nytimes editorial wants Cheney to explain his actions to the nation:

[rodeodance]

sorry, but i do not subscribe.
He sounds of KO here (who once said Bush owes an apology to the American people)

TimesSelect Mr. Cheney, Tear Down This Wall
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Now that the Scooter Libby trial is raising doubts about your own integrity, you owe the nation an explanation.

[radfringe]

1. SARCASM AHEAD

HOGWASH - HE'S THE VICE-PRESIDENT AND ACCOUNTABLE TO NO ONE besides he's backed up by the Decider

[Eurobabe]

2. and isn't Kristof a bush apologist and PNAC'er?

or do I mix him up with Kristol?

[EFerrari]

6. He's not a Bush apologist but his name sounds like one.

:)

[sam sarrha]

3. maybe saying something like that got the lawyer shot in the face.? he disappeared for a while i

think he went into rehab...the man is clearly insane... he is making $$$$$$ off the war, and killing our troops in a fabricated needles war.. this really sounds like his baby

[maddezmom]

4. here's a snip

At the Republican National Convention in 2000 that nominated him for vice president, Dick Cheney told a rapturous crowd that Democrats “will offer more lectures, and legalisms, and carefully worded denials. We offer another way, a better way, and a stiff dose of truth.”

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Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Nicholas D. Kristof.

So, Mr. Cheney, now that the Scooter Libby trial is raising doubts about your own integrity, you owe the nation an explanation. Here are a few questions to help frame your explanation of your activities:

Mr. Vice President, did you push Mr. Libby to dig into Joe Wilson’s background and discredit him? Mr. Libby made such a major effort to gather materials from the C.I.A. and State Department about Mr. Wilson — both before and after you told him on June 12, 2003, that his wife worked at the C.I.A. — that it seems likely that you commanded the effort. True?



~snip~

So when are you going to come clean?

When Richard Nixon was accused of misusing campaign contributions in 1952, he gave his famous Checkers speech. When questions rose about Spiro Agnew’s conduct in 1973, he repeatedly addressed them in public. (Look, you know you’re in trouble when the press tries to hold you to the same standards of transparency and integrity as Nixon and Agnew.)

I’m not accusing you of committing a crime. But there are serious questions here, and you owe the nation not legalisms, but that “stiff dose of truth.” If you continue to stonewall, then you don’t belong in office and you should resign.


link:http://select.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/opinion/06kristof.html?hp

[Tin Man]

11. tastey snip - thanks

At the Republican National Convention in 2000 that nominated him for vice president, Dick Cheney told a rapturous crowd that Democrats “will offer more lectures, and legalisms, and carefully worded denials. We offer another way, a better way, and a stiff dose of truth.”

Major burn! Suck it, Cheney.

[aquart]

5. That's a column. NOT an editorial.

The editorials are still free.

[Nay]

7. Cheney: "I'm doing it because I fuckin' feel like it. Whaddaya gonna

do about it, asshole?"

In other words, "fuck you." That's how Cheney explains himself.

[Solly Mack]

8. I don't want an explanation - I want him in prison

I don't need to hear anything from Cheney on the subject. I don't give a fuck what his excuses will be...just the facts without the self-exculpatory (lies) excuses and then prison for the remainder of his life

[ClintonTyree]

9. Snarl answers to no one....

his disdain for the American people and the Constitution is without equal. If a Democrat were to do half the bullshit he's doing there would be lynch mobs in the streets. Again, I blame the media. They ignore most of evil that Cheney commits, it simply goes unreported or if it is reported it's quickly forgotten and dismissed. Again, if a Democrat were to do these things there would be 24/7, non-stop coverage UNTIL public outcry reached a significant level. Then they'd report THAT.

It all goes back to the Reich-Wing control of the media. GE, Rupert Murdoch, Clear Channel.....they control what we see and hear and they have a vested interest in not reporting Cheney's myriad crimes.

[tanyev]

10. I wouldn't say the trial is raising doubts about Cheney's integrity.

Confirming doubts would be much more accurate.