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Late Night: Cheney Gets Whupped By a Box

By Jeralyn, Section Media
Posted on Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 11:42:06 PM EST
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Soon to be ex-Vice President (how good it feels to write that) Dick Cheney will attend Barack Obama's inauguration in a wheelchair. He injured his back moving boxes into his new home.

I've read a lot of tweets on tonight's parties. Sounds like a lot of long lines, cold weather and traffic. On the other hand, everyone is genuinely enjoying their spot in the front row of history.

Here's an oldie but a goodie: the first time Chevy Chase imitated Gerald Ford falling down to open Saturday Night Live.

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    Creepy (5.00 / 1) (#1)
    by squeaky on Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 11:47:27 PM EST
    If he shouts "Mein Furher, I can walk" right before the swearing in, that wouldn't surprise me:

    Roger Ailes

    All while tryng to keep his (5.00 / 1) (#27)
    by scribe on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 01:58:46 AM EST
    right arm from going all woody and popping off the chair's arm.  Unsuccessfully.

    But seriously, this is the guy who has to be the corpse at every wedding and the bride at every funeral.  So, why should we have expected him to behave any differently now?  He'll probably show up wearing his bomber jacket with the fur-lined hood, just like he did at the Auschwitz memorial a few years back in one of his few "Classic Vice-President" Memorials and State Funerals appearances.  Still all scheming, snarling and glowering and now rolling in and out, just like Old Man Potter.

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    I could feel sorry for Cheney (5.00 / 6) (#2)
    by Steve M on Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 11:49:49 PM EST
    but only if he suffered "severe pain."  Mere "pain" would not be sufficient.

    lol (5.00 / 3) (#3)
    by squeaky on Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 11:50:21 PM EST


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    Maybe we should waterboard him (5.00 / 2) (#4)
    by andgarden on Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 11:53:25 PM EST
    to find out if he was moving boxes of secret documents.

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    Uncalled For (none / 0) (#7)
    by Jeralyn on Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 11:57:06 PM EST
    Please don't wish physicial pain on anyone. Two wrongs....

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    It's dark humor (5.00 / 1) (#9)
    by andgarden on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:01:59 AM EST
    based on a ridiculous distinction I believe Cheney made himself.

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    Besides, (none / 0) (#23)
    by weltec2 on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:54:17 AM EST
    it's hard to think about Cheney without mordent chuckles and sick humor.

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    Comedy Routine (none / 0) (#8)
    by squeaky on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:01:16 AM EST
    He is joking, bad taste but still funny.

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    ok, I didn't realize that (none / 0) (#11)
    by Jeralyn on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:03:17 AM EST
    never mind.

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    I am not wishing him pain (none / 0) (#15)
    by Steve M on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:09:56 AM EST
    I am merely snarking on the definition of torture favored by Cheney and his comrades.

    Also, if you stub your toe and I say "I'll sympathize, but only if it's broken," that might be a rude thing to say but it doesn't mean I wish you a broken toe!

    For the record, I hope Dick Cheney enjoys a long and uneventful retirement playing with his grandkids.

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    I hope he gets (5.00 / 3) (#26)
    by ricosuave on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 01:42:59 AM EST
    lots of visiting days with the kids at the correctional facility.

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    Halliburton (none / 0) (#17)
    by weltec2 on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:28:42 AM EST
    has not been paying him an enormous retainer so that he can relax with his grandkids. I expect the no-bid contracts to continue to flow for the next four years. I sincerely hope BO proves me wrong.

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    Halliburton moved to Dubai (none / 0) (#44)
    by sallywally on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 01:14:33 PM EST
    Cheney will have a villa there? I'd love to see Lynne have to wear a birka, unable to drive herself, etc.

    If that's how it is there.....

    Cheney won't be prosecuted in Dubai. I wonder of lots of other countries will set themselves up to arrest and try Bush/Cheney if they enter their nations.

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    sallywally... (5.00 / 1) (#46)
    by vml68 on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 03:07:32 PM EST
    Lynne Cheney will not have to wear a burka and she will defnitely be able to drive. Dubai is the most "liberal" city in the arab world.

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    As long as these wishes (none / 0) (#12)
    by ThatOneVoter on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:04:49 AM EST
    reflect your pursuit of a vital national interest, I'll let this slide.

