Colin Powell compares Cheney’s book to ‘supermarket tabloids’

[Playinghardball]

Source: RawReplay
By David Edwards

Former vice president Dick Cheney has claimed that people are going to be shocked by his new book, but former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that the tome was just full of “cheap shots.”

Cheney told NBC’s Jamie Gangel last week that there would be “heads exploding all over Washington” when his new memoir “In My Time” was released.

“My head isn’t exploding and I haven’t noticed any other heads exploding in Washington, D.C.,” Powell told CBS’ Bob Schieffer Sunday. “What really sort of got my attention was this way in which he characterized it, it’s going to cause heads to explode. That’s quite a visual and in fact, the kind of headline I would expect to come out a gossip column, that’s the kind of headline you might see one of the supermarket tabloids write.”

“It was not the kind of headline I would have expected to come from a former Vice President of the United States of America. Mr. Cheney had a long and distinguished career and I hope his book that’s what he would focus on, not these cheap shots that he’s taking at me and other members of the administration who served to the best of our ability for President Bush.

Read more and watch the video from CBS’ Face the Nation, broadcast Aug. 28, 2011

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/08/colin-powell-compares-cheneys-book-to-super-market-tabloids/

[otohara]

1. Both Men Suck

Fuck you Colin Powell!
Cheap shots don't compare to the trillion dollar war you helped usher in!

[lunatica]

2. I suddenly have a craving for popcorn

I hope all Cheney's enemies come out in force. I'm glad Colin Powell is speaking out, whether I like him or not.

Let the games begin and let there be lots of blood!

[Sherman A1]

4. Agreed

[otohara]

3. Heads Exploding From IEDs and Falling Bombs

In Iraq and Afghanistan. Not so much in DC Dick!

[ThatPoetGuy]

5. I called it!

"My prediction: he savages Colin Powell."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=1807849&mesg_id=1808021

[Golden Raisin]

6. Cheney is Satan's spawn

and it's disgusting he will make even more money from his book. But Powell has zero credibility and incredible chutzpah to be playing the role of moral conscience, or commenting at all.