Dick Cheney: Free Speech at Five Hundred Dollars a Plate
By bluegal Friday Oct 23, 2009 11:00am
The thing that's been completely left out of the Dick Cheney "how dare anyone dither when it comes to blowing up our enemies and rewarding our torturers" speech is the context in which that speech was given.
The Villagers don't like to talk about specifics when it comes to the beltway dinner circuit at which so many of them feed.
This dinner, minimum $500.00 a plate, was to given by the self-described, and I am not making this up, "non-partisan organization" The Center for Security Policy. Dick Cheney was speaking at their 20th anniversary dinner, at which he received the, hold back your breakfast now, "Keeper of the Flame" award. Cheney was introduced by, among others, Don Rumsfeld, a former awardee himself. You know who else has this prize sitting on a shelf in their well-appointed Georgetown dens?
Joe Lieberman
Duncan Hunter
James Inhofe
Paul Wolfowitz
Newt Gingrich
Ronald Reagan
Jon Kyl
Caspar Weinberger
Okay, then. So why would anyone not expect a bowl full of neocon crazy in his acceptance speech? He's among friends.
Why can't the press be honest? And how, at this point in history, has that become a completely rhetorical question?
crossposted from Blue Gal
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Robert Gibbs addressed this very well at yesterdays White House press conference. Cheney and his lackys have been using their mythical mathematical skills to make a jumbled number salad out of troop numbers. Gibbs brings up some great points:
http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2009/10/22/HP/A/...
The Cheney Gang parties in their hideout.
"Keeping the Middle East in Flames" award. ...
I always wish the International Tribunal would have a sting operation, invite all these creatures to a lavish dinner, round up em up and ship em off to The Hague.
From your lips to God's ear.
Toby Keith sings, "I'm a Motherless Child".
Pre- Dinner, $1000 glass of Afghan Toilet Water.
Arabian Sawgrass smothered in Saudi Oil with Red Sea albino Shrimp.
Main -
Iraqi Baby Hearts braised with depleted Uranium
Asparagus in goats milk cream
Rice-a-Roni - The San Francisco Turkish Bath Treat
Desert - Yellow Cake topped with sugar coated Viagra
Then - TOGA PARTY!!! With hip-hop Gov. Huckabee DJ
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Because it's not honestly "the press." At least, not if you mean in the sense of an impartial media committed to truth.
The modern press is the propaganda arm of the huge defense corporations that own them. The "news" is more than ever a pure propaganda tool, trading on its dwindling legacy to lend credibility to what are little more than corporate communications memos.
We won't be able to work to fix this problem until we stop pretending to be surprised when the press acts like corporate propaganda shills. If the individual members of the press who produce these stories were acting out of accordance with their editors' wishes, they would get fired: instead they get raises. So these stories must be what these papers want written, and they want these stories written to serve their corporate owners, not us.
All you need to do is to listen to some of the ridiculous questions that are asked at any press conference. It's almost as if some of these questions are asked intentionally to flame a non-existing fire, which, said reporter person, wishes to flame.
Is it five o'clock yet????
Nope, but it won't be that long now. Hang on for a couple more hours.
..it won't be long till 5 o'clock and then they'll arrest him?
Make my day, somebody arrest that son of a bitch!
That's it? Pretty cheap eats for a fundraiser. Must not be in teh big leagues yet....
He has bush beat. They are selling tickets to hear bush speak for $19.00. I'm not sure if you get fries with that or not.
..for a roll of toilet paper.
It was $4.95 each or $19 for the entire office ..
Real Cheap !!
walmart.com
Talk about a Halloween scene. If you looked around at the attendees there and listened to what the speakers said, it scared the hell out of you because it was a reminder that they still walk the earth.
They gave out lesser Flamer awards and one was given to David Addington. Any group that rewards Cheney and his henchman can't be safe for animals and children...countries too.
They can say they are non-partisan, but one look into that cave told you they sure are liars and some sort of freakish human forms.
Like night of the living dead!
just when you think you truly understand how depraved they are - they surprise you with all new depths that they willingly sink to.
Of course they congratulate each other on getting away with their crimes. Of course they are shameless.
like Arbustos' buddies: "The Haves and the Have No Morals" ...
to answer a rhetorical question about rhetorical questions?
I'm afraid to ask what Cheney had that night for dinner. Were any kittens, puppies or small children delivered to the kitchen earlier in the day? Maybe he went out hunting and gathering and got himself a lawyer that morning.
Rubber chickens
The stuff of politicians fund raising dinners
And clown acts.
This scene looked more like a haunted house. The price of admission is much less than $500.00 to have the bejesus scared out of you around here this time of year.
Obviously this is a "prison prize". Who hands this out? The Mafia? This ain't nothin' but a group of criminals. Arrest them all, they have awards too. This is somekind of "treason" award, right?
Harold Capone!
"non-partisan organization" , that's actually pretty funny ! Reality , truth , facts ... completely irrelevant in their world . It's a comfort to know that their glory days are over and that these madmen are just about powerless now .
Lets send these clowns in instead. They LOVE ACTION So Much!!
Plus, they could use a good hike in those mountains to get some of that fat off.
"Why can't the press be honest?"
They were pretty honest earlier today when they proclaimed that the White House didn't get to decide which reporters or which corporate entities it wanted to speak with. The corporate servants showed just how much "competition" there is in the free market and lined up with FOX against the White House.