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    This is my favorite title ever. (5.00 / 4) (#5)
    by Teresa on Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 11:54:31 PM EST
    I don't believe he was moving his own boxes. I wonder what he was really up to?

    Bent over (5.00 / 3) (#19)
    by CoralGables on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:37:48 AM EST
    to pick up his shotgun without bending his knees.

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    He Just Wants To Sleep (none / 0) (#6)
    by squeaky on Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 11:55:31 PM EST
    And be left alone.

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    Me too. (none / 0) (#13)
    by oldpro on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:06:08 AM EST


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    I'm so glad we can do that for him! (none / 0) (#14)
    by Teresa on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:08:51 AM EST
    Where is he moving to? Poor Texas?

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    To Virginia, (none / 0) (#42)
    by KeysDan on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 09:00:09 AM EST
    McLean. Close enough to still cause mischief.

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    Some things don't change, it seems (5.00 / 2) (#24)
    by Cream City on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 01:22:34 AM EST
    since Cheney has been doing the heavy lifting all along.

    Also unchanged:  the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who booked a speech in D.C. at Howard U this weekend -- and at least he didn't hump a pulpit, but he still managed to make outrageous remarks.  Per Dana Milbank, the "Jeremiad" is not over:

    "Barack got a new address, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," Wright preached. "He moved from lying on the corner of Woe Is Me and It's 'They' Fault. Check him out: He now lives in a mansion on the corner of Praise God Boulevard and Thank You Jesus Avenue."  Obama, shrewdly, decided to skip Wright's performance at Howard. . . .  

    Wright at first seemed to be avoiding talk about his former parishioner. He related the biblical story of Jesus meeting . . . "the blind, the lame, the paralyzed" -- and curing a man who hadn't been able to walk for 38 years. "When Jesus stepped into his story, the Lord gave him new ability," Wright said.

    He gradually extended the parable so that the man Jesus cured became Obama. "The Lord stepped into that scrawny black kid's story and gave him new ability," Wright preached. "The half-Kenyan, half-Kansan said, 'Yes, we can.' He had a new attitude. . . ."

    Wright drew an explicitly racial message from this. "He said stand up -- stand up against devious racism!" Wright preached. "Stand up, black people! . . . Stand up, black man!"

    Wright had gone on for nearly an hour. Music started to play, the way it does when a speaker goes on too long at the Academy Awards. "I'm thinking I'm through," he said.

    Don't count on it. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, it seems, won't be through anytime soon.
    Faking it? (5.00 / 1) (#25)
    by ricosuave on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 01:40:08 AM EST
    Maybe he is faking it just to get good parking this week in DC.

    Don't believe the spin. (5.00 / 3) (#30)
    by rise hillary rise on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 06:55:41 AM EST
    The "back injury" story is total BS, IMO. there is no way that cardiac cripple Cheney was carrying heavy boxes into his house. this guy has been hidden out of sight for months, travels with his own ambulance and medical team and famously hides the truth about his health. what we do know is that he has an implanted defibrillator and takes Coumadin to keep his blood from clotting.

    He'll be in a wheelchair because he is too frail to walk that distance, especially in the frigid weather expected for today. my guess is that this is not a new development, we've just been shielded from it.

    wonder if he'll be wearing a suit and tie or whether he'll show up in that infamous nylon parka he wore at the WWII memorial a few years back.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43247-2005Jan27.html

    JUST EXACTLY (none / 0) (#31)
    by weltec2 on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 07:08:04 AM EST
    the kind of contempt that we would expect.

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    I'll be honest, I won't begrudge a sick old (none / 0) (#32)
    by tigercourse on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 07:16:53 AM EST
    man wearing a coat.

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    nor would I. (5.00 / 1) (#33)
    by rise hillary rise on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 07:24:42 AM EST
    we both know that Cheney has the bucks to own a beautiful (and very warm) wool or cashmere overcoat, just like many of the other people out there. it's the disrespect of showing up like he just slung a rifle off his back after a morning hunting deer-and dressed like it-at the Auschwits memorial that was so shameful.

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    I VERY much agree... (none / 0) (#34)
    by weltec2 on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 07:32:45 AM EST
    but I am trying to be part of... what is going on.

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    That's a good point. I'll admit that I really (none / 0) (#35)
    by tigercourse on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 07:36:08 AM EST
    don't know how effective fancier coats are.

