Tag: Dick Cheney
Clinton: Cheney’s Remarks on Iraq ‘Unseemly’
If they hadn’t gone to war in Iraq, none of this would be happening. Mr. Cheney has been incredibly adroit for the last six years or so attacking the administration for not doing an adequate job of cleaning up the mess that he made. And I think it’s unseemly. And I give President Bush, by the way, a lot of credit for trying to stay out of this debate and letting other people work through it.
— Bill Clinton, in an interview with NBC News.
Why Did Fox Allow Spokesanchor Megyn Kelly to Attack Dick Cheney on Iraq?
Here’s one for the Kremlin watchers. Why did Fox News Pres. Roger Ailes decide to go after Dick Cheney’s record of deception and ineptitude about the invasion of Iraq? Sources say that daily talking points are largely determined by Ailes and delivered by his minions in morning meetings to Foxbots like Megyn Kelly. During an interview with Cheney yesterday, Kelly put Cheney on defense about his record of lies and failures about Iraq, which she described in unvarnished and shockingly reality-based terms.
Cheney and his daughter Liz — last seen dropping out of the U.S. Senate race in the Cheney fiefdom of Wyoming after polls showed she was 50 points behind the incumbent, ultra right-wing GOP Sen. Mike Enzi — have launched yet another anti-Obama organization. As part of the rollout, in an op-ed in the Wall St. Journal, which, like Fox, is owned by Rupert Murdoch, Dick Cheney criticized the President, saying, “Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.”
In response to that, on Fox yesterday, Kelly asked him:
Cheney Still Maintains Waterboarding is Not Torture
If he doesn’t think that was torture, I would invite him anywhere in the United States to sit in a waterboard and go through what those people went through, one of them 100-plus-odd times.
— Sen. Angus King (I-ME), in an interview on MSNBC, on Vice President Cheney defending the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the CIA under the Bush administration.
Poll: Liz Cheney Down by 52 Points in Wyoming Senate Race
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Percentage points by which Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz is trailing extreme right wing Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi in the latest polling on their primary race. Enzi’s 69% to 17% lead over Cheney now is a 12 point bump up from August when he led her by 40 points, 61% to 21%. The poll also found that Enzi had a 79% favorability rating while Cheney’s favorability was underwater, 29% to 37%.
Ted Cruz Offers the Definitive Explanation of How Dick Cheney Shot His Hunting Partner in the Face
Look, it happens.
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), quoted by NBC News, when asked about when Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot his friend in the face on a hunting trip.
This Is Nothing to Apologize For
If life ends when heart stops, then please explain Dick Cheney.
— Texas state Rep. Gene Wu (D), in a tweet he later deleted as a “mistake.”
Not a Dick?
With the NSA surveillance scandal loomin’,
Obama’s experiencing some personality confusion.
Despite the Patriot Act,
The prez says, in fact,
“I am not Dick Cheney — I’m a human!”
