Special Comment By Teh Keith

[filkertom]

Cheney, just GO.

ETA: Different video source and transcript.

Comments

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

You know, it does make me wonder when a TV humorist has better research and stats at his fingertips than the VP did. Strange...

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Cheney, see my icon.

[scifantasy.livejournal.com]

Richard B. Cheney, will you please go now!

[jrtom.livejournal.com]

I know the reference you're making, but I still like to call him Dick "Tater" Cheney...and not just because he looks like a somewhat sickly potato (and not just 'cause I love a good pun, either).

Fortunately, I can now prefix that with 'Retired'.

[dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com]

Stand not upon the order of your going

[peachtales.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Yet more hot air from Cheney, and unfortunately people will still listen to a liar.
Data should be based on actual data, not hot air.

[voiceofkiki.livejournal.com]

What I love most about Teh Keith is his unabashedly geeky pop culture references.

I nearly squeed myself to death when he referenced Manchurian Candidate. And the good one too.

Why are all the good men taken? *sigh*

[banjoplayinnerd.livejournal.com]

What I want to know, and what I haven't found a good answer for yet, is why anyone is still listening to Cheney.

[caraig.livejournal.com]

Why does anyone listen to Rush, or BillO, or Ann Coulter?

The nearest I can imagine is my brush with neoconservativism back in College. They get you angry. They get under your skin and they get you angry at what you think might be wrong with the nation. They take a point and they poke poke poke it until it becomes a huge mountain of anger and despair and fear and righteous rage.

Then like a lancet they pierce it, and all that violence erupts.

That, I think, is what they are doing. They are hoping to take the 40% of this nation who, hell or high water, voted their party line, and incite them into a second Civil War.

The ones you hear the most about are the ones who are clever enough or practiced enough to keep their diatribes just this side of sedition. (Some, in fact, preach more than just sedition; they seek to incite to riot, violence, even murder.) The sad and yet glorious truth of it is that for the most part this is protected speech. They are allowed to spew it, just as we are allowed to stand up and say 'We are not afraid anymore.' But the fact of the matter is that it is sedition, it is incitement to violence, but there isn't a court in the land who would prosecute them for it.

We achieved an incredible thing this past year. We said 'no' to fear, 'no' to hate,* 'no' to oppression. The ones who would keep us all in fear, who want us afraid because they themselves are afraid, are not done yet, and so we can't cease to be vigilant against them. Ultimately, we can and will succeed against them.

But there is that 40% that makes me just nervous enough that they are succeeding in their own way.


* - Well, mostly 'no' to hate. Prop 8 and the other gay discrimination referendums are the exception.

[filkertom.livejournal.com]

"We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, [Rush, BillO, Coulter, etc., etc., etc.] is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who's to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections."

-- Michael Douglas as President Andrew Shepherd, The American President

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

Cheney said at least 61 of the inmates who were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration - "that's about 11 or 12 percent" - have "gone back into the business of being terrorists."

I'm confused on one thing. How do we know that they went back? How do we know that they didn't decide, "When I get out of here, I'm going to get my revenge on the United States for locking me up, waterboarding me, and demanding that I tell them about terrorist plots when I'm not a terrorist. They think I'm a terrorist? Fine. I'll be a terrorist."

[giza.livejournal.com]

LA LA LA LA LA!

Rubbish and nonsense, that's all that comes out of that foaming wound Dick Cheney has, where the rest of us have a FACE!

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Did anyone else see that image of Dick Cheney being wheeled to the inauguration, all in black - bespectacled, pinch-faced and mean-ass-looking - and think, "I know where I've seen that before!"

"Well, well, Mr. Potter, you're just a sneaking, scurvy little spider, that's what you are!"