{"id":2155,"date":"2009-12-02T18:45:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T22:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2009-12-08T01:23:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T05:23:01","slug":"cheney-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/12\/02\/cheney-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney’s Steno Pool (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somebody please explain why the garbage and lies spewed by Richard Cheney are routinely treated like they’re gospel. Dick makes George W. Bush look like a statesman, for heaven sakes. And yet media outlets<\/a> love to present the former Veep’s vicious distortions and malicious rants virtually without challenge.<\/p>\n

The latest example is Politico’s<\/em> regurgitation of Cheney’s lengthy tirade against President Obama.<\/a> A tirade, I might add, made on the eve of Obama’s Afghanistan troop buildup speech at West Point.<\/p>\n

Politico<\/em> deserves a double limerick, don’t you think?<\/p>\n

Dick Cheney’s Steno Pool (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Dear Politico<\/em>, kindly explain
\nWhy you act like Dick Cheney is sane.
\nYou repeat all his lies
\nLike they’re truthful and wise.
\nYour stenography’s worse than inane.<\/p>\n

Richard Cheney has harmed our great nation.
\nYet you act like each Cheney quotation
\nIs golden and true,
\nWorth transcribing on cue.
\nYou’re not journos — you just take dictation.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> Unbelievable! Apparently the Pulitzer Board is fond of Cheney’s steno pool. It just elected Jim VandeHei, executive editor and co-founder of Politico, to the Pulitzer Board.<\/a> Can a Pulitzer Prize for Drudge be far behind?<\/p>\n

Related Posts: Ode To Fresh Faces;<\/a> and Bush & Cheney’s Blunderland Song Parody<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Somebody please explain why the garbage and lies spewed by Richard Cheney are routinely treated like they’re gospel. Dick makes George W. Bush look like a statesman, for heaven sakes. And yet media outlets love to present the former Veep’s vicious distortions and malicious rants virtually without challenge. The latest example is Politico’s regurgitation of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[95,16,21,8,20,26,719,6,7,3,9,1022,17],"tags":[1023,439,1031,275,1024,1030],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}