Cheney on Meet the Press this morning NoW

[rodeodance]

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[Hugin]

1. Thanks for the reminder...

The Exlax I took last night hasn't worked and this might do the trick.

Maybe, I should drink more water?

[City Lights]

68. Thanks for the first LOL of my day!

:toast:

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

103. How about a 2nd? NEITHER Limpy or Timmy have FLAG PINS ON TODAY!!!

When did they stop supporting the troupes? ;)

[rodeodance]

106. umm.. I did not notice.

[Wetzelbill]

2. I know that's why I am going to sleep through it

:)

[LosinIt]

3. Thanks, my Blood Pressure is especially low this morning.

Listening to this evil, treasonous, black-hearted bastard for five minutes should bring me up to a level where I can at least get some laundry done. Five minutes will be all I can handle without taking a hostage.

[Roland99]

4. Odds he'll tie 9/11 to Saddam and Saddam to Al Qaeda?

0:1 (meaning there's no chance he won't)

[rodeodance]

10. I really think Tim will get him on this.

[Roland99]

15. I can't hold my breath that long

[liberalnurse]

17. No way...Timmy is afraid to confront Cheney....

He will milk-toast the interview...Cheney is going to start the rhetoric now.....lead into the finale on Monday with the terror, terror we saved you all from terror fiction video on ABC.

[Kahuna]

145. He wasn't afraid today.

:wow:

[liberalnurse]

150. To my dismay and disbelief....Timmy actually asked

direct questions!!! I bet he had yellow shoe-strings after the show......I will give credit when earned and he did his job this time.....

[exlrrp]

5. Thanks for the warning ! I'll be sure to do something else

Think I don't have better things to do than listen to this sociopathic liar?

[remfan]

6. That's a sign they're frightened about something

They always bring Big Dick out when they need to make a "serious" point that the Lame Duck is unable to communicate.

My guess is - we're all going to DIE if Democrats take control of congress (said with the best sneer I can muster).

[SpiralHawk]

33. Dick "Five Deferments" Cheney has SO much authority on military matters

Because he only got FIVE military deferments, and did not sign up and then DESERT like George AWOL Bush, nor did he use an ASS PIMPLE as an excuse like Rush Limbaugh.

Therefore, all the republicons KNOW they can trust Five Deferments Cheney for "brilliant" and "courageous" military advice.

[leftchick]

7. why in the world would I watch that?

:shrug:

[republicansarewhores]

8. You mean "Press the Meat"

All it takes is an opportunity for this vampire to exploit to draw him out of his coffin (with 9/11 on Monday). Every word out of this bastard's mouth is a lie, so whatever he says, remember the truth is revealed in believing just the opposite.

Wouldn't it be a national tragedy if someone in the green room at "Press the Meat" used the microwave while he was in there? I heard they wreak havoc with pacemakers. Unless his is something out of a Bond movie, made out of some futuristic material not available to lesser mortals.

HEY CHENEY! OVER HERE!

[Toots]

107. Your post could very easily be construed as a threat to Cheney

You should be very careful, this site is monitored by FBI and God knows who else.

[republicansarewhores]

123. I didn't threaten him.

I simply stated it would be a national tragedy if he got near an active microwave with that Darth Vader pacemaker of his. I thought it was funny, comedy, you know,like the neocon whores do.

Ann Coulter made jokes about supreme court justices being poisoned. I'm sick of playing nice with these assholes who break the rules but say whatever the hell they want and then claim it's "comedy".

RAW

[Toots]

131. I would disagree

You show a picture of a man aiming a rifle straight forward with the wording over the picture saying: "Hey Cheney over here" I think that could easily be construed as a threat and if a child did that in a classroom they would be suspended from school and hauled downtown....just saying..

[lonestarnot]

136. Do you forget that Dick the prick carelessly aimed, fired and shot an

individual in the face and fucking got away with it and had the victim appologize to him?

[C_U_L8R]

9. ugh the thought gave me a sickening shiver

the mere thought of the "man" is revolting

[rodeodance]

11. Rec

[rodeodance]

12. started out with the increase in insurgants in Irag

[rodeodance]

13. says can't buy that Iraq is crreating more terrorists

[rodeodance]

14. cheney listed a whole bunch of good things in Afghan.

[rodeodance]

16. tim says we have not secured Afghan, Cheney says some work to do

yet.

