Don't Forget the Mockery. Josh Marshall on how to treat Dick Cheney's speech today.

[jefferson_dem]

Don't Forget the Mockery
05.21.09 -- 7:44AM By Josh Marshall

Vice President Cheney's crew is putting out advances this morning on today's speech at AEI, offering 'praise' for Obama when he deserves an answer when he leads the country in the wrong direction. Clearly there's going to be a lot of mano a mano razzmatazz that the media tries to gin up around this. But for those who want to remain among the lucid, let's not forget who the former vice president is.

This is someone who not only organized and seemingly directed a policy of state-sponsored torture. He did it in large part to get people to admit to crankish conspiracy theories he got taken in by by a crew of think-tank jockeys in DC whose theories most even half way sensible people treated as punch lines of jokes. So it's Torquemada or 1984 but only after getting rescripted by Mel Brooks.

This is an extremely gullible man who has just come off being the driving ideological force in an administration that most people can already see produced more fiascos and titanic, self-inflicted goofs than possibly any in our entire history. By any standard the guy is a monumental failure -- and not one whose mistakes stem in some Lyndon Johnson fashion from tragic overreach, but just a fool who damaged his country through his own gullibility, paranoia and bad judgment. Whatever else you can say about the Cheney story it ain't Shakespearean.

So as we see the big reporters trying to put him on some sort of equal footing with President Obama today, let's remember that the great majority of Americans see Dick Cheney, accurately, as a clown. And mockery isn't just the most effective but also the most morally apt response to the man.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2009/05/dont_forget_the_mockery.php

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. Who the hell sees Cheney as a "clown"? Or "gullible"? The man was

the prime force, the architect of all the crap that went down the last few years and he did it not out of gullibility but out of self-service.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Anyone who thought invading Iraq was a good idea is a gullible clown

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Cheney thought invading Iraq was a good idea because it _was_ good for Cheney & Co.

No one fooled him into pushing for it and he's a much wealthier man today because of it.
Anyone outside that loop who thought it was a good idea, that it was being done for a good and necessary cause, yeah, they're gullible.

[eShirl]

3. "So it's Torquemada or 1984 but only after getting rescripted by Mel Brooks. "

You can't Torquemada anything...
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[gauguin57]

4. I have my voodoo doll out ... pins poised. The doll is called "Dick Cheney." Am I a bad person?

???

[depakid]

5. Cheney's a psychopath, not a clown

and he's still at it- making fools of the administration and congressional Democrats, neither of which it appears at the moment has much interest in holding he and others to account for their actions.

[Cha]

7. Rec'd~ It's the reporters who

need to be exposed as the clown loving dick cheney addicts.

There's Something Very Wrong with this picture when the guy who was in charge on 9/11 gets to embolden the enemy by going around trying to undermine our Democratically elected PResident as opposed to his corporatemediawhore induced coup.