Write Your Own Caption: Dick Cheney's Eyes Edition
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Apr 08, 2008 3:45pm
(click image for larger) This image was posted on the White House website (it is NOT Photoshopped) showing the Veep taking a break from whatever it is vice-presidents do (cherry picking intelligence against Iran, perhaps?) doing some fishing along the Snake River in Idaho. (I know there's a joke there too, but I'm not taking it) But the photo editors at PalmBeachPost.com kept looking at the reflection in Cheney's glasses and wondered if the picture was suitable for family viewing. (h/t miss kitty)
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dick!
that says it all.
What's not suitable about that picture?
"I hope nobody catches me leering at these naked females. Can you imagine if that got in the papers?"
I don't get it. What's the reflection? I can't make it out.
Is it his reptile claw?
I'm just taken by the fact that he can actually smile.
It's a fishing pole. Why are you guys getting excited about his knuckles?
It's his hand in the reflection holding a fishing pole. Nothing to worry about. I seriously doubt that Cheney has the ability to get titillated at titties anymore. Men raise the war flag when they can't raise anything else up.
Ahh, get your minds out of da gutta, it's his hand holding a fishing pole.
katie @ 7:
I still think it looks like a lizard claw.
The reflection is of his hand holding a fishing rod.
Where is the joke and why would it not be suitable for family viewing?
I don't get it :-/
"Catching Rainbows has it's merits but gutting them is pure pleasure"
as long as it's a fishing pole and not a shot gun we'll all be safer. hard to kill ur buddy with a fish hook. though he could still poke out an eye or a testicle.
Fishing pole is right, and I completely agree that images of animal abuse are very offensive.
Space Coyote @ 9:
Anything is possible...
"I wish it was a gun, I shoot that sum' bitch with the camera."
That's not a smile, it's an evil sneering deaths-head rictus.
I didn't see the nekkid lady, but I did see a fishing rod - I guess when Dick isn't out murdering captive doves he takes in a few hours of fish killing, perhaps from a barrel?
Of course we'll probably never know what exactly he was doing, since I'm sure it falls under Executive privilege or something.
katie @ 7:
OUCH!
Damn, I wish it were unsuitable for viewing. I've had my fill of this nutjob.
A hand holding a fishing rod. WOW.
April Fool's Day was last week, Nicole.
With all the legitimate, substantial things that could be written about Cheney, you went with this. Think about that the next time it occurs to you that you aren't being taken as seriously as you'd like.
Some poor missing dead child's decomposed body washed ashore along the river.
Don't shoot!
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
Happenstance @ 19:
My thoughts exactly.
you're kidding, right?
Cheney fishes there so we know where the river got it's name. (Nicole wouldn't take the joke, so I did)
The comedy was lost on me, since I'm pretty sure Dickhead, given his love for guns and evil, has one of the more shriveled packages around.
Mhaaaaa!
Caption:
"Dick Cheney is seen here angling for the endangered rainbow sparkle puppyfish, so he can have it killed."
Old lawyers stay clear of the boat when Cheney cast his line!
Vice President Visits River Named in His Honor
Cheney shoots his friends so we don't have to.
One of the Shadows in the Shadow Government has escaped his bunker.
Egads, someone need to introduce this "man" to the invention called the toothbrush.
Now that it's here and the picture becomes much larger on this site, it is easy to see that it's a hand holding a {fishing} pole. But I coulda sworn it was nekkid wimmin...he was 'fly' fishing, after all...
"Ahhhh, there's nothing like inserting a long, stiff bamboo catheter to complete my day... Tomorrow it's colostomy fishing creel fun time!"
paddy boy @ 5:
i'm sure it's just gas. it only looks like he's smiling. unless he just shot someone in the face, in which case it is a genuine smile.
It looks like a shirtless guy leaning back against a fence with his head tilted back.
World's only living heart donor!
Frank @ 35:
Larry Craig?
Or it could be him just stroking his rod.
I thought this was a political site. Whats the picture of Emperor Palpatine from "Star Wars" doing here?
Cheney? Whew, I thought it was the dragonfly-man that stalked me the last time I did acid.
-Hunter S Thompson
Happenstance @ 19:
You know, and I was so worried about how you felt about my credibility. boo hoo
It's a Write Your Own Caption thread. Don't like it, move the hell on. John and I have been putting in killer hours trying to get videos up and work on the upgrade to the site. Sue me if we wanted some light filler. Or better yet, why don't you give me your work address and I'll let you know every time I don't think your work is up to snuff?