[rodeodance]

18. C. says Terrorists want to break our will

[rodeodance]

19. C. says the tail to Bin Ladin iN NOT 'stone cold"

[rodeodance]

20. tim read the bush quote saying I do not spend much time thinking of oml

[rodeodance]

21. saying how Pak has been a good ally

[Roland99]

37. Yeah, all of our "good allies" offer sanctuary to Al Qaeda/Taliban

[SlavesandBulldozers]

70. hahaha. this is why I don't have TV anymore.

[susu369]

75. Don't tell me Vice used that offensive word "Pak" again!

(I refuse to watch teevee any more).

[snappyturtle]

120. C:Said we've killed more Al Qaeda in Pakistan than....

anywhere else?! I didn't know we had troops or special forces in Pakistan....do we?

[rodeodance]

22. Cheney says we did not take our eys off Afghan.

[rodeodance]

23. playing a clip of Bush: "Iraq is the Central for the war on Terror", then

read the polls.

[rodeodance]

24. now. C. is listing all the progress in Iraq.

[rodeodance]

25. tim playing tape of Cheney: SH has wmd. C. says Intell was wrong.

[rodeodance]

26. C. repeating Tenet saying it is slam dunk

[rodeodance]

28. i think Tim is doing a good job --of course Cheney is once again beating

around the bush.

[Roland99]

30. Tim should have had clips from Frontline's 'Dark Side'

[Roland99]

27. Intel was wrong because Cheney et al brought in the lying INC

at great taxpayer expense.


IMPEACH the fuckers!!

[SlavesandBulldozers]

71. how many schools have been built?

I'm really fucking curious.

The most expensive schools ever built in the history of humans.

[seemunkee]

142. They are getting built, blown up and rebuilt

some companies have lucrative contracts to keep rebuilding. Other companies are pulling out and Washington Group International is picking up their contracts.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. No we just did a "cut and run" on Afghanistan. I guess that's not

the same thing as taking our eyes off of Afghanistan, right DickHEAD? :banghead:

[rodeodance]

31. and C. continues to say--SH had the capability to develop wmd.

[rodeodance]

32. Tim bringing up Senate Report--NO link.

[rodeodance]

34. cheney again saying intell was credible-yet Senate report saying NO.

[rodeodance]

36. Cheney trying to wiggle out by saying saying about sequence of Cia

reports.

[rodeodance]

38. talking of Prague--

[rodeodance]

39. boy, Cheney is still digging himslf in. Fun to watch.

[rodeodance]

40. OH MY GAWD--cheney sasy he has NOT read the report. This I do NOT

believe.

[Roland99]

45. Why read what he knows is not true...er....

;)

[rodeodance]

48. but you can bet the bridge that h did know what was in it.

[Drum]

137. Isn't he the president of the Senate?

[Roland99]

35. Oh, so we invaded on a maybe possibility?

:banghead:

[bettyellen]

130. sadly, many true RWingers are okay with this. they just never admit it

because they know the rest us won't go along.

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

41. Timmy actually holding Dick's feet to fire?! WTF

Watching now and I'm quite surprised!

I just turned it on and we've got the Vice preznit** trying to sell his shit as if it was still hot...

Timmy, who has been a whore to be sure over the past years, is AT LEAST throwing out the statements that are not really softballs.

{B^> FMH

p.s. rodeodance great job posting this with updates btw!!

[rodeodance]

46. maybe Tim finally realizes that he dos not like being lied to??

[Catchawave]

42. Tim is really grilling him

Cheney is such a spinning liar :banghead:

[rodeodance]

43. parsing words again--said there was Historic relationship between al-

qiida and SH.

[rodeodance]

44. Cheney seems to be using Tenet as the big whipping boy

[SlavesandBulldozers]

74. right, who else has a historic relationship with AQ and SH?

takes one to know one I suppose.

[Jackpine Radical]

134. There's a historical relationship betw Saddam & Rumsfeld

ferchrissake.

[Catchawave]

47. Showing polls is making Cheney sweat

and tap dance around those people who "just don't understand"

[WinkyDink]

49. Thanks for the up-dates; I cannot stomach this creature.

Lying, evil sub-human coward.

What can one say about a deliberately-misleading leader?

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

53. Actually he's coming off like a real limp dick ... kinda refreshing

Actually he's coming off like a real limp dick ... kinda refreshing in a weird way.

Like watching a hawker with a slicer-dicer when you know that he knows the thing will fall apart after 10 carrots...

{B^> FMH

[Catchawave]

65. Tim's definitely not throwing "softballs" this morning....

Love watching the Dick squirm.

[rodeodance]

50. Tim reading the 'Last Thrroes" in Iraq comment.

[rodeodance]

51. now admits that the insurgency has goone on longer than expected.