Kinda like when the Bush White House pushed for war with Iraq. Remember how skeptical and tough the press were? Remember how they scrutinized Bush's aircraft-carrier PR stunt? Oh, wait a second...
That is some list of past winners. Most of them fit right in on the mean or stupid scale. Inhofe must have won the award the year they were looking for the stupidest living son of a bitch.
:)
was Joe Lieberman doing there?! Nevermind....
Sadie Hawkins Day?
Dick Cheney...before he dicks you.
I'll pass on that rubber chicken
The roid award.
Who cares how it's arranged on the plate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbWIEkhd-WA
Dick's listeners may paid $100 more, but were shoes involved?
Shoes fly as George W. Bush speaks in Montreal
You have to have a soul before you can sell it.
He may have meant sole rather than soul. With all those shoes flying around he probably got confused.
You may have nailed it, pop.
Best part of the article:
See, he knows he is a joke. ;o}
He may know he's a joke, but does he know he caused nightmares around the world?
he doesn't care.
None of them do......
The joke headline above says:
"Cheney Lauded at Neocon Circle Jerk Chicken Dinner"
I've had Jerk Chicken, but never Neocon Circle Jerk Chicken. I think I'll pass. In fact, I think I'll go for a walk and try to get the thought of it out of my mind.
Dinner."
Trojan Chicken?
Let me make a wild guess here and say next year the Flamer award will go to Sarah Palin.
Joe Lieberman
Duncan Hunter
James Inhofe
Paul Wolfowitz
Newt Gingrich
Ronald Reagan
Jon Kyl
Caspar Weinberger
I don't think you could find a more representative cross section of the US political spectrum than that list of names.
Bluegal, I think I love you
This back patting is so transparent. Cheney and his gang are stupid.
"Keeper of the Flame Award" . . .
Somehow that makes me think of the burning of the Reichstag. You know, when the Nazis set fire to the German parliament, blamed it on the Socialists and used fear and intimidation to subdue what was left of the political opposition.
Everyone except those looking in the mirror can see how insane the republaneoconservatives are and are starting to see how much damage they have and are causing. I just don't know how they ever convinced anyone they were anything other then stark raving mad. I think everyone now is seeing that republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness. Washed up from the sea of insanity to plague a country and people near you.
Bush Jokes as Protesters Burn His Effigy in Montreal
ooops! I didn't notice someone already posted this here.
How about keeping him?
Please?
Not while Harper is in office...
that what he's really doing is lobbying for Halliburton and KBR?
All he's really doing is trying to use fear to justify more income for himself and his peers - the other corrupt defense contractors.
The only thing Cheney is afraid of is losing contracts if we don't stay perpetually at war.
And really, his track record being what it is - Obama should hurry and send more troops to their deaths because Cheney taunts him and calls him names??????
Like that would work on Obama.
I think that, besides craving more blood soaked profit, Cheney just wants to muddy the waters to cover his tracks.
Like you say, Cheney is attempting to wag the dog. It's flack. He is behaving more like Dr. Strangelove by the day. He is in a gang of perverts and he wants to be their supreme leader!
More proof that these people have more money then brains.
total withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan. It worked in the 60's, and it will give those who dare not cross their corporate masters, but are ashamed of all this, cover.
N.C. Church to Book Burn Despite Ban
Nothing contributes to ignorance quite like a book burning. The gang of perverts choose ignorance.
they're only burning Bibles - and only the Bibles THEY determine to be perversions. Does that make it better??
and two dozen protestors are planning to attend, according to that news report.
Also, some of the books being burned are non-King-James versions of the Bible. (I guess the original Hebrew and Greek would have to go on the fire too.)
You know why. They are bought and paid for by corporate advertisers, who work with the media conglomerates to control the message.
Prosecute for bong water possession while letting Cheney who lied America into war, killed 5,000 Americans and countless Iraqi civilians, bankrupted the US treasury, and profited from all of it off scot free.
http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=28589
He's a flamer, all right...
The more I think about this thing the angrier I get. We have Dick Cheeeeeeeney telling Obama what to do? Cheeeeney dithered while Rome burned. This country, our country, The United States of American was brought to it's knees buy Cheeeeeeeney and his president. They forgot about Afghanistan for 6 years and now, just like with the economy, Obama and the Democrats are left holding the bag.
Cheney's gang of perverts were handing out brownie badges and getting drunk the other day. Rumsfeld was there too. The whole gang was there in their matching prison garb. They were even video taping it, the perverts.
They wore their cheap matching tuxedos as if they were knights wearing their armour. They gave Cheney a little shower and patted each other on the back. Instead of sharing kisses and tokens they should be branding the "Gang Of Perverts" emblem on each others hide, preferably on the forehead where everyone can see it.
Oh, and hiding behind those silly tuxedos is just pathetic.
Loose lips sink ships.
Loose slips sinks bachelors.
This Spineless, Gutless, COWARD and TRAITOR had his time in the Cave (remember Boo sent him into hiding)who cares what he says because we all know it is about selling out America for the Socialist Corporate profits.
I have published an Open Letter to Eric Holder, the US Attorney General, asking him to either properly investigate the 9/11 Attacks or charge me with libel for accusing Dick Cheney of murdering at least 175 innocent American citizens that fateful September morning. Please read the letter, and show your support by asking that the charges be filed against me if the government will not conduct an open investigation to find the true criminals responsible for murdering nearly 3,000 of our fellow countrymen.
www.BlandyLand.com
Thanks in advance for your help!
Daniel Edd Bland III
http://www.BlandyLand.com
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