Patrick Leahy, Thou Art Avenged

Has the FCC started policing cable yet? Dig CNN as a Magnolia State resident advises Vice President Cheney to Go Fuck Himself.

Transcript here.

Video here.

Story of Cheney's own f-bomb against Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) here.

Classified: The followup, wherein Cheney rips open his skyblue workshirt to flash a nipple hideously disfigured by surgical scar tissue.

Comments

[Frank]

I'd be willing to bet real money that that brave soul was sent to Guantanamo Bay, where he'll never be heard from again.

[Frank]

Bush and Cheney are officially dellusional. What sane person would make the assumption that a pissed off person in New Orleans right now is thinking about the 2004 election? Bush and Cheney simply cannot accept the fact that people disagree with them.

[Jeff P.]

he real question is did MSNBC run the colorful statement on the bottom crawl?
"...VP Cheney told to fuck himself..."

[linguist]

Cheney laughs it off, but there are many people dead that aren't laughing right now.

I really didn't get this editorial comment. Is this meant to imply that Cheney laughing is causing people to die?

[Kwix]

I think they were implying that had the joke been funnier, perhaps the dead would laugh at that.

[toddb]

Sounds like the dead demographic is slipping for the Republicans...

[linguist]

Oh, ok, cuz I was thinking that heck, this crazy rabbi had it wrong. It's not Bush's policy of supporting the Gaza pullout that caused a hurricane, it's just Cheney's laughter!

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Hurricane_Katrina/0,,2-10-1942_1766676,00.html

[Isaac Bartram]

Sounds like the dead demographic is slipping for the Republicans...

How can it slip? The dead have always been a reliable democrat constituency. 🙂

[toddb]

Isaac,
This may be true of the Grateful Dead and the dead of Cook Co. IL, but I think it is unfair to paint all of the dead under the stereotype of being Democrats...for instance, explain Bob Dole.

[Captain Awesome]

Isaac,
The dead all voted for Sideshow Bob, and he was on the Republican ticket.

[tarran]

The dead are apathetic voters, who rarely stand up for any principle.

They also don't pay taxes.

We really should revoke their voting privileges. I say, no representation without taxation!

[Douglas Fletcher]

They also don't pay taxes.

Never heard of the estate tax, huh?

[Morat]

Never heard of the estate tax, huh?

Name me one dead guy that paid it. I know a lot of heirs that did, but they were all most certainly alive.

[rob]

linkee to movee deadee.

[Phil]

I think the hilarious thing is that the heckler, in the process of telling him to go fuck himself, was polite enough to call him "Mr. Cheney." The only thing funnier would have been, "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Vice-President, sir!"

[mediageek]

Name me one dead guy that paid it. I know a lot of heirs that did, but they were all most certainly alive.

So it's ok to take the fruit of someone's labor so long as they're dead?

Perhaps Mayor Nagin is smarter than I suspected...

[Jim Walsh]

You just KNOW that World Nut Daily and the other conserva-clown sites will be all over this like a dog on a Dreamcicle. All the bungling and mishandling in this tragedy, and just look at the kind of stuff the sociocons choose to get worked up over.
Nice to know their priorities are in order...

[spuds]

Why weren't the cameras turned around to show the "scuffling" offstage? No cajones?

[Rhywun]

World Nut Daily

...where no story cataloging the evils of the "gays" is complete without a quote from a former homosexual to put things in perspective... Damn, that story reads like it's straight out of the Onion.

[The Radical Revolutionary Pleb]

This may be true of the Grateful Dead

Being a Greatful Dead fan myself, I would hope that those Greatful Dead fans who ever bothered to vote at least voted for some third party and not democrat or republican. (most I'm sure didn't have any interest)

[dead_elvis]

I think it is unfair to paint all of the dead under the stereotype of being Democrats...for instance, explain Bob Dole.

Hey, zombies apparently stick up for their own...

Oh, wait, that's the undead. Sorry.

[Robert S. Zombie]

God, you people are insensitive. The proper term is "Necro-American". And you bet we vote!

Now that that's cleared up, anybody have a cup of fresh brain? The hurricane caused my supply to be evac-- uh, wiped out.

[ambrose]

Insensitivity: Lack of regard for the sensitivity of others.

[JD]

Bob the Angry Flower in "Brainstorming at Zombie City Hall" seems appropriate, somehow. (Of course, I rarely think it isn't appropriate.)

[Hobson]

Frank: "I'd be willing to bet real money that that brave soul was sent to Guantanamo Bay, where he'll never be heard from again."

I'll take that bet. How does $1,000 sound?

[joe]

"So it's ok to take the fruit of someone's labor so long as they're dead?"

I don't think that's a very nice way to describe how heirs come into their money.

Which is the only reasonable interpretation of what you wrote, as the money heirs receive is in no way the fruit of their labor.

linguist, "I really didn't get this editorial comment. Is this meant to imply that Cheney laughing is causing people to die?" No, this is meant to imply that it is distasteful to chuckle at the unearned misfortune of others.

[crimethink]

joe,

The difference is that the dead chose to give their money to their heirs, while they were still alive. Funny how your opinion of "the only reasonable interpretation" of everything winds up with the govt getting more money...

[joe]

Hey, man, don't blame me if all your arguments rely on semantic trickery.

[Douglas Fletcher]

joe, you're a lost soul. Surely there must be an exorcist who can help you, what with all those priests you got up there in Boston.

[mk]

I'd be willing to bet real money that that brave soul was sent to Guantanamo Bay, where he'll never be heard from again.

Hell, at least that would be one evacuee successfully airlifted to a place with shelter, food and water.
Haven't you heard? It's practically a country club down there.

[Jon H]

crimethink writes: "The difference is that the dead chose to give their money to their heirs, while they were still alive."

Unless, of course, there was no will and the property just goes to the legal default inheritors.