Chip Reid defends Cheney after Gibbs compares him to Limbaugh: 'Is that the sanctioned tone towards the former Vice President?'
By John Amato Tuesday Mar 17, 2009 10:00amChip Reid is taking the mantle of the head zombie press pool reporter for CBS. Fresh off his vitriolic, "Democrats also raising their ugly heads, but ahh, on the hill," comment, he now is Dick Cheney's new defender on the Hill.
Robert Gibbs was responding to a question posed by CNN's Ed Henry about Cheney's attacks on Obama, Robert compared Dick to Rush Limbaugh.
Gibbs: Well, I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy," Gibbs said, prompting of the reporters to laugh out loud. "So they trotted out their next-most popular member of the Republican cabal.
That's when Chipper Reid saw an opening for his hackery about Cheney.
Reid: Can I ask you, when you referred to the former Vice President, that was a really hard-hitting, kind of sarcastic response you had. This is a former Vice President of the United States. Is that the attitude -- is that the sanctioned tone toward the former Vice President of the United States from this White House now?
Gibbs: Sometimes I ask forgiveness rather than for permission, Chip. But no, I hope my sarcasm didn't mask the seriousness of the answer with which I addressed Ed -- that for seven-plus years, the very perpetrators that the Vice President says he's concerned about weren't brought to justice.
Yes Chip, that's the sanctioned tone from just about every American about Dick Cheney. He just came out on CNN with John King, who is quickly moving into FOX News territory and said the Obama administration is making America less safe and with regards to our economy he said: "stuff happens."
Get it? He's one of the most reprehensible politicians of our times. He's among those most responsible for the Iraq war and all the slime and torture that came out of the Bush administration. He used the fear card at every turn, hijacked every agency and issue he could get his hands on from Bush -- including his secret "energy cabal" meeting -- and now we're hearing about that assassination ring he ran out of the White House.
So how is Gibbs supposed to talk about this man? The press room is not the Senate.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_uCzkgeFxQ
Maybe Chip is angling for an anchor spot with Fox News. Will he agree to wear a short skirt? Does he have the legs for it? Any chance he'll get to provide GBeck with crying towels like the guy used to do at James Brown concerts?
That's my guess too. He's auditioning.
I don't think he'll look very good in a little black cocktail dress.
If Cheney had ANY class at all...he'd act like he's supposed to...and shut his miserable pie hole.
I remember the wingnuts blowing a fuse whenever a Dem ex-anything opens his mouth. yet another It is OK if you are a Republican hypocrisy on parade....
What about what Chip said the other day about Dems "rearing their ugly heads"? I think Gibbs should have said that that wasn't the proper way to address democrats IN office let alone out of office...
absent a great retort, he gave him some more rope & knew chipp'd be back w/similar offerings
(is chip is damaged?...) ;>
Chip Reid should stick to journalism rather than defending Dick Cheney. Perhaps if Mr Reid had been so conscientious about reporting we would have never entered into an illegal war. To defend Dick Cheney, especially when he is trying to undermine the new president, is outrageous.
There is no time now or in the future for journalists to insert their personal prejudices.
...LEARN about journalism first. I see nothing here indicating that Chip is anything other than a partisan scribe and water carrier.
This little whore is on my daily email list now.
Awesome!
I read his bio...hes a fucking lawyer.
A lawyer in bed with the republicans? I thought that "trial lawyers" were the scourge the republicans were trying to protect us from.... You mean they like lawyers now?
They just LOVE them some lawyers that will play dirty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOLBQxk72NY
with you people and your lawyer comments? Do you really think that every lawyer out there is trouble? If you do then I feel terribly sorry for you and your ignorance.
Your comment would be OK, without the "you people", but you lost me there. Now I think you're a troll.
Actually, far worse. :)
however, I find it crazy that someone reading Reid's bio sees that he is a lawyer and quickly concludes that it explains his defending Cheney.
Being a lawyer doesn't automatically make you a defender of the Dick.
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problem is that this fucker is "posing" as a journalist. Me, personally, I have no problem with lawyers, our nephew and his wife are both lawyers, two of the nicest young people you would hope to meet. My husband's a teacher, they get shit on quite a bit, too.
with insurance salesmen, used car salesmen, and carnival hawkers...only better dressed, and more educated. };)>
Seriously though...I have a few friends that are lawyers...and they're pretty damn good peoples.
Lawyers LIE for a living. They go to school for lying.
