iraq, to outing a CIA agent. You've got to be the only person I've read who doesn't acknowledge this and the fact he was the most influential vice president in the modern era. And are you comparing what Cheney did to what Biden could potentially be accused of because of what Obama has done? This is more than an issue of partisan politics. It's a moral debate over good and evil. I cannot believe you are trying to equate the Obama administration with the previous one regarding military action.

A good book for you to read would be one by two-time Pullitzer Prize winning New York Times journalist Holcomb Noble: "Cheney's War Crimes: The Reign of a De Facto President".

Sorry you don't like the fact I approve of people who speak out against Cheney at his public appearances. Nah, I'm not really sorry.

[Brigid]

31. It was a stupid, empty stunt anyway.

Of course Dick Cheney belongs in jail, along with the rest of the Bush regime. But this is just mindless posturing, and a waste of time, and does nothing for our side. I really don't blame politico for cutting the feed.

[sgtbenobo]

35. Cool with cutting the feed? Really?

I guess the revolution won't be televised. No wonder Democrats are perceived as having no spine.

Gang, Dick is just plain evil. It's high time to take off the kid gloves and get our party dresses dirty.

God forbid anybody to say, "War Criminal," when really it's the only thing that should be said.

Thanks for nothing. Losers.

[m-lekktor]

49. i seriously doubt anybody with a brain thinks the hecklers are Democrats.

as evidenced by some of the sneering responses in this thread, DEMS are too high and mighty for that sort of thing. it's why i have little use for the status quo, not quite as bad party anymore.

[hughee99]

36. No offense to those who support this, but it will be newsworthy when Eric Holder tries to

put the cuffs on Cheney (like that's ever going to happen). Until then, it's just theater.

[Solly Mack]

41. What kind of country doesn't imprison its war criminals?

[Sunlei]

44. Everytime he shows his face in public someone will shout at him.

You're a citizen of Dubai Cheney. Dubai is your home now. Go home to where your woman are second class citizens and it is a crime to be gay.

[Marie Marie]

47. What a lovely family of lovely family values.

They all deserve each other.

[YOHABLO]

48. Cheney should be heckled and booed where ever he goes. We should make him as uncomfortable

as we can. Since we can not send him to jail with his boy Bush, let's never give him rest till that mechanical ticker quits working.