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    I don't know (none / 0) (#39)
    by BernieO on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 08:45:51 AM EST
    He looked pretty healthy in his interview with Jim Lehrer. John Stewart had a funny bit about it last night.

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    We know they weren't the empty boxes (5.00 / 1) (#36)
    by ruffian on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 07:45:25 AM EST
    from his archives (see previous post). Must have been all the unsold copies of Lynn's books.

    But I don't believe the story at all. The man is not well, and has not been for a long time. He was not doing his own moving.

    I never thought he would (none / 0) (#10)
    by ThatOneVoter on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:02:49 AM EST
    last 8 years. What a miracle of modern medicine.
    The guy had 2, maybe 3 heart attacks before he was 45, 5 or so open heart surgeries, and still ate fatty, salty food. Amazing.

    I believe had a (none / 0) (#38)
    by BernieO on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 08:43:47 AM EST
    DUI, too.

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    from Japan (none / 0) (#16)
    by weltec2 on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:20:43 AM EST
    I get, "Sorry, but the clip is not available for your location."

    Ditto from India.. (none / 0) (#29)
    by oculus on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 04:32:55 AM EST


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    I have a Christmas Eve kind (none / 0) (#18)
    by caseyOR on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:31:54 AM EST
    of feeling. You know, the one where you can't sleep because you know something really great is happening the next day and you're just too excited to sleep.

    i thought Bush would never leave. Talk about overstaying your welcome. What was it Mark twain said about guests and fish?

    Me too. I just took some Benadryl (none / 0) (#20)
    by Teresa on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:39:32 AM EST
    so I can go to sleep.

    On the front page of Daily Kos, they have the debut of their DKTV and it's a long clip from election night. It shows the states being called and each network's call of the election and then just a little bit of Obama's speech. It shows the people celebrating.

    Watching it again made me cry. Tomorrow, I think I'll just feel a lot of relief that it is over. It's been a long long eight years.

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    Was Ben Franklin (none / 0) (#21)
    by CoralGables on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:47:32 AM EST
    I believe...Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.

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    My what would (none / 0) (#22)
    by weltec2 on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 12:51:41 AM EST
    I give to know what is in those boxes.

    ...probably box loads of dead puppies used to show George how it should be done.

    Good news on the Unity front: (none / 0) (#28)
    by lentinel on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 04:02:02 AM EST
    From Today's Washington Post:

    "61% in Poll Back Rick Warren as Invocation Pick."

    Maybe but (none / 0) (#40)
    by BernieO on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 08:52:08 AM EST
    at least Sally Quinn is getting hammered in the comments to her piece in today's op-ed section of the Wash Post defending the choice of Warren.

    I was thrilled to see how many view this hypocrite with the disdain she so richly deserves. (Miss Priss had the gall to express outrage with Bill Clinton for his sexual dalliance even though hubby Ben Bradlee had written in his memoir about how Sally had pursued him when he was married, leading to an adulterous affair and subsequent marriage!)Now if only the beltway insiders' club would figure this out and stop cherishing invites to her soirees.

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    I love that. What a cheap, (none / 0) (#45)
    by sallywally on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 01:21:39 PM EST
    sleazy, narrow, out of touch woman.

    I heard some voiceover on one network or another that people think the Obamas will be big social butterflies, but they are family people who want to sit on the floor at their friends' houses on Friday night and eat pizza. Not so sure they'll suck up to the Village. I hope they won't! They'll be in a good tradition with the Clintons.

    Maybe the current Village is just an artifact of the "old Cold War mentality," and we're in the future now! LOL

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    Moving into his new home (none / 0) (#37)
    by ruffian on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 07:50:12 AM EST
    in Alexandria VA. Guess there will be no retiring to Wyoming for him.

    They Just Don't Make Political Ads (none / 0) (#41)
    by daring grace on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 08:54:26 AM EST
    like this any more.

    Shoestring budget for sure--though it has the feel of watching it live with that piano off screen.

    And you gotta love the touches like rhyming  'Adlai' with madly.

    People around here might especially appreciate the reference to Illinois political corruption.

    Playing for sympathy (none / 0) (#43)
    by mmc9431 on Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 10:02:18 AM EST
    Maybe he's trying for the sympathy appeal! How can we investigate or drag this poor sick guy into court? You can't kick them when their down.

    I agree there's no way he was moving boxes. Unless they're the ones that they missed with the shredder.

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