There is no right or wrong...there is only what will stand up
in court.
maybe Chip is trying to bring his ratings in line with Darth's.
It's early, but Reid has already exposed himself as a bloody handed whore for Dubya and Dick. I guess some people learned to really enjoy the taste of Cheney's ass.
Cheney had a heart attack...multiple times.
But, he of course the bad thing is...he survived.
reid = so spanked.
when I was a kid, in summer camp there was a kid named reid who would always kick you in the shins instead of the ball when playing soccer, forgot his first name.
maybe he thinks he needs to balance out chuck todd..
Now you can see the obvious Dick-Licking reporters that adored the previous administration.
LOL very good.
Stinging, but technically not bottom of the barrel crude. Got to remember that one.
...but it's out of bounds to compare Cheney with Rush Limbaugh?
If Cheney wants respect, he should start showing it. Or at least STFU while the current government is trying to deal with his messes.
I'd respect him (a teensy-weesny bit) if he offed himself (and left a note of apology to the entire solar system)-- not otherwise.
Limbaugh probably wasn't a good comparision because despite how disgusting and perverted he is he's not guilty of multiple war crime and crimes against the laws of the US. Well other then his drugs taht is. As far as any "sanctioned tone" it should be a very firm one that Cheney needs to be tried, convicted, and sentenced for his crimes.
"that was a really hard-hitting, kind of sarcastic response you had."
ah yes, really "hard-hitting" (unlike reid's journalism) but it was not at the same level as, say, the pain of organ failure.
so, it is allowed.
thanks chippy.
next.
How about this guy as a Washington talking head?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEPq0FvFm3g
..I deleted myself instead of the sitemonitor doing it.
What Dick Cheney does,says,thinks or anything else for that matter doesn't matter to me. I want him in jail where he belongs!
I wonder if Chipper has a problem with the sanctioned tone a Vice President sets when he tells a sitting US senator to go fuck himself?
Word.
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When a former President of the USA becomes an International wanted man for WAR CRIMES and the Vice President is wanted for an International assassin ring and America refuses to prosecute...
... Where, then, is America's moral authority.
Chip Reid is nothing but an apologist for these men.
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..was Bush arrested in Canada today? Or did they deny him entrance into the country? I mean, their laws and Bush's history, tells me Bush should either be in jail in Canada or on his way home to Texas.
If they aressted him and wouldn't bring charges themselves then by Canadian law they'd have to extradite him to a country that would try him! GWB being "extraordinarily renditioned"!! Please if I'm dreaming don't wake me!!!
He better hope he doesn't travel someplace vigilante justice is allowed for war crimes.
personally, i like this guy's style. dick Cheney is dirty and we all know it. he pushed BUSH out their in front of the world with the "yellow cake" fearmongering chant.
He's prepared. Knowing that he's likely going to have to "take it" from the press corps, he's ready to dish it out, as well. It's just that he has a very "Southern gentlemanly" way of doing it.
I don't think the press whores are quite ready for someone who thinks more nimbly than they do--they're a little lazy after having not flexed their mental muscles over the last eight years.
It's not really journalism if you're just a scribe, after all.
Gibb's appears totally prepared to counter GOP dickwashers like Reid's bullshit.
Don't you have to have heart first?
and that only goes double for those who would defend him.
But there apparently is nothing wrong with the former VP nailing the current administration after 60 days, which is UNHEARD of, in the mind of Chip Reid.
I don't think the American people have ever been given a good explanation as to why they press LOVED the Bush W admin so much and gave them so much latitude.
Even with the polls showing 70% of Americans despise Bush & Cheney, you can still count on the MSM to carry the water for them.
Both Cheney and Chip.
where the fuck was this flunky newsmodel during the cheney-assault on the constitution and int'l law?
oh... he was helping the cheney cabal lie. ahh....
as an american, as a taxpayer, as a son of the american revolution, i hereby request that the members of the "press" corp that use their position to stymie the flow of information and spread disinformation have their press passes pulled. it is (or should be) OUR press room. not the corporate media's.
Perrspectives has a real good post about this. he describes the difference with the way Al Gore handled his post Vice Presidency and having the election stolen from him and the way Cheney has handled his post Vice Presidency. It is very good indeed.
