Chip Reid: Leave Dick Cheney Alone!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkbvSI8Sjj4&eurl=http://wonkette.com/407032/press-corps-to-gibbs-you-watch-what-you-say-about-dick-cheney

Chipe Reid to Robert Gibbs:

"Can I ask...when you referred to the vice president. That was...that was a really hard hitting kind of sarcastic response you had. This is a former vice president of the United States! Is that ff...is that the attitude? Is that the uh...uh...Is that the sanctioned tone toward the former vice president of the United States from this White House?"

[valerief]

1. Another piece of vomit masquerading as a journalist. nt

[Thrill]

2. Did he have a problem with Cheney bashing Obama?

Was he so offended? He's a prick

[msongs]

3. the same dick cheney who shotgunned his own friend...in the face? lol nt

[Joe Bacon]

33. Yep, the same DICK who said F&*K YOU to Senator Leahy!

Yet, little Chippy thinks THE DICK is such a fine Christian gentleman :sarcasm:

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. What a douche. So fucking what if he is a former vice president?

He's not a king or a deity or anything more than a politician. That goes for every elected or in some cases unelected (yeah I'm looking at you Jr.) official.

[Phx_Dem]

5. No, I don't think we will. But I'm sure Dick appreciates your concern Chip.

:cry:

[ProSense]

6. Reminds me of this

Video

Dick Cheney is a war criminal.

Monday, March 16, 2009

No More Debate About Whether We Tortured

Brian Tamanaha

This article by Mark Danner in the New York Review of Books ends the debate over whether we tortured.

Danner's article is based upon a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which interviewed prisoners. The report explicitly concludes that we "tortured" a number of prisoners. But don't take the ICRC's word for it. Read the extensive accounts by the prisoners of their treatment and decide for yourself (although they were kept in isolation, their accounts substantially coincide).

Grotesque is the word that comes to mind to describe our treatment of these fellow humans--from administering bouts of suffocation, to extreme cold, to forced standing in chains for hours on end with their hands above their heads, to terrible beatings.

As the discussion moves forward, let us at least drop further hypocrisy and doublespeak (A soon to be infamous Bush statement made directly to the American people and the world: "The United States does not torture. It's against the law, and it's against our values.")

In plain terms, this is what happened: Bush Administration officials, with crucial assistance from top Justice Department lawyers, ordered that prisoners be tortured because they collectively thought it was necessary.

Torture was and is illegal under domestic and international law (never mind morality). Now the questions revolve around what can or should be done about it.

But please, no more pretense--no more phony debates about whether our "alternative procedures" amounted to "torture."

[Mz Pip]

7. Criticism of Cheney

is mild in comparison to the crap thrown at Al Gore.

Get a grip Chip. Cheney is a private citizen now who chooses to stay in the public eye with his talk show appearances. He's fair game IMO.

[Phx_Dem]

8. Translation: "You're supposed to let Dick shit all over you,

and like it. WTF is wrong with you people?"

[Vinca]

9. Chip must have a man crush. nt

[Clintonista2]

26. He must be gay. Never heard that one before.

:eyes:

[Vinca]

31. That's not what I said, but twist it to your own agenda I guess.

[snowbear]

10. Chip Reid today:

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"Leave Dick Cheney alone!!!!

[Wapsie B]

11. Oh good, the repugs pull the victim card again.

I thought the age of victimization was over.

[TEXASYANKEE]

12. What a difference an Administration makes.

Was the media so "caring" about Al Gore??

[Xipe Totec]

13. That's no way to talk about Dick "go fuck yourself" Cheney! n/t

[pleah]

14. Chirpy Red is a journalist?

Could have fooled me.

[FrenchieCat]

15. So it is ok to say that our new President has not kept us safe.

Cause that's soooo respectful! :eyes:

[Cha]

16. And chip reid said "Democrats reared their ugly

heads", last week. Is that the attitude towards Dems, chip?

Spare me your concern for darth fucking vader, a$$hole.

[Imagevision]

17. Are we talking about the same go_fu*k_yourself Cheney - that one?

[Political Tiger]

18. It's hard to take anyone named "Chip" seriously.....

n/t

[tomm2thumbs]

19. I am an American and I 'sanction that tone' - happy now?

[Cha]

20. "Who Was The Bigger Dick?"

"cheney or john king?" Excellent question..

<snip>

"To the surprise of no one, Dick Cheney's first post-long-national-nightmare-is-over interview was a recitation of his usual crap (although he did spice things up with a warning to America, along with a declaration of love for Rush Limbaugh).

So instead rehashing what Dick had to say, let's take a look at the performance by John King ... because let's face it; when an interview with the most controversial Vice President in history begins with:

President Obama urges absolute confidence in the struggling economy, but can the country afford his ambitious plans?

... you know that you're looking at an hour chock full of fair and balanced.

And leaving out the times King would state an Obama policy, with the question being, "is that how you see it," let's take a look at a few of the feet-charring moments Cheney faced:

<snip>

"And after letting Cheney blather on about how torture works, and how it helped the Bush administration stop "a great many 9/11's" (although he couldn't tell King about them because then he'd have to kill him), King came back with this devastating follow-up:

Much more of our conversation with the former Vice President Dick Cheney ahead. What's life like after the vice presidency, and how's his health? We'll ask when our exclusive interview with Mr. Cheney continues in just a moment. Don't go anywhere."

<read more>
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/16/21035/2823/861/709023

[Imagevision]

21. Why would anyone with a nice name like Richard want to be called Dick all his life?

[zulchzulu]

22. So a former VP can say the President is endangering the country and not get responded to?

Wow. What page is that in the manual?

[SemiCharmedQuark]

25. Former > Present

Apparently.

[Hutzpa]

23. FUCK YOU Chip!!!!!!!!!!!

go do your homework and find out why AIG is using tax payers hard earn
cash to pay its executives??

Dick Head.......

[WinkyDink]

24. Would that be like Bush 41's calling Clinton and Gore "Bozos", and the latter, "Ozone Man"?

[Clio the Leo]

27. I thought we deposed him?

Cheney that is ...... not Gibbs.

(Gibbs is of course a prince among princes and will reign forever! Sovereign of snark and champion of the baseball metaphor! whooohooo!!!) :bounce:

[GreenTea]

28. An ex vice president who arrogantly snubs protocol, tradition & courtesy by not shutting his lying

fucking mouth and allow the incoming administration time to get things rolling, which takes many month's for any administration...The liar Cheney is one truly disgusting evil, hateful, greedy, republican pile of pig shit!

[moondust]

29. And how did Chip express his outrage at the "Go fukk yourself" incident?

On the floor of the United States Senate. Deeply concerned about decorum, is he?

[northernlights]

30. I'd like to leave Dickey alone

in solitary confinement. Dressed in orange pajamas. :mad:

[HughBeaumont]

32. Didn't this guy a few weeks ago take Gibbs to task about increasing taxes?

Can't find the thread on this, but I remember him saying something in response to the example of the economic expansion under Clinton's tax levels like:

"Just think how many jobs there would have been if the businesses DIDN'T have all of those taxes"

And then when Gibbs called him on his bullshit, Chippy said something like "It's a unique time" :wtf:

Er, Chip? We tried the whole "Lower taxes=more jawbs" thing. DIDN'T work. Just sayin.

The utter hubris and gall of these people is despicable.

[ErinBerin84]

34. Isn't he

the one who asked in a question the other day "Democrats are rearing their UGLY HEADS", and then tried to cover it up?