Cheney's Making A "Major" Speech Today?

[ProfessorGAC]

OK, everyone from the Chicago Trib and WaPost, to all the networks and CSPAN keep using the term "Major".

Wouldn't the term apply better AFTER the speech? It's major because Cheney's advance people say so?

Well, let's give the MSM folks a little lesson in logic, shall we?

1) First, it's not a major speech just because the person giving it says so.

2) Secondly, if we already know what it's going to be about, wouldn't it automatically be less important?

3) If any conservative is giving a speech in front of AEI, it means he's preaching to the choir. Wouldn't it only be a major speech if the audience did not need to be pre-selected to achieve total agreement?

On that third point, it would seem that an open forum to all americans, despite their pre-existing point of view, would be a requirement for something to be "major". Presenting to the fawning members of AEI would logically lead to the assumption that the speech cannot stand the scrutiny of a mixed audience. Hence, it's not major.

Stupid, stupid, stupid people.
The Professor

[Skidmore]

1. CSPAN is carrying this speech in about an hour.

[bryant69]

2. Listen I don't know anybody who's more Major than Cheney

He's a major league pain in the ass. Big time.

He's a major league liar. Big Time.

He's a major league proponent of pointless wars. Big time.

He's a major league wingnut. Big Time.

So naturally if he makes a speech it's going to be a Major Speech. His personal major league status bleeds over onto the speech.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[ProfessorGAC]

8. Thanks bryant!

Good one. Gee, i guess i was wrong after all.
The Professor

[edhopper]

3. Gwak!

Gwak, gwak, gwak, gwak!!

[Captain Hilts]

4. The Tribune Co. is purging liberal columnists, so...

they probably do think Cheney will say something worth listening to.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Which Liberal Columnists?

I read it every day and have noticed no purge.
The Professor

[Armstead]

11. Robert Scheer among otehrs

[ProfessorGAC]

13. He Wasn't In The Chicago Trib Very Often

That's probably why i didn't know. They own a lot of newspapers.
The Professor

[Captain Hilts]

30. Jules Whitcover of the Balt. Sun got the same treatment from TribuneCo. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

31. Same Answer

He wasn't in the parent paper. That's the one i read, so that's why i didn't know.
The Professor

[Captain Hilts]

35. There's not really anything to 'answer', they're purging liberals. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

37. Try To Keep Up Mookie

I'm saying that i'm giving the same answer as the post to which you replied. These changes are NOT showing up in the parent paper. That's why i didn't know they were "purging" liberals. And, since i've now seen two names, from subsidiary papers, i'm not sure that it's a fair characterization.

The Professor

[Captain Hilts]

40. I read your response

we're talking past each other.

I read the ChiTrib, but I'm just saying that they're organization is under criticism for getting rid of some high profile columnists.

Just passing on the information.

[SupplyConcerns]

5. He's annoucing he's got a space laser aimed at every major capitol

He's holding the world ransom! What part of "the American way of life is non-negotiable" didn't they understand?

[babylonsister]

7. CNN just called it a 'counter-offensive' by Cheney, w/a

very friendly audience-American Enterprise Institute. Nothin' new there.:puke:

[MaineDem]

9. Did CNN call it a friendly audience?

That would be something.

[babylonsister]

17. Absolutely. Do you think Darth Cheney would appear in front

of anyone else?

[MaineDem]

26. _I_ understand it's a friendly audience

I didn't know if CNN referred to it as such.

[spanone]

19. They actually did call it a 'freindly' audience.

the fact that this criminal HAS a friendly audience is frightening.

[MaineDem]

27. You've got a point there (nt)

[ProfessorGAC]

10. Sort Of My Point

If he has to do it in front of AEI members, how "major" can it be?
The Professor

[Armstead]

12. "All Democrats Rape Puppies"

Short paraphrase

[librechik]

28. addendum: and poop on the flag n/t

[mattomjoe]

14. Things can't be going well for the BFEE if Darth Sidious has to keep

coming out into the sunlight.

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Shouldn't He Melt Or Something In The Sunlight?

Just wondering.
The Professor

[Debau2005]

15. Stephanie Miller just said she will carry it

At least it will be amusing on her show.

[peacetalksforall]

18. Ya gotta be joking? A speech to AEI is major? The only thing major

is that the perpetual war facilitator and riches driven non-human came out of his bunker.

AEI - American Enterprise Institute - thinktankers for PNAC. Home of those who figure out how to accomplish what PNAC wants done for their control of the world. Home of some of the most vile liars and minds on this planet.

[ProfessorGAC]

22. Based Upon Your Post, I'm Guessing We Agree!

Just guessing though! You should learn to say what you really mean, and quite mincing words! LOL!
The Professor

[peacetalksforall]

29. Yes, we agree on everything you said, including the three stupids.

Thanks for alerting us. I guess the country is lucky that it's not another of his secret talks.

[ComerPerro]

20. Moreover, given this administrations track record for using

"major" speeches as a way to get some free air time for a political message.

To "catapult the propaganda".

I don't know why the networks, considering their "liberal bias", keep falling for it.

[Fovea]

21. And now a message

from the Vice President in Charge of Torture.

How nice...

[soup]

23. Headline News keeps repeating

he will defend *'s decision to invade Iraq.

As I said in another thread, what can he possibly say that hasn't already been said 2,095 times?

[ProfessorGAC]

24. I Think You Forgot A Few Zeroes (eom)

The Professor

[soup]

41. I can, sadly, add one more.

name not released yet - hostile fire - 2,096
http://icasualties.org/oif/

heard all too often, yet the repetition never seems to lessen the impact.

[burythehatchet]

25. He can stumble on a different word

:shrug:

[goclark]

42. Only major if he says he is going home to stay with Lynn forever

That would be a happy day until GW selects Rudy or Condi or Jebbie or Brownie to take his place.

[Marr]

32. Blah blah, 9-11, blah blah freedom, blah blah liberation.

Yes, I'm sure it's very groundbreaking.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. You Forgot "Terror"

That'll be in there several times.
The Professor

[ovidsen]

33. He's warning of the Islamic Empire threat again

Just a paraphrase, but Cheney insists that if Iraq is abandoned, Muslem radicals will build an Islamic Empire stretching from Spain to Southeast Asia, which will threaten the West with death and destruction.

He's also raising the old Iraq and 9/11 link, and the "don't forsake Americans who will have died in vain" line...

And he's quoting the much discussed and much questioned letter from Zawahiri (one of bin Laden's MANY second in commands) to Zarqawi about pushing the US into a Vietnam malaise that will guarantee Islamic victories in Iraq and around the world. Wonder if Iran and Saudi Arabia are scared yet?

What a POS.

[bpilgrim]

36. Links 911 to Iraq and Iraq to our 'war' on terror - puke

we need to straighten out that MYTH.

peace

[ProfessorGAC]

38. That Figures

However, one would think that someone, ANYONE, in the repub strategy room would realize that this particular linkage has already outlived any usefulness. You'd think someone would figure out that they need a new set of lies and they should quit recycling those that are already spent.
The Professor

[AzDar]

39. Cheney coming out of his hidey-hole again? That explains that

sulphur/brimstone/singed hair smell I've been catching a whiff of every so often this morning.