Woodward: Cheney Cursed At Me About 'State of Denial' & Hung Up The Phone

[kpete]

Woodward: Cheney Cursed At Me About ‘State of Denial,’ Then Hung Up The Phone

Today on Meet the Press, Bob Woodward described how Vice President Dick Cheney called him 10 days ago about Woodward’s new book State of Denial. Woodward says Cheney cursed at him (”he said what I was saying was bull-something”) and then hung up the phone.

Woodward called Cheney’s behavior a “metaphor for what’s going on. Hang up when somebody has a different point of view or information you don’t want to deal with.”

Video and Transcript at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/08/woodward-cheney/

[IdesOfOctober]

1. I Hope Woodward Gave Him the Leahy Response

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22go+fuck+yourself%22+cheney+leahy

I bet Woodward would have "felt better" afterwards.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Woodward couldn't respond with that

Woodward wasn't afforded the opportunity to give Cheney that response or any other. Cheney hung up first.

Cheney has been a sniveling coward since he was a student urging that young men from the ghettos and barrios to fight in Vietnam in his place.

[IdesOfOctober]

19. Cheney's Co-Conspirators...

... will either spend the rest of their lives in jail, or exile in a non-extradition treaty country.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

You're not a player in DC until Cheney curses at you

or shoots you.

[savemefromdumbya]

4. It's like

getting into a hell's angel chapter or maybe worse?

[Ksec]

2. Cheney's due for a good ass whoopin.

Somebody is gonna tire of him assaulting them and jack him up..

[JohnnyLib2]

3. and up goes Woodward's credibility

stick to the plan, Cheney, just stick to the plan.

[slaveplanet]

13. Yep, there are

some major theatrics going on here.

[amitten]

6. Wow. The Republicans are making themselves look SO good

lately!

:o

[guinivere]

7. Truth hurts, Cheney.

At least Cheney didn't shoot him.

[EFerrari]

8. Why don't I believe this? n/t

[Garbo 2004]

17. Because it's Woodward, Bush White House hagiographer, telling the story.

The same guy who claims he sneaked into a guarded hospital room and "interviewed" a dying William Casey who family and doctors said couldn't speak at the time.

After writing two books on the Bush Administration that the Administration was happy with, Woodward comes out with "revelations" that have been known for years, they lied and are lying.

I figure with Bush being a lame duck, and despite what the RW claims the majority of the American public do not support the Administration, perhaps Woodward with this book is laying the ground for the old "establishment's" repudiation of this crowd. The PTB (money, power, influence) will be around after this Administration. And perhaps they want a "kindlier, gentler" face on US imperialism and influence. To those who take the long term view, not just short term profits, I suspect this Administration has been a disaster.

Woody in his first two books helps prop up this regime and now, deliberately releasing this book before the midterm elections, takes what appears to be a huge swipe at them that he could have taken years ago? Perhaps Woody simply put his finger up in the wind and sees the way things are going. Perhaps there's more than that.

[EFerrari]

18. And, he's trying to set Democrats at odds with each other, to boot.

"Hagiographer" is exactly the right term, imho.

[slaveplanet]

23. It boggles the mind

The only thing missing from this whole display,

Is the smirk and the "Yeah, that's the ticket" A la Jon Lovitz.

On second thought, maybe the smirk could be detected.

[Quixote1818]

9. People behind the scenes started laughing on MTP when this was brought up

You could clearly hear laughter by more than one person when Woodward brought this up. Russert looked pissed that people were laughing and it could be heard on the TV. It made me start laughing.

[Thickasabrick]

14. I did too - Russert needs to lighten up. It was funny - especially

with Woodward's straight face.

[Kahuna]

15. That is the first time EVER, I've heard laughter from the crew on MTP..

It cracks me up just thinking about it. :)

[daleo]

10. Stay away from the quail, Mr. Woodward. n/t

[Ksec]

12. LOL yep, do NOT go huntin with dicky boy ...nt

[Bucky]

11. BREAKING: Cheney apologizes to Woodward, invites him on a weekend getaway

"I'd like to make up for my reaction last night, Bob. Why don't you come out to the ranch with me this weekend where can just hang out, talk, have a few beers, and, you know, shoot the bull..."

[RevolutionStartsNow]

16. Funny story about Cheney and cursing:

Yesterday I was at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Fest in SF (awesome FREE event every year), mostly to see Steve Earle.

In the songwriter's circle (with Steve, Billy Bragg, Guy Clark and Verlon Thompson --more on this later, including pics), Steve opened with his song "F the FCC" which contains frequent use of the, uh, F word.

At one point in the song he stopped and said, "Hey, I'm sorry if your kids are here with you and all the cursing, but wouldn't you rather have your kids learn to curse from me than from Dick Cheney?"

Cracked my 10 year old up.

[TheCowsCameHome]

20. Aw, Dick, go Cheney yourself. Why not take Chimpy on a hunting trip

It'll loosen you up a bit.

[Make7]

21. I find it rather ironic....

... that Cheney would be upset about the ethics concerning the gathering and dissemination of information.

When host Gloria Borger mentioned that Cheney had previously described the meeting between 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta and Iraqi intelligence as "pretty well confirmed," Cheney interrupted: "No, I never said that... Absoutely not." But he had said just that, on NBC 's Meet the Press (12/9/01): "That's been pretty well confirmed that [Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack."

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1577

‘State of Denial’?

Aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons
     On September 8, 2002, Vice President Cheney made an unqualified statement about the aluminum tubes on Meet the