Why is Dick Cheney on my TV screen this morning?

[mmonk]

I can't get used to our acceptance of war criminality in this country nor the abandonment of the rule of law and lack of discussion. I'm not sure I will ever fit in with my fellow Americans anymore. Any connection is impossible now with people who this does not bother. The separation is permanent. We have nothing in common.

[madokie]

1. Pretty much so

The dick cheney needs to be at the dock at the Hague

[Subdivisions]

2. Why? Because as long as he is able to keep everybody's attention focused on the

outrageous things his says about the Obama Administration, and even putting them on the defensive, no one is seriously looking back at his role in the attacks of 9/11. With Poppy and Jeb wheelin' and dealin' with the bin ladens; and cheney's strategy for Iraq having been laid out at the secret Energy Task Force; and Rummy hiding (stealing) $Billions of supplemental military budget funds and with henchman Wolfowitz planning the invasion of Iraq; and Osama bin laden doing his part to create havoc with his Al Qaeda; and Ashcroft keeping the law dogs at bay; and Tenet "slam-dunking" the intelligence and ordering renditions and torture; and...well...there are just too many chances that someone sooner or later might just happen to do some actual journalism. Hence, we get to see his ugly, snarling face spewing vitriol at our President, sending everyone in the direction of his choosing and away from things like 9/11 and torture.

[jtrockville]

3. The consequences of NOT prosecuting his cabal are unthinkable.

I'm one of your fellow Americans who agrees with you. Allowing those in power to operate outside the law is more dangerous than any eternal threat could ever be.

[mmonk]

5. I sometimes wonder why we cannot break through

to fellow citizens. It has to be because of the media. Did they all flunk civics class and history? It's as if many people have had lobotomies.

[indy legend]

8. Damn that

"liberally biased " media for giving this soulless ,POS war criminal a forum to spew his crap.

[jtrockville]

14. The media rarely challenges lies, even outright lies.

It's cheaper to be stenographers than journalists.

[farmout rightarm]

16. I think you meant 'external' but eternal works too...

;-)

[jtrockville]

24. Ah yes, I did mean external. Odd how the typo still works.

[lunatica]

4. My theory is that he's obfuscating

He was practically never seen or heard of when he as VP. His location was always undisclosed. Now he's in all our faces. That man doesn't do anything for anyone except himself. And he's privy to a hell of a lot of information since he has stooges in the CIA. Next he'll send his daughter out again. He's got something to lose. Maybe his liberty, his rights, his comfortable life-style or something else near and dear to his black heart.

[mmonk]

9. Who will call him on it?

The commercial media is not worthy to consider itself journalism in the least. It is void of the practice anymore.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

6. Summing up this interview

- Iwas right about everything and continue to be right and i don't care what the facts are.

[Captain Hilts]

7. It's disgusting. Was Al Gore given a forum on the Sunday shows 00-08? No. nt

[Ilsa]

10. What was he on? I'm glad I missed him. nt

[HopeHoops]

11. You made the mistake of turning the fucking device on in the first place!

Don't you know that Sunday is when all good far right wing Christians skip church to watch far right wing idiots on TV?

[mmonk]

17. My son turned it on. I quit watching "news" (because it is propaganda) in this country.

[Subdivisions]

19. I finally broke my teevee 'news' addiction in early December. It was

the right decision and not as hard as I thought it would be.

[mmonk]

20. It is better on the blood pressure to give it up.

Rage is a hard thing to live day in and day out.

[Subdivisions]

21. Yes. There's something terribly wrong when it's not so much the news

that induces outrage but the reporting of it.

[HopeHoops]

25. OOOhhhhh. Hmm. Crickets in his oatmeal? Cracker crumbs in his bed?

There HAS to be some appropriate response.

[peekaloo]

12. Democracy is in its death throes?

or maybe because it's Valentines Day and he's had, what, four hearts put in?

[spanone]

13. because the media still supports his policies.

[bigtree]

15. the rule of law

. . . that would govern or initiate the prosecution of these elected and former government officials for crimes committed in office is dependent on the discretion or attention of our elected officials. It's not indifference to suggest that, until we reform our political system adequately and elect responsible legislators to carry out these judicial responsibilities, we will never realize the defense of our democracy underlying the pursuit of justice. In that effort, I would suggest that our continued, insistent participation in our democracy is the ONLY hope we have of dissuading or eliminating criminals like Cheney from broadcasting ass-covering screeds.

Even then, though, I admit I still loath hearing or knowing Oliver North still is able to present himself as a responsible arbiter of anything. I understand your frustration.

[sharesunited]

18. Because it's Valentine's Day.

[mmonk]

22. A reminder some hearts are made of tin.

[KeepItReal]

23. Who is this lightweight "interviewing" Cheney?

I've only seen a few minutes of this, but why do I think I'm watching Faux News?