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27 Dec 2019, 3:05 pm
"Ted Kennedy 'a fat slob,' Steve Forbes 'a meanspirited creep,' Dan Rather 'a loony,' Rush Limbaugh 'a drug-addled gas bag.' Many listeners detected the toxins of Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Mort Sahl or Groucho Marx.... [read post]
13 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm
We did not think it possible, until it happened.And Trump makes Dick Cheney look like an amateur when it comes to damaging the rule of law. [read post]
7 Sep 2019, 4:49 am
Bush was heard over a live microphone talking with his running mate, Dick Cheney, calling a Times reporter he did not particularly like a “major-league asshole. [read post]
30 Jul 2019, 9:09 am
During the first Gulf War, he served as the Pentagon’s J2, or chief of intelligence, working closely with Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell. [read post]
18 Jul 2019, 8:55 am
"Particularly Dick Cheney, who I had hoped would come across on camera as someone who’d gleefully sent hundreds of thousands to their pointless death — and boy did he deliver. [read post]
12 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm
Bush barely won a second term in 2004, then-Vice President Dick Cheney referred to the election as the “accountability moment,” as if anything that he and his nominal boss might do from that point forward had been blessed by the voters.Variations on this theme can be found everywhere, most recently in the repeated assertions by Trump’s defenders that everything we know about Trump’s depredations and degradations—from his misogyny to his refusal to… [read post]
3 May 2019, 7:04 am
The release of the redacted Mueller report focused the spotlight squarely on former White House Counsel Don McGahn, whose testimony to the special counsel featured prominently in the report’s discussion of obstruction of justice. [read post]
4 Apr 2019, 12:22 pm
Bush administration in the wake of firings of US attorneys, and the onetime chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney was convicted of obstruction. [read post]
11 Mar 2019, 6:32 am
Consider, for example, those who have made the not-just-wrong-but-utterly-wacky claim that the lobby (a) somehow managed to persuade George Bush, Dick Cheney, 3/4 of the Senate, most of the House of Representatives, and so on, against their better judgement that going to war with Iraq was a good idea, and (b) that the lobby did so on behalf of Israel's interests. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:01 pm
After all, these are people who are truly conservative in almost all dimensions, not having abandoned the Republicans even while it was lurching further and further to the right over the years when Newt Gingrich and Dick Cheney defined the party’s march to previously unknown extremes.It is to the NeverTrumpers’ credit that they did finally walk away when they saw an openly autocratic demagogue take over their party. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 1:00 am
His most recent film is Vice, a biopic of Dick Cheney. [read post]
10 Feb 2019, 2:41 pm
Dick Cheney attended Yale for a time too, even if he didn’t actually graduate. [read post]
10 Feb 2019, 6:50 am
Inspired by Bale's portrayal of Vice President Dick Cheney in the... [read post]
7 Jan 2019, 4:35 am
.'One moment did get political, however, as Christian Bale had one of the most memorable speeches of the night while accepting Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy for his role portraying former US Vice President Dick Cheney in Vice. [read post]
12 Dec 2018, 5:20 am
In the end, of course, these questions were moot as to what became Operation Desert Storm: And [Dick] Cheney said, You’re giving him political advice, not legal advice. [read post]
2 Dec 2018, 9:26 am
At the Department of Defense, a then less-hawkish Dick Cheney served as secretary (presiding over an overall decrease in the U.S. defense budget), with General Colin Powell (who had served as Ronald Reagan’s national security advisor) as chairman of the Joint Chiefs. [read post]
19 Nov 2018, 8:47 am
"Said Adam McKay, quoted in "The Dick Cheney Dossier: Inside Adam McKay’s Searing Exposé of D.C.'s 'Ultimate Gamesman' in 'Vice'" (Hollywood Reporter). [read post]
4 Nov 2018, 3:39 pm
Since the show aired, Moore said he had not realized he was going to be appearing on a TV show that was planning to mock and humiliate him and other religious conservatives, including Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney. [read post]
17 Sep 2018, 12:23 pm
The federal government, in a brief signed by U.S. solicitor general Noel Francisco, went to the Supreme Court today, arguing that a 2004 decision by the court in a case involving then-Vice President Dick Cheney “squarely forecloses the burdensome and intrusive discovery obligations” that the district-court order would impose. [read post]
19 Aug 2018, 9:01 pm
Because the public seizes upon what it can see, terrorism trials and high-profile interrogations—on the rare occasions when they occur—will probably continue to play a symbolic role, but all the real work in the war on terror, as Dick Cheney predicted in 2001, will take place in the shadows, invisible to the public.In time, no one will consider it unusual that cameras perch above us everywhere we go, monitoring each of us in real-time. [read post]
