Cheney At Auschwitz: What A Dick!

Elfdart · Post by **Elfdart** » 2005-01-30 01:39pm

So they're holding a special ceremony in Poland to remember the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army. Clearly a solemn scene. Or it was until Dickhead Cheney shows up dressed like a guy ready to clear snow off a sidewalk. Yeah, a parka with patches on it and hiking boots. That's proper attire. Why not "I Went To a Nazi Death Camp And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" while the useless motherfucker was at it?

Reality Based Nation has it just about right:
http://www.realitybasednation.com/

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I would say "Take off eh, Cheney you hoser!" but this wasn't just someone being a slob. So instead...

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2005-01-30 01:42pm

I don't see why he couldn't have worn something black and fashionable but warm at the same time.

Brian

Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba · Post by **Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba** » 2005-01-30 01:44pm

He's a vampiric nazi. Does this new assholery surprise anyone?

Oh. I guess so.

Elfdart · Post by **Elfdart** » 2005-01-30 01:45pm

A few chuckles from the ghost of Prescott Bush?

Axis Kast · Post by **Axis Kast** » 2005-01-30 01:52pm

So they're holding a special ceremony in Poland to remember the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army. Clearly a solemn scene. Or it was until Dickhead Cheney shows up dressed like a guy ready to clear snow off a sidewalk. Yeah, a parka with patches on it and hiking boots. That's proper attire. Why not "I Went To a Nazi Death Camp And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" while the useless motherfucker was at it?

This seems like a knee-jerk overreaction. What's next, criticizing his choice of automobile? Or the color he paints his home?

Seriously. The guy didn't show up in bright colors or anything.

Reality Based Nation has it just about right:

*snickers* The same site railing baselessly about how the voter turnout numbers in Iraq are biased, and then insisting that they don't matter, because Bush must be lying anyway?

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2005-01-30 01:57pm

Axis Kast wrote:
So they're holding a special ceremony in Poland to remember the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army. Clearly a solemn scene. Or it was until Dickhead Cheney shows up dressed like a guy ready to clear snow off a sidewalk. Yeah, a parka with patches on it and hiking boots. That's proper attire. Why not "I Went To a Nazi Death Camp And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" while the useless motherfucker was at it?
This seems like a knee-jerk overreaction. What's next, criticizing his choice of automobile? Or the color he paints his home?

Seriously. The guy didn't show up in bright colors or anything.

Compared to the other people around him, it made him stand out like the pope on a pogo stick.

The outfit is entirely unfit for the occasion. Who ever would go to a funeral with that, or to commemorate mass-murederd people?

And someone seemed to have told him how insensitive he was, because the next day he wore something more fit to the whole purpose.

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2005-01-30 01:58pm

Wow, that must be the outfit Cheney wears when he's out clubbing baby seals, running over hippies with tanks, and generally subverting the democratic process. We got him now!

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2005-01-30 03:14pm

Seems rampantly inappropriate... but what kind of idiot doesn't first find out what everyone else is wearing? That's like common sense, if there's any doubt of how one should dress (on all important occasions.) Appearance can be everything in these kinds of situations.

Of course, I think my intrinsic girl-ness came out in that statement

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-01-30 03:23pm

I got over the Bush Administration's insensitivity to foreign relations a long time ago.

But hey, that page you linked has a great Coulter reaming.

Julhelm · Post by **Julhelm** » 2005-01-30 03:27pm

That's the kind of insignificant thing people bitch at when they can't find something important to point at.

Ubiquitous · Post by **Ubiquitous** » 2005-01-30 03:42pm

That outfit in no way offends me. This is not newsworthy.

Petrosjko · Post by **Petrosjko** » 2005-01-30 03:52pm

I swear, Elfdart, I'm just waiting for the day you post a thread about how Cheney and Rove 69 in a whirlpool full of the blood of innocent virgins.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-01-30 03:55pm

Actually, the homepage of that site is pretty funny. It leaves its old articles up, so you can see them changing tunes.

"These elections are going to suck."->"These elections are still going to suck, despite preliminary reports."->"These elections suck. Let me make some vague accusations of media fraud."->"The elections didn't matter and never did."

Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba · Post by **Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba** » 2005-01-30 04:00pm

Master of Ossus wrote:Actually, the homepage of that site is pretty funny. It leaves its old articles up, so you can see them changing tunes.

"These elections are going to suck."->"These elections are still going to suck, despite preliminary reports."->"These elections suck. Let me make some vague accusations of media fraud."->"The elections didn't matter and never did."

While I laugh at its knee-jerk reactions, pathetic back-pedalling, and frothing at the mouth, Cheney's attire in this situation is entirely inappropriate. The man should have some respect for clothing appropriate for the occasion.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-01-30 04:04pm

Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba wrote:While I laugh at its knee-jerk reactions, pathetic back-pedalling, and frothing at the mouth, Cheney's attire in this situation is entirely inappropriate. The man should have some respect for clothing appropriate for the occasion.

