Wayne Besen - Author, Activist, Columnist, Public Speaker

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Let's be clear.

The furor over Tricky Dick Cheney waiting nearly 24 hours to disclose the fact he nearly whacked his hunting buddy has little to do with the actual incident. This is just the straw that broke the camel's back and forced the lazy ass media to get out of their obsequious slumber.

Since Dick Cheney took office, he has pathologically pulled the shades and kept out the sunlight. Whether he eats bagels or rye bread for breakfast is probably classified information. Is there anything this man doesn't try to conceal?

The first thing he did was try to hide his lesbian daughter Mary in the closet. Her ultra-butch hairdo, combined with the fact that she used to tour seedy gay bars promoting Coors Beer with Mr. Leather made this secret hard to keep. Nevertheless, they Cheney's often kept her and her partner off the stage during key political conventions.

But this wasn't the only lesbian cover-up. Lynne Cheney wrote a tawdry novel with ribald lesbian love scenes. Tricky Dick made sure they were off the shelves as quickly as possible.

Of course, there was Cheney's ultra-secret Energy Task Force, where he furtively invited pollution and chemical lobbyists into the White House to write environmental policy.

After 9-11, there were those months in the clandestine bunker where the VP plotted the invasion of Iraq and cooked up a phony pretense for war with the stealthy Iraq Working Group.

Which led to the disastrous Vietnam...uh, Iraq quagmire. Then came the secret prisons, the torture memos - and all sorts of interesting policies that shredded the Constitution behind the backs of Congress and the American people.

The latest scandal is that the White House won't turn over e-mails that shed light on its role in letting New Orleans become Atlantis. They can usually avoid scrutiny by claiming that turning over e-mails would help the terrorists. But there were no terrorists during the Katrina debacle - just terrible management by corrupt, inept and incompetent cronies. My guess has always been that the White House allowed New Orleans to sink, because it would turn Louisiana into a reliably Republican state. Once the pesky gays and African Americans were washed out of the city, the days of Democrats winning statewide elections were over. Are they afraid their e-mails would show such a calculating and Machiavellian strategy?

Finally, the public and media know in their hearts that Dick Cheney personally ordered his aide, Scooter Libby, to "out" covert agent Valerie Plame, to get back at her husband for exposing the Iraq war as a fraud. Cheney is guilty as sin, and everybody knows it.

Which brings us full circle to the hunting accident. The media is using this as a proxy to ask tough questions and exact revenge for all the other cover-ups and lies told by Cheney over the years.

I would caution members of the media not to ask questions that are too tough - Tricky Dick, after all, might just ask you to go on a friendly little hunting trip.

3 Comments:

The VP is such a sick liar. America deserves better.

Samir, Detroit
posted by Anonymous, at 2/14/2006 3:37 PM

I bet Cheney's poor hunting buddy "knew too much".
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