Gibbs is a gem. I like his style and if Reid and others don't, to hell with them. Cheney doesn't need someone like Reid riding shotgun for him. Remember, the last man Cheney shot was a lawyer. Is Reid kissing up so Cheney won't shoot him?
for a former vp to criticize the sitting prez less than 100 days into his first administration?
why does dick cheney hate america?
why isnt cheney on trial for treason?
why is he not standing at the hague on trial for war crimes?
Chipster is just another pile of traitorous humanoid in the Cheney cabal who's angling for a spot on faux news so he can get a better seat in the press room.
Gibbs was awesome. Chip and Chuckie, not at all.
Sure, Cheney secretly let the energy companies dictate our foreign ploicy, lied us into a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of innocents lives, displaced countless more, destroyed one country and bankrupted ours; as well as inspired more terrorism and authorized torture and illegal wiretapping, outed CIA operations that were trying to keep us safe from weapons of mass destruction and for eight years wiped his fat ass with The Constitution, but isn't this sarcasm a little harsh?
...of how 100lb Princess Leia was able to throttle a half-ton, evil bag of fatness in the person of Jabba the Hut. Apparently the corrupt old bastard was as soft as a marshmallow.
Neocons aren't much different:
they can kick you in the back all they want, but when you turn around and give a good whack in the mouth they start crying.
to pull that chain tight.
Gibb's is great when he smacks down Reslug, stupid Man-Whores.
Traditionally, previous presidents and vice-presidents have held their tongue about their successors.
Not Cheney. Oh, no, it's all Obama's fault. Obama, Obama, Obama.
So I'm sure there's room for both sarcasm and, hopefully, in the future, an indictment or two for Mr. Cheney.
Message to Chip Reid:
Go f* yourself.
Another imbecile Rethug who expects the American public to mollycoddle some from the Bush administration in order to spare Cheney's delicate feelings. That old softy Cheney!
*rolls eyes*
Shove it, Buffalo Chip!
Cheeeney, Limberger, Hannratty, Billo the clown, etc...who cares? If Reid is looking for a sanctioned tone then just look in any mirror that will reflect back the truth and yo'll see slime. That's the sanctioned tone that Reid is referring to. SLIME...Good new spot for it on Chimpy's pig farm.....
I.E. - Cheeeney and Reid = SLIME.
Gibb's it looks like don't take no prisoners!
his nemesis was Helen Thomas. A real journalist. A person of integrity.
Didn't President Obama put her back into the front row?
I think they show him too much respect. [Deleted. Don't advocate violence-Sitemonitor]
Television "reporters" don't ask questions anymore, they make speeches that end with "When did you stop beating your wife?"
Journalism is dead.
Bloggery doesn't come close to filling the void.
We are in deep shit.
where is Reid when Cons talk about Al Gore?
Gibbs should now better.Regardless of how easy( or justified) it would be to take a shot at Cheney's comment, he has to take the high road.
No, he does not. He summed up the situation perfectly. Most of us understand, he's telling it like it is-- plain and simple. Don't go all drama on us, Miss Thing.
I like Gibbs. I haven't been paying attention, as yet, but if this is what he's made of, I DIG!!!!
He is in a position to be listened to. This isn't some FUX personailty. He speaks for the WH. I love it. The truth!! The Republican cabal. Great stuff!
I like this Gibbs guy, you tell those conservative mother-fuckers. Enough of the Bush cabal, your time/their time has expired righty-whitey!
Chip obviously wants to go over to Fox and hitch his wagon to Glen Beck's star. Who can blame him? Glen has those revolutionary twelve rules, PLUS the 9 what-cha-call-its.
I seem to recall that Cheney himself had little respect for the floor of the Senate when he dropped the F bomb in Lehey's direction.
Of course Reid is colossal asshole - he is a lawyer *and* a lobbyist.
Boycott CBS and their advertisers.
I know that to be so true from personal experience -- immediate family member style...
Why is he defending the criminal Cheney instead of exposing him??? I think he would do better defending the American Public instead...
...go suck a Dick.
Hey "Chipper", why aren't you out there asking about the lack of traditional decorum Cheney was showing in the first place, by criticizing the new President so soon after the election?
It has been traditional, and you know, GRACEFUL, for the former Administration to wait as much if not more than 2 YEARS before spewing te kind of Vitriol you did on suck-up King's show.
But Cheney isn't known for politeness, grace, humility, honor, or well.... PATRIOTISM now is he? So I guess for Chipper, that makes it "not news" simply because we EXPECT Cheney to be a DICK.
What? Was it not Cheney that told Senater Patrick Leahy to GFY on the senate floor?
So?
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