True. I'm not really sure what he was thinking (or his staff was thinking) with that. At least he did better on day two, but it really was pretty disrespectful.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2005-01-30 04:06pm

Master of Ossus wrote:Actually, the homepage of that site is pretty funny. It leaves its old articles up, so you can see them changing tunes.

"These elections are going to suck."->"These elections are still going to suck, despite preliminary reports."->"These elections suck. Let me make some vague accusations of media fraud."->"The elections didn't matter and never did."

That's a hardcore lefty site. What's disturbing is that mainstream rightists (including the Bush Administration) are just as bad when it comes to constantly changing stories and justifications.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-01-30 05:04pm

Elections and Bush: does it matter?
By Bob Cesca

Does it matter that voter turnout in central Iraq was light at best? Does it matter that voter turnout in the north and south was strong? Does is matter that an Iraqi election official is claiming 72% voter turnout even though that number is extremely exaggerated? Does it matter that dozens of people were killed at polling places?

None of it matters. Even if there had been 0% voter turnout, the Bush administration would still use the simple notion of an "election" to claim a grand political victory, which they'll exploit at every opportunity. As you see pictures of Bush and his baby-toothed grin today remember that he's fabricating his own reality. What they claim and what is real are two separate things.

Millions of voters or no voters at all, things will continue in Iraq much as they have so far -- if not much worse. And the Bush administration will continue to function without a strategy.

Proof of democracy in Iraq can't be determined simply declaring "Elections!" any more than someone becoming a millionaire by walking into a bank and declaring "I have a million dollars!"

I found this one worth a chuckle. What's in bold I would like to ask the author "Based on what," and as for the red, that's just unsubstantiated whining.

Mayabird · Post by **Mayabird** » 2005-01-30 05:10pm

Slightly off topic, but Elfdart, have you been waiting for Cheney to do something at least semi-assholish so you could put up the title "Cheney ______ : What a Dick"?

Steven Snyder · Post by **Steven Snyder** » 2005-01-30 05:56pm

Hey Elfdart, just out of curiousity...

What did you wear when you visited Auschwitz?

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2005-01-30 06:07pm

Wow, that must be the outfit Cheney wears when he's out clubbing baby seals, running over hippies with tanks, and generally subverting the democratic process. We got him now!

He indeed

But then what you prefer Chenney had done?
Would you prefer he gouge out his eyes beat himself with birches and wailing while carying the two thousand ton rock of American shame from Paris to Auschwitz?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-01-30 06:16pm

Rogue 9 wrote:
Elections and Bush: does it matter?
By Bob Cesca

Does it matter that voter turnout in central Iraq was light at best? Does it matter that voter turnout in the north and south was strong? Does is matter that an Iraqi election official is claiming 72% voter turnout even though that number is extremely exaggerated? Does it matter that dozens of people were killed at polling places?

None of it matters. Even if there had been 0% voter turnout, the Bush administration would still use the simple notion of an "election" to claim a grand political victory, which they'll exploit at every opportunity. As you see pictures of Bush and his baby-toothed grin today remember that he's fabricating his own reality. What they claim and what is real are two separate things.

Millions of voters or no voters at all, things will continue in Iraq much as they have so far -- if not much worse. And the Bush administration will continue to function without a strategy.

Proof of democracy in Iraq can't be determined simply declaring "Elections!" any more than someone becoming a millionaire by walking into a bank and declaring "I have a million dollars!"
I found this one worth a chuckle. What's in bold I would like to ask the author "Based on what," and as for the red, that's just unsubstantiated whining.

Hmmmm. Just found the comment form. *Asks the author about the above.*

Wicked Pilot · Post by **Wicked Pilot** » 2005-01-30 06:33pm

Mr Bean wrote:But then what you prefer Chenney had done?
Would you prefer he gouge out his eyes beat himself with birches and wailing while carying the two thousand ton rock of American shame from Paris to Auschwitz?

He should have hired the Queer Eye for the Straight Guy crew to help him avoid such an international fashion fopaux. His daughter could have given him the number.

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-01-30 06:39pm

Kind of a surprising gaffe for a political veteran like Cheney ... must be his favorite warm coat. Or the hooker spilled something on him at breakfast and that was his backup outfit while he had the black coat cleaned and pressed.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2005-01-30 07:09pm

Mayabird wrote:Slightly off topic, but Elfdart, have you been waiting for Cheney to do something at least semi-assholish so you could put up the title "Cheney ______ : What a Dick"?

personally i think he should have held out for a good sex scandal, that would have made for the perfect double entendre. Something to the effect of:

Cheney knocks up 21 year old secretary: what a dick!

Post by **Gandalf** » 2005-01-30 08:08pm

This is just stupid of him, shouldn't he have a staff or some advisors who'd mention that that might not be the most appropriate outfit?