What happened on CNN a few minutes ago? Cheney was

[rzemanfl]

saying something stupid about his "last throes" remark and CNN "lost the rest of the clip." WTF? He (Cheney) said he was refering to "1995????"

[rodeodance]

1. Cheney was a spinning away-backtracking. cnn showed it in full earlier.

[rzemanfl]

3. What did 1995 have to do with it? Do you recall? n/t

[elehhhhna]

14. He meant 2005, he was lying & said he said "last throes" as a specific

answer to a very specific example blah blha barf up more bullshit blah blah in "1995" because he was TRYING to say "Oh you fucked that quote up anyway nad that was sooooooooo last year..." BUT HE"S DEMENTed AND DOESN'T HAVE ENUFF BLOOD IN HIS NOGGIN TO REMEMBER WHAT FRIGGIN CENTURY, let alone decade, much less year it is.

[Beaverhausen]

2. the full quote is here somewhere

I saw it earlier. I'll go look for it

[rzemanfl]

5. Thanks. Just got home from work and booted up. n/t

[Minnesota Libra]

4. CNN claimed they lost video feed or something like that but what........

....I found interesting is they haven't tried to go back to the video yet. Cheney:tinfoilhat:

[Fridays Child]

6. Think Progress has the full clip here.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/06/19/cheney-defends-last-throes-2

[rzemanfl]

9. Thank you. What he said is absurd of course, but I wondered

what was "lost."

[Fridays Child]

15. Here's what struck me...

There's the "1995" error and I also noticed:

-The cough
-The way he was listing to the side of the podium
-The sharp gulps of air he took in at every pause

Regarding the cough, it happened only once in that clip but it sounded like the kind of cough produced by someone who is short of breath. I do not believe that the administration is being forthright about the state of Cheney's health. Of course, when are they ever forthright about anything?

[Beaverhausen]

7. transcript

REPORTER: About a year ago, you said that the insurgency in Iraq was in its final throes. Do you still believe this?

CHENEY: I do. What I was referring to was the series of events that took place in 1995 . I think the key turning point when we get back 10 years from now, say, and look back on this period of time and with respect to the campaign in Iraq, will be that series of events when the Iraqis increasingly took over responsibility for their own affairs. And there I point to the election in January of ‘05 when we set up the interim government, the drafting of the constitution in the summer of ’05, the national referendum in the fall of ‘05 when the Iraqis overwhelmingly approved that constitution, and then the vote last December when some 12 million Iraqis in defiance of the car bombers and the terrorists went to the polls and voted in overwhelming numbers to set up a new government under that constitution. And that process of course has been completed recently with the appointment by Prime Minister Maliki of ministers to fill those jobs. I think that will have been from a historical turning point, the period that we’ll be able to look at and say, that’s when we turned the corner, that’s when we began to get a handle on the long-term future of Iraq.

[rzemanfl]

11. So "last throes" doesn't mean what I thought it did, apparently.

Cheney got kicked out of more colleges than I did, so maybe he knows more.

[rocktivity]

12. I feel like that guy on the Stephanie Miller show

who says, "Whuuutttt?"

:crazy:
headbang

[sandrakae]

8. This might help. Video of him talking stupid on crooks.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Cheney-insurgenct-6-19-06.wmv

[izzie]

10. Gee but I ----------------

love to watch Cheney try to get our of his endless lies. Even when it is on tape they will say they did not really say something,.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Back in 1995...

Cheney was talking about how not getting Saddam was the right decision, because any invasion of Iraq would result in a quagmire.