Thursday, February 16, 2006
Will Cheney face any charges?
If the guy who Dick Cheney shot (Harry "Dick" Whittington) dies from his heart attack, I guess it won't really be that funny...
Until then, I think it's funny as hell - one of the craziest things Cheney has done since going on the duck hunt with the Chief Justice (Scalia), one of the people reviewing his case in the Supreme Court !
Summed up perfectly by the New York Times (via the BBC):
"The transformation of Mr Cheney's misfire from comic turn to political metaphor is most in evidence in the New York Times.
"The newspaper dissects the White House's apparent reluctance to reveal the full story, offers a detailed graphic on the workings of a shotgun, and lets star columnist Maureen Dowd loose on Mr Cheney.
"With American soldiers dying in Iraq, Five-Deferment Dick - 'I Had Other Priorities in the 60s Than Military Service' - Cheney gets his macho kicks gunning down little birds and the occasional old man while 'W' rides his bike, blissfully oblivious to any collateral damage," Ms Dowd writes. "
Another from (David) Letterman was preview on Aus TV last night:
"We may not have got Bin Laden, but we've nailed a 78-year old lawyer!"
Excellent!
Will Cheney face any charges?
Posted by Living with Matilda at 12:54 PM
If the guy who Dick Cheney shot (Harry "Dick" Whittington) dies from his heart attack, I guess it won't really be that funny...Until then, I think it's funny as hell - one of the craziest things Cheney has done since going on the duck hunt with the Chief Justice (Scalia), one of the people reviewing his case in the Supreme Court !
Summed up perfectly by the New York Times (via the BBC):
"The transformation of Mr Cheney's misfire from comic turn to political metaphor is most in evidence in the New York Times.
"The newspaper dissects the White House's apparent reluctance to reveal the full story, offers a detailed graphic on the workings of a shotgun, and lets star columnist Maureen Dowd loose on Mr Cheney.
"With American soldiers dying in Iraq, Five-Deferment Dick - 'I Had Other Priorities in the 60s Than Military Service' - Cheney gets his macho kicks gunning down little birds and the occasional old man while 'W' rides his bike, blissfully oblivious to any collateral damage," Ms Dowd writes. "
Another from (David) Letterman was preview on Aus TV last night:
"We may not have got Bin Laden, but we've nailed a 78-year old lawyer!"
Excellent!
Posted by Living with Matilda at 12:54 PM
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