Stan Goff: Let's ridicule the Dick. It's a form of resistance.

[JohnyCanuck]

Why Cheney's hunting accident matters

by Stan Goff

SNIP

This incident exposes Cheney himself as just another costumed buffoon, and not the Darth Vader figure he and his desperately insecure admirers seemed to relish.

SNIP

However pathological the macho death-cult of guns is in this country, the people who have taken the trouble to learn anything about firearms at all now know that Cheney is what my dad used to call a pig-hunter and a fool that traipsed around after his “one beer” lunch on the quail preserve with his finger on the trigger. He’s no more a hunter than Bush is a cowboy.

He’s just another stupid, pampered, autocratic narcissist like Bush—bullshitting his way through high office—and leaving bodies in his wake with as little concern for them as he does for 70 pheasants. In the age of postmodern politics, when the impression is sovereign, the gendered spell is broken for a moment when the costume slips.

That’s why I relish every jibe and joke, and I hope people milk this incident for all its worth. I oppose male power, and white power, and the reign of narcissists. With every grant of legitimacy, we grant power. Ridicule is a potent political weapon. It is a form of resistance.

http://www.gnn.tv/articles/2117/The_Shootist

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Show the emporer has no clothes

and everyone laughs as he slinks away in shame.

[MADem]

2. I completely agree with that premise!! Henceforth, Prick Chee-knee

shall be known as DUCK!!!!!!!!!!! Chee-knee!!!!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. Dick Cheney Pig Fucker.......errr..I mean Hunter. n/t

[Webster Green]

4. OK

[niyad]

8. what are the pics? all I see are two x's.

[Kurovski]

5. Our country is being run by a psychotic version of " The Village People"

Goff is correct. Scorn and humour are time-tested weapons against the bloated powers that be.

Those who believe that it's a time-waster or that it's childish to engage in such behavior, believe incorrectly.

And in today's America, one devastatingly accurate crack can hold more sway over voters than, say, a twenty minute discourse on foreign policy. If you can sum up why your foreign policy is better than your opponent's in a 70 second stand-up routine, you've got it made.

Bemoan it as one may, that's the world and welcome to it.

[susu369]

6. Excellent -

BTW, just how much did Cheney's expensive Perazzi 28-gauge shotgun cost? I've read as much as $12,000.00.

OBSCENE.

[cliss]

7. Here's another interesting factoid

after the accident, Cheney said it was "private trip", a "private party", meaning it was private so stay out of it.

But Cheney flew there on Air Force One, had staff members with him, had secret service people and a fleet of doctors, all on the taxpayers tab. Just imagine how much that cost.

And NO, it wasn't "private".

[susu369]

11. You are ahead of everyone else - saw this headline at Huffington Post

"Taxpayers pay for most of Cheney's Hunting"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/18/AR2006021801147_pf.html

By Peter Baker
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, February 19, 2006; A07

As they flew toward South Carolina for a campaign event in 2002, Lindsey O. Graham had a quiet moment to talk with Vice President Cheney aboard Air Force Two. As Graham recalls the encounter, he quizzed the vice president about the stresses of his high office.

"How do you keep your sanity in this job?" Graham asked.

Simple, Cheney answered. "Hunting."
==snip==

While Cheney pays any hunting fees or lodging expenses if charged, taxpayers invariably pick up much of the cost of Cheney's hunting hobby. As with his predecessors, the government pays for Secret Service agents, military aides and the rest of the entourage that travels with vice presidents wherever they go, as well as the expense of Air Force Two. But it is not clear how much that costs. The budget lists $1 million for the vice president's annual travel, including his official duties, but the figure is rounded to the nearest million, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

==snip==
Cheney naturally favors some of the country's most exclusive and remote hunting ranges, such as the Armstrong Ranch

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. Precisely. Make him ashamed to show his face in public.

Oh, that's right -- he already doesn't show his face in public. Alrighty, then, we'll just focus on the wee cowboy who chose DUCK! (WHO SHOT A 78-YEAR-OLD MAN! IN THE FACE!) to head up his original Vice-Presidential search committee -- and who then chose HIMSELF as the best Vice-Presidential candidate! Whatta buncha maroons.

[johnaries]

10. Hmmm, could the Armstrong Ranch be the "undisclosed

location"?