Day: August 1, 2010
Cheney Hospitalized after Heart Surgery
Daughter Liz Cheney says her 69-year-old dad is out of intensive care and hopes to return home this week. She tells “Fox News Sunday” that he’s already planning trips for fly fishing and hunting later this year.
Dick Cheney has had five heart attacks since he was 37. In his recent surgery at a northern Virginia hospital, Cheney had a small pump installed to help his heart work.
After the operation, Cheney said in a statement that he was entering a new phase of treatment for what he called “increasing congestive heart failure.”
What’s really remarkable about this report is that it may represent the first time a Cheney made a public statement that wasn’t a lie. Note that I said, it “may” be the first time.
Breitbart Rules of War: If You’re on Defense, You’re Losing – The G.O.-Tea Party Is on Defense, And Dem Polling Is Up
There’s a spoof of a training video at Conor Friedersdorf’s blog at True/Slant titled, “How to Argue with Andrew Breitbart,” in which animated characters trade tips on debating Breitbart, the latest phenom of right-wing racism — the guy behind the smearing of Shirley Sherrod and the bogus but effective destruction of the anti-poverty group, ACORN.
The video is funny, if a bit long, and the instructions go into a lot of specifics. “If Breitbart says ‘x,’ then whatever you do, don’t say ‘y.'” That sort of thing.
But I would say it’s a lot simpler than that. Breitbart is just the latest expositor of Lee Atwater-Karl Rove attack politics, the central precept of which is very simple: If you are on offense, you are winning. If you are on defense, you are losing. To stay on offense, attack, attack, attack, even when — especially when — you are wrong.