Eric Hussein Almighty @ 26:
Actually, not so much. There hasn't been a month that's gone by that I haven't had someone forward this picture to me, thinking it should be on the site. The way the photo enlarges on this site takes some of the humor away from it, but clearly the Palm Beach Post thought it looked like a woman.
The law? The law is a human institution
"There's nothing like scarfing down a coupla dozen live bunny babies to get my day started right."
-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
I don't get it?
Who ever is fishing with dickless, should be carefull, fish hooks in the face really hurt.
A primitive lightsaber?
The image was enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop®
OK - he's holding a fishing pole, and it looks to me like he's near the side of the boat.
I hate the man to the core of my being, but I don't know what the fuss is about about. Is this a sort of Rorschach Test? Some see a woman on a bed....some see some homoerotic image....
As far as the smile is concerned, I'm sure torturing fish with a metal hook and watching as they gasp for breath before death makes him feel all warm and fuzzy. He just pretends they're "Democrat" Senators.
My fav pix from the the WhiteHouse website are from GW & Laura's visit to Auschwitz.
That's where his GrandDad Prescott Bush's investment made the $$$ Prescott used to start his political career after World War Two.
Of course the pix aren't up on the website anymore.
Laura & GW Enter Auschwitz: "Arbeit Macht Frei"
Laura Places A Rose On The Crematory Gurney Thanking Those Who Died For Making The Bush Family Wealthy
If you were married to Lynn Cheney, you would probably like to get away and hold your own rod too. Okay, maybe more than hold it, but whatever he was doing with his rod, it made him smile.
Caption: Cheney actually smiles. Don't ask why.
miss_kitty Hussein @ 32:
You are right, if you look at the picture on the Palm Beach Post's site it totally looks like a naked woman.
As dumb as the Republicans are, they are still 100 times smarter then the smartest Democrat.
I ran it thru the face recognition software from a friend in the bureau, who owed me a favor. I put it to top priority, and I should be surprise but given the known hobbies of the mystery person to be shared with Cheney. I now question how Jim Henson died, was he on to something that Bert was doing and the connection? Was it a death to look accidental?
When I saw the similarity it just sicken me to no end.
http://www.gentlechifitness.com/images/cheney-eyes.jpg
MountainMan23 @ 48:
I had never seen that "Halt" picture before. Oh that's priceless for so many reasons.
Is that spit dripping from his front teeth?
paranoia @ 52:
LOL big time!
Happenstance @ 19:
Use your right hand to pull that stick out of your arse. Lighten up.
It's Cheney playing with his pole... so what?
Am I the only one that thinks this picture looks disturbingly like the character Duke from Doonesbury? Almost as though he was going for that look on purpose...
Blue Taliban Osama Buddha @ 57:
Yeah, but it's the first time we ever discovered what can make him smile. Now we finally know and it's impolite to talk about it in mixed company.
oh, I am so horrible! I know it!
but it makes the most sense of how this administration been running!
I can't stand the guy but it just looks like he's holding a fishing pole. Am I crazy?
It's a nude man laying down waiting for Dick.
I should add that the Jim Henson connection is proof that we have a puppet govt!
and that picture is not for children to see!
i can see your soul
http://www.gentlechifitness.com/images/cheney-eyes.jpg
take another look at the closeup of the eyes!
blown up with photoshop!
What do you bet that they have a Navy Seal Team underwater hooking up trout to his line.
Nicole Belle @ 41:
Aw, Nicole, why'dja hafta go and spoil my dinner? I hate to go there, but THAT image brings THESE images to mind.
Eeewwww. Eeew. Ew. *barf*
Onlooker: Gee Mr cheney, what a long pole you have.
Cheney (with a smile on his face): Yeah, when your plan is to screw as many Americans as possible in eight years, you need a long sturdy pole like mine.
You guys all missed it....there's a terrorist "suspect" on the end of Cheney's hook, in agony as the veepster gleefully yanks on the line.
Why else would Darth Cheney be smiling?
Randell El @ 51:
Umm, you are obviously confused as to the meanings of "dumb" and "smart." You are also using "then" where you should be using "than." I rest my case.
-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
It's his hand, holding a fishing rod.
"...what a shot you be if you could shoot at me with those angry eyes..." HT to Kenny & Jim
That's not a fishing pole...it's a stick of dynamite. Fishing the Cheney way.