[rodeodance]

52. Cheney has said several tiems --We are better off with SH out of power.

[rodeodance]

55. and says it AGAIN!---He would still invade Iraq cause SH was a bad

person (gave the long list again)

[Roland99]

58. Goebbels is smiling in his grave

[SlavesandBulldozers]

79. There it is folks.

We went to war because Cheney wanted to.

[Catchawave]

54. "Last throes of insurgency" comment

coming back to bite Dick in the butt. Thousands more dead and injured since that statement, but won't admit it was wrong !? Just "the world is better off" w/Saddam in jail...geesh.

[rodeodance]

56. cheney not admit any mistakes except to say they did not expect

insurgency to last so long.

[rodeodance]

57. Tim mentioned all the US troop deaths and 300B$$ gone and asked if

better spent. Cheney takes us back to the homeland security--diverts from money spent on iraq.

[rodeodance]

59. says part of what we did right was to take the war to the enemy.

[Roland99]

62. Wait! So Cheney does NOT want tospend $ on homeland security???

[rodeodance]

101. in Cheney logic-spendign $ in Raq IS spending $ on DHS!!

[Catchawave]

60. Hey, "we haven't been attacked in 5 years!"

So everything's okie-dokie ! heh.

[rodeodance]

64. and he said that comment after Tim asked about $$ spent in IRAQ!

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

61. "Could that $300Billion not been better spent?"

TIM -> "Could that $300Billion not been better spent?"

Limpy -> I think it has been spent well ... We've done a hellava job ...

TIM -> "Could that $300Billion not been better spent?" (again)

Limpy -> Tim... I don't know how you can explain five years of no attacks...

[Roland99]

63. Anthrax, Bali, Madrid, London

Nope...Al Qaeda is a-skeered!

[WinkyDink]

73. Then I guess the presidents from 12/08/41 to 1/20/01 were

absolute geniuses regarding security!
Who knew we were living in a Post-Pearl Harbor World?!

[SlavesandBulldozers]

86. Only with Cheney. . .

Only with Cheney is presiding over the worst terrorist attacks in American History JUST ONCE a real resume booster.

He's proud to not have any 2nd attacks happen on his steadfast watch though, by GOD!

[The Count]

81. Dick's Amerika - not under attack in 5 years - some slogan, eh?

As Sharpton said - "we should be grateful we haven't been murdered????"

[gully]

133. How did they explain 8 years when Clinton was in office?

eom

[rodeodance]

66. WHAT is Victory? ---What is STay the Course?

[rodeodance]

69. cheney says ---a 'viable' Iraq

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

67. I ask you again: "What is Victory in Iraq?"

Timmy -> I ask you again: "What is Victory in Iraq?"

Limpy -> Blah blah blah blah


nice....

[flpoljunkie]

72. No, mouth-breather, we are not safer by "taking the fight to the enemy."

Cheney always brings up the fact that we have not been attacked since 9/11. Hello? Al Qaeda has us where they want us--bogged down in Iraq with a civil war growing every day--our army and marines on the verge of being broken. Where is the need for Al Qaeda to attack us here in the United States when they have us where they want us?

What corrupt incompetents we have running this country!

[WinkyDink]

82. Here's my Democratic riposte:

"The enemy has lured us into his parlor. He is killing us THERE so that he doesn't have to kill us HERE."

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

76. Commerical break --- oh wish we could see the behind the scenes right now!

While Timmy was rolling he seemed to have Cheney on defensive, but i wonder wtf Cheney has to say now that the camera (at least public camera) has stopped...

Perhaps Timmy has grown a set?

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

78. Tim back for a 5 sec "we'll be right back" & Looked IRKED!

Maybe Limpy tried to lick his bawls and Timmy didn't like that sandpaper feeling?? ;)

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

80. [self del]

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

90. [wrong thread again!]

[Roland99]

77. Thanks, rodeodance, for putting up with the bastard! Gonna watch PeeWee

on HDNet movies.


;)

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

83. Round TWO -- Limpy's back with his scowl back in place n/t

[rodeodance]

84. Cheney will not speculate on military capabilites re. IraN.

[rodeodance]

85. talking of Plame issue now and the doc where Chey wrote notes.

[rodeodance]

87. Tim asked C. directly is he was involved in leaking confidental informatio

[rodeodance]

88. C. will not answer: Can you declassify Plames name.

[rodeodance]

89. said over and over he will not talk about it anymore as he may be a

witness.

