Cheney Presidential Memoir Heavy On Criticizing George W. Bush

[EEO]

With Cheney recently in the news getting caught in lies on Fox "News" (of all places), some reflection (spurious and ridiculous) on his manipulation of George W. Bush AKA King Meddler...

Cheney Presidential Memoir Heavy On Criticizing George W. Bush

WASHINGTON (The Nil Admirari) - Today, excerpts from former Vice President Dick Cheney's presidential memoir titled "Leading America From Underneath The White House" were released. The 33,000-page book absent of pictures and attempts to personify Cheney was heavy on its criticism of George W. Bush, which the text referred to as "King Meddler."

And...

On making the case for going to war with Iraq, Cheney's book declared:

King Meddler was easily convinced to invade Iraq after I put on a convincing puppet show for him that detailed the fantasyland connections between 9/11 and Saddam Hussein. Of course, I was the one who got the troops in the administration singing the same tune about scary weapons Iraq never had. That goddamned Colin Powell was especially difficult to browbeat, but after I called him into the Oval Office underneath the White House he learned to sing my song really quick.

[UTUSN]

1. Is this satire? If it is, i'm taking back my Rec. n/t

[patricia92243]

5. We no longer have to say this is satire. I alerted on a "joke" that someone just made up

and was told to "get a sense of humor." When some people learn they can get away with out and out misleading statement and NOT label them satire, the practice will get so out of hand that eventually that something will have to be done about it.

Meanwhile, it make DU look really bad and a source of rumors - when it would be so easily taken care of by the necessary sarcasm notice. Oh, well.

[PatrickforO]

2. I'm thinking this is satire and these people are like the Onion.

Cheney probably THOUGHT these things, but it's doubtful he'd ever say them.

[EEO]

3. Correct and correct.

Artists use lies to uncover the truth, politicians use lies to cover up the truth.

Definitely not an original quote by me.

[hedda_foil]

4. Yes, it's a satirical site.

Though I wouldn't put it past Cheney.

[HughBeaumont]

6. Definitely Satire.

http://www.theniladmirari.com/2015/07/chris-christie-yells-at-one-millionth.html?m=1

[Facility Inspector]

7. It's weird to think

that there is a generation of people out there with no living link to the Great Depression or even to someone who knew what vaudeville was.

That's why much humor isn't very funny nowadays, and they don't seem to quite grasp what effective satire is.

A credible sounding fake news story that inculcates the "gotcha!" rather than the "funny" just seems rather banal.

Just mein .02 pfennig.