I see Jeff Gannon. The secret Energy Task Force Meetings. I see Norman Mineta's Testimony and the boy who walked in and asked Cheney if the Orders still Stand. I see the rendition and torture of people as Cheney visits "the dark side" if you will. I see maimed people and destroyed families. I see Halliburton Stock. and Oil Profits. I see TREASON. What else can You see??
It's Judge Doom! Where's he hiding the dip?!
Jaws is in his last throes, if you will.
dick keeps eating my comment
[I know. I found where he was stashing it and freed it for you-Sitemonitor]
Only a real "Dick" can make his hand look sexy. No sparing the rod here.
Randell El @ 51:
They are not 100 times smarter, just 100 times more unethical. Look at Cheneys grin. That is the smile of a man(sic) that truely doesn't give a f**k about anyone but himself...
paddy boy @ 5:
LOL!
Acronym Jim @ 72:
I was just going to ask how many sticks of dynamite did it take old Deadeye to catch his limit.
I seriously doubt that Cheney can smile so that's probably what was photoshopped.
Others have already noted that the reflection in dick's shades is nothing more than his machiavellian fist clasping the cork shaft of an undoubtedly expensive fishing rod. But, that said, there is plenty of photoshop fun to be had here. Perhaps someone could photoshop in a rebel soldier from Leia Organa's guard or something. Or maybe the last unicorn?
"You don't mess with the man with no eyes, Luke!"
strong>PAM WILLIFORD! That's who I see along with dollar signs. Google Pam Williford (Willeford?) and read all about Cheney's little "Swiss Miss". Yeparoo - the one who was trysting with him when he shot his buddy in the face.
Are you trying to make us look petty and stupid with this picture. There is nothing I don't get it. Isn't there an overabundance of things to write on Cheney that are real??? This should be removed.
Orangutan. @ 73:
That is what I see too. Yet it is not in this article or in the picture. Please remove this petty garbage it just serves to make us look bad.
you get there before I could!
Caption: Evil: When you are wrong about the most important things but still Veep
This is stupid. Pointless. As much as I detest Cheney, I think this is juvenile and a waste of time. He's holding a fishing pole. Clearly. Obviously. Anyone with eyes that work can see that.
You know, I still come to C&L first thing every day--it's one of my all-time favorite sites. But this kind of crap is beginning to make me wonder what's going on with you folks, especially Nicole Belle. I liked C&L originally because it presented progressive-but-honest criticism, clearly following an ideology but still playing fair. Sadly, more and more posts here are becoming the kind of shrill, childish crap like this one--and sadly, most of the posts like this are under the name of Nicole Belle.
Could y'all go back to being fair, honest, and reasonably mature? THAT is what made C&L such a great site, not this kind of idiotic non-issue post. Shame on C&L for posting this.
Nicole is the silly person @ C&L. lots of silly posts by her. It is a flyrod.
Cheney is a flyfisher.
The wingnut blogs will rightfully posts this C&L contribution as yet further proof of the unhinged moonbats hyperventilating yet again.
The blogospheric discourse is often little more than a sixth grade cafeteria food fight. ah the umbrage, when someone from the MSM points that out. Ya know, some serious,responsible journalist, like Oreilly.
I suggest providing the opposition with as little fodder as possible. Thank God for Wisconsin. Home of WPR (nation's best public radio) and Russ Feingold.
It aint all silly shit.
WHENEVER SOMEONE TAKE A PHOTO OF THE VICE PRESIDENT... AN ANGEL LOSES ITS WINGS , A KITTEN DIES, AND SOMEONE IS IN FOR A WATERBOARDING....
REALLY
ITS A FACT
Amen Paul, saw your post above mine. I come here First thing after work too.
is there a limit on how many times someone can be vice-president???
looks like Bush's belt buckle and right below it Patreaus's head
Wow the fucking assholes life look sweet. While the average American children does not have health insurance this fucking bastard is enjoying the good life without care about other people's children suffering illness. Well I guess he should enjoy his plastic artificial ticker, for a while because that's all he got left.
Wow, this is much ado about absolutely nothing. In the thumbnail, yeah it looked like some kind of nude or scantily clad figure but open up the picture and there's just no way anybody can confuse it for what it is. I really don't get it.
Hunter S. Thompson possessed by demons!
Paul B. @ 88:
I disagree with the criticism of Nicole. Nicole's posts are one of the main reasons I come here.
All images of Cheney Dick are unsuitable for family viewing.
"I am the Penguin! or Darth Vader! (which ever they prefer)
I am the most villainous villain on this planet.
Yay for me!"
like to go fishing with me little boy? i got candy!