[rodeodance]

91. C. chuckles at the question of Is he influence diminished in WH.

[rodeodance]

93. Cheney says he disagrees with SC regarding trials of persons at Gitmo.

[rodeodance]

94. Cheney says he will not discuss interrogation techniques.

[WinkyDink]

96. I disagree with the SC over Gore v. Bush!!!!!!!!!!!

[goclark]

121. Which one said that?

[glitch]

139. It was Bush v. Gore

Cheney can't even get that one right!

[DoYouEverWonder]

119. Cheney may be a witness?

Ah, how about Cheney may be a target?

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

92. Scooter Libby: "I've said all I can say on the subject"

Limpy Smirks -> "Tim, Scooter Libby is a good man"

"It's a matter pending before the courts"

BIG SMILES

"I've said all I can say on the subject"





... Reminds me of AG Gonzales

[City Lights]

95. Thanks, rodeodance, for watching this and giving us

the play-by-play. :applause:

I don't have the stomach to watch, but it's good to hear that Timmah stuck it to the big dick this morning. :-)

[rodeodance]

104. I only have dial up so I get behind.

[rodeodance]

97. te he. Cheney keeps saying they have good OVERSIGHT by congress.

[rodeodance]

98. says Pelosi will NOT be speaker of the House. This election is about

the WAR ON TERROR>

[Subdivisions]

102. Bush and Cheney keep emphatically saying that

Pelosi WILL NOT (those words) be the Speaker of the House post-November.

I guess they would know.

[Lasher]

124. Heh heh, they're in denial.

They're gonna get theirs starting in January.

[glitch]

140. She'll be President?

does he think they'll get impeached too? :rofl:

[SlavesandBulldozers]

110. yes. and what a remarkable job they have done in the War on a Tactic

[Roland99]

99. WTF?!?!?!

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

100. On the elections: He KNOWS they're going to lose! LOL

You can see it in his face.

He _knows_ they are fcked ... on the other hand if rove can pull the evote rabbit out of his ass, I'm sure Limpy won't be sad...

[Helga Scow Stern]

111. Yeah right, just like in 2004 when Lyn told him they were losing...

and GFY put on his IPod headphones and told her not to worry.

*GFY = Go Fuck Yourself*

[Flying Dream Blues]

149. Same reaction * had. They both knew the fix was in. nt

[rodeodance]

105. All things said--Tim let Cheney swinging in the wind (Cheney will not

change)---but I do think Cheney toned down his Bull today.

[Kahuna]

143. Right. Cheney will lie no matter what. But when Tim challenges

about 20 of his assertians that haven't panned out, it draws a conclusion for the viewer. Cheney is either a liar or he's clueless. Either way, he should not be the leader or co-leader of the free world.

[Usrename]

108. I wish he had asked how much money he's made off Iraq.

Last I heard he was getting more than ten grand per dead soldier.

[Subdivisions]

109. Okie-dokie. I've got my wooden stake and my silver bullet and

I'm ready to stare evil right in the face.

Our turn for MTP in Dallas ;)

.

[Lasher]

126. Getting ready here in WV

It comes on here at 11AM EDT.

[FULL_METAL_HAT]

112. BIG THANKS to Rodeodance!! Excellent 'live-blogging' job.

I haven't watched Meet the Presstitutes in months but thought I'd check it out today and was suprisingly not gagging when I saw Limpy.

I started a thread over in GDP http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2820431 but it was a joy to find your thread here with the excellent blow-by-blow ...

The transcript will be interesting to read.

THANKS Rodeodance ya dun a hellava job ;) !

{B^> FMH

[Toots]

113. I would bet a small fortune Cheney will never be asked why as the person

placed in charge of all terrorism matters in 2001 he never held a single meeting until after 9-11.. Why was that "Big Dick?" Why did you not host a single meeting with Intelligence on issues of terrorism? You had time to hold quite a few meetings (secret no less) on energy matters. You had time to parade around America giving speeches but not a single meeting about the most serious issue facing America. Why?

[Subdivisions]

114. So far, he's explaining away every single admin failure...spinning

like a top.

[INdemo]

115. I watched maybe 30 seconds of this BS

and that was too long...Cheney seems very confident the Repukes will remain in the Majority..So the fix must be in already......This SOB,draft dodging idiot

[orpupilofnature57]

116. The Evil Elf would let him Beg to Differ all day long ,why don't they just

neck.

[NoodleyAppendage]

117. Timmy? Why don't you just teabag him?

Russert bends over for his masters...

J

[MadJohnShaft]

118. This is what ____ said on this program on _____. Tim Russert has 1 move.

[BREMPRO]

122. Cheney's bubble burst- Russert challenges the lies and distortions

I was surprised how strong Russert went after Cheney.. good questions and follow up. Cheney stuck to his fantasy talking points about the "progress" in Iraq, al-qaeda/iraq war on terror, etc... but Russert showed he's clearly out of step with reality and the majority of American people. His argument that Iraq has lot to do with their "war on tare" he couldn't cut through Russert's tough questions about WMD's and the current situation, and ended up silent like a petulant and arrogant adolescent. What i wish Russert would have said: The truth is Mr Cheney, that we've in fact strengthened al-Qaeda by invading and occupying iraq - effectively bankrupting our country to the tune of 500,000,000,000 (2009 estimate cost of the war in iraq), reduced our civil liberties, reduced our influence in world affairs, created a new generation of terrorists that hate and want to kill us, killed thousands of our citizens (almost 3000 soldiers to date since we invaded iraq). Aren't we in fact losing your war on tare because of your poor judgment in invading iraq?

Cheney's warning that if we pull out of Iraq that we will empower the "Terrorists" that want to "build an islamic caliphate that want to get and proliferate WMD's" (FEAR MONGERING) and banking on us "losing our will for the fight" (DON"T BE COWARDS) is the same kind of worst case scenario rhetoric they used to get us to invade Iraq.

Could we have spend the billions on Iraq better? how about a solar panel or windmill to power plug in electric cars for every household in America ($3000-5000 x 110,000,000). Effect of policy? No more wars for oil, and an economic boom in America with jobs creating and manufacturing new energy technology. Al Gore's America would have been vastly different.

How much longer can we take this delusional administration that's killing America?

[Subdivisions]

125. "How much longer can we take this delusional

administration that's killing America?"

Certainly not two more years.

[jazzjunkysue]

127. I'm not impressed with Tim. Let Dick talk too long uninterrupted.

Tim didn't challenge him enough and demand follow ups. He allowed alot of jibberish, like, allowing Dick to own "Hussein had the capacity to create WMD." He should have asked why we occupied Riaq instead of a long list of other countries who have that capacity, like, say, most of the modern cultures on the planet.

He also never brought up oil.

Tim wanted to land his punches and didn't have plan b ready. He should have expected certain re-directs and been armed to take those down, too.

Never brought up no-bid contracts. No Halliburton.

Its another white-wash for the apologists.

Tim's one of them.

[lamp_shade]

129. Agreed

"I'll do your show, Tim, but I get to do all the talking".

[BREMPRO]

132. yes, he did miss a few opportunities, but

you can't argue that he didn't directly challenge Cheney on his fantasy version of reality... the questions were not softballs..

[Lasher]

147. Russet is learning

Darth Cheney is the most incredible liar in the history of the world. A common tactic of his goes something like this:

LUKE SKYWALKER: But Darth Cheney, it has been proved that you and the Emperor are building a Death Star.

DARTH CHENEY: Well you know, Luke, we are not building a Death Star and the 9/11 Commission Report does, in fact, bear me out on this.

OK in this scenario let's say that Darth either knows that the Report says exactly the opposite thing or he just pulled that out of his ass. It doesn't matter which. If our hero Luke is to be effective in nailing Darth down in this interview he needs to anticipate the lie and be ready to cite the section of the Report that exposes it.

Otherwise, Darth gets off the hook in the interview and there is little or no later accountability for the lie. Cheney has used this tactic often. Russet seemed to have made a deliberate effort to be ready for this, and that's a good step in the right direction.

If I ran a show like this one I would punish people for lying to me in interviews. Something like a 5 or 10 minute segment to comment on last week's show, where it would be easier to expose the lies after having had a week to check out the facts.

[senseandsensibility]

148. How about health care for all Americans?

Really, the mind boggles at the good that that wasted money could have bought. Of course, everything that benefits the American people is "evil" to this crowd. If they can't make money off it for thmeselves, they're not interested.

[Kahuna]

128. Five years too late. But he's finally kicking the slimey bastard

in the nuts! :woohoo:

[kentuck]

135. He just got called on every damn lie he told up to the war...

What a criminal!

[kstewart33]

138. Tim's doing a fine job.

He's asking tough questions and staying on Cheney.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

144. He was actually a god interviewer today.

remember, this is the VP we are talking about. You know. In the minds of some americans, Royalty. And one must be polite to Royalty.

Tim did a respectable job and followed up.
as for letting the lying scum POS asshole run on, all that did was reinforce the idea that he had something to hide.

[wiggs]

141. Did TR mention Downing Street Memos? Why have these disappeared? nt

[WinkyDink]

146. How about those 9/11 "war games", DICK? And didn't anyone

tell CONDI about "imagining" using planes as missiles??