Definitely not his wife he is looking at. She looks pretty young. Cheney was out hunting new game!
Randell El @ 51:
REALY a hundread times? guess our childrens really arent learning! forest gump bush!
i think the smile is the weirdest thing about this picture. that ass never shows emotion, must be watching torture.
Yep, hand holding a fishing pole. See http://www.wildvoice.com/emperorwal/Posts/Cheney-s-Eyes.
Marty @ 90:
WTF is a moonbat?
The great thing about C&L vs. Wingnutistan is that here there are actually funny people. Lighten up once in a while. You'll live longer. Please?
Doh!
http://www.wildvoice.com/emperorwal/Posts/Cheney-s-Eyes
The period messed up the link.
Paul B. @ 89:
Marty @ 90:
Thank you for your concern. I'm sure that the right wing blogs are foaming at the mouth over a "Write Your Own Caption" thread. Boy, how dare we? I mean, I've only written five thousand posts, most on incredibly serious subjects, but this one (out of the 39 other) Write Your Own Caption threads we've done in the last 18 months is dragging down the site.
Lighten up, Francis.
Or better yet, I'll repeat the offer I made at #41 above: Why don't you give me your work address and I'll make sure to come over and let you know in no uncertain (and in demeaning and rude) terms when I think your work is not up to MY standards.
it's his long-sleeved arm holding a rifle that's resting on the ground .
B4 zooming in I did think his thumb looks like a shirtless man , but , , ,
NO .
I think what is more instructive is his lack of dental hygiene! The man could use some of that fishing line to floss out those teeth.Yipes!
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fishing pole in right hand, reflection of edge of boat (dock?) at lower left and water everywhere else.
Much as I'd love to see something else, and I was looking for something else....all I see is fishing pole in right hand, reflection of edge of boat (dock?) at lower left and water everywhere else.
Nicole Belle @ 108:
Or why don't you geniuses start up and run your own blog, or help out an equally popular blog to the extent Nicole does on this one?
If you don't like it, why are you clicking on it commenting on it? When you comment and click 'Submit' you've made a commitment to some modicum of importance of a thread to you. Publicly.
Quit pretending you're too good for it. You gave yourselves away with the lengthy oh-so-carefully crafted bullshitty posts you've made. We all smell your stuff, kids.
Looks like some kind of alien bugarm holding a fishing pole to me... Yea, I gotta admit I was hoping it would reveal a nekkid woman too.. That seems like the only kind of scandal that can really get a politician in trouble.. Death, mayhem, helping to kill the planet... not a big deal.. but get caught with a nekkid person nearby and it's so long political career.. well, except if you're a republican... so... oh well, never mind... :-(
But, hey folks, on the other hand, it may have revealed shutgun Dick to be one of those bug aliens those starship troopers missed zapping.... Too bad for planet earth I guess... Anyone got any pesticide around? Maybe that's whats needed to get rid of this cretin instead of impeachment... Just a big ol can of raid.........JD
My caption....
"It's been a good war baby....yeah....heh heh heh...."
"Like that one? Turn your head so I can hit the other cheek!"
I'm sure it was a CANNED FISHING trip they let the fish out of a cage just before he gets there .
Kansaskowboy @ 66:
Bwahahaha! and ding!
A fishing rod with a hand around it? Fishing for sexual metaphors? C&L needs some balls.
My caption:
"d'you guys see that interview where the gal reporter went all concern troll for the troops dying in Eye-rack and I said 'so?' I thought she was gonna poop her pants! Bwahahaha! Put some more bait on there, will ya? heh heh heh."
I took this photo and printed it to a 4x6. That's a nekid lady.
"But the photo editors at PalmBeachPost.com kept looking at the reflection in Cheney’s glasses and wondered if the picture was suitable for family viewing"
Then they need new jobs - the statement and the implied question are freakin' ridiculous... you can clearly see it's his right hand holding the fishing rod. What's the big deal. Geez... only prepubescent male minds would see breast on a headless (and armless) torso... kind of like the old elementary/jr. high trick w/ the "Land o Lakes" Butter box that swapped the maidens knees w/ her covered breasts.
Geez... there's enough crap that warrants serious attention. This is not even close to any of that.
Thank the gods he fishing and not hunting is all I can say.
Nicole Belle @ 108:
I stand by my comments. C&L used to impress me as a blog that could reach non-liberals because it was fair and honest. It's still better than any other blog/site I go to, as I said. Maybe I'm wrong about Nicole Belle's posts being the ones that come across as childish and petty, but I stand by my comments. I didn't attack the person, and I thank Nicole and John and all the others for their hard work. I'd just like to see C&L remain mature and intelligent--and this Cheney post is neither.
A bare hand on a fishing pole is unsuitable for family viewing? I'd say what's behind the glasses is much more unsuitable!!
Caption: "Comeon 'merica, squeal like a pig."
I've got this picture here right in front of me 4x6. and I don't see a flyrod. That's a woman.
"Yeah yeah. Chicks are cool."
ok, I see it now, it is his hand with a flyrod.It took me long enough to see it. The guy is still evil though.
Behind those shades, his eyes are yellow just like Darths Maul/Sidious/Vader (before the cool headgear).
Nicole Belle @ 41:
So, it's your job to perpetuate a story that's clearly false? Or was the intention to disprove it?
I thought it looked like a hookah mouth piece. Toking up Cheney?
Although it is fun to speculate that Cheney is up to some unseemly behavior like fishing for a torture victim who is being waterboarded, he is almost smiling and doesn't have an evil sneer on his demonic face. When you zoom in on the picture it is quite obviously his arm and his knuckles gripping a fishing pole in a very amateurish fashion.
lucus @ 100:
I am Darth Penguin!
-AF
Andrew Sullivan Is A Fraud
Actually, not so much. There hasn't been a month that's gone by that I haven't had someone forward this picture to me, thinking it should be on the site. The way the photo enlarges on this site takes some of the humor away from it, but clearly the Palm Beach Post thought it looked like a woman.
first time I saw that picture........ the honestly scary thing about that picture is the little girl at his feet.
Look at that reflection a little better.....
Are u sure it is a chick??
It could be Bush's gay lover Jeff Gannon
oswald @ 130:
I think it looks like a woman, too. so hang me!
"Mr. Vice President, I think your line is caught on that decaying teenager's corpse we saw floating in the river"
Cheney: "So?"
Looks like Hannibal Lecter.
P.S.: I clicked on the enlarge berfore and it did not enlarge as much as it just did. I also went to the Post site (I live in Palm Beach County) as well. Now, it looks like a flyrod, but Istand by my prior comments.
And all of you who are hanging Nicole and C&L out to dry need to LIGHTEN UP!
Mr. Vice President, denial is not a river in Egypt.
"So,fuckit,I'll take that one too,just so I can go fishin in it!
I fixed the reflection to show what he was really smiling at.
image at my blog...
DaveTheAngryRhodeIslander @ 141:
LOL. that's a good one Dave.
Fucking grow up. Is this all you have left--imagining phalluses where only hands exist?
Jesus Christ.
oswald @ 130:
Oswald, get a grip. Look at the title of the post. It's a light-hearted filler post after a lot of heavy posts over the last week.
Jeebus, there's no story to perpetuate.
I saw this picture a while back. The resolution was poor: enlargement of it presented the viewer with a Rorschach image. Like Jethro, I always see vittles in them. My brother thought it was a naked nubile, I thought it was a naked something, but forgot about it until today. Thanks to C&L for the higher resolution pic. It was a naked forearm.
Nicole, you have contributed many fine posts here at C&L. Being a hick from Wisconsin who simply installs furnaces and air conditioners, I often miss the subtleties of ironic humor, as in "(it is NOT Photoshopped)".
silly ME. not you...
Nearly all the normal people I meet in the trades and on the street are politically indifferent. The political bloggers and their followers relish in exposing the naivete and mendacity of the other team. Wingnuts vs moonbats.
It really is a food fight. Hell, I love the digs at Hannity, Malkin, and co. Just as they love laughing at Randi Rhodes. and at times, C&L.
btw, I love miss kitties post @ 112. "carefully crafted bullshitty posts" made me smile. FOOD FIGHT!!!
I'm done. Silenced. Outta here.
hey thats not Dick Cheney!! Thats Brian Burke, former Western Australian Premier and "Evil Dick" clone (see WA Inc scandel for background info). Wondering where he had got to after the 2007 scandels.....
If it is Mr Cheney - All he needs is a Panama Hat to make it good out West!
I'm shakin it, boss!
Maybe it's just someone being tortured. Would explain the shit-eatin' grin wouldn't it?
: )
Give me a break.
The caption reads as follows:
"...So? ...So, when I need to take a break from sending your kids off to war to be traumatized, maimed, and killed, I like to go out on a boat and kill fish. Thanks for all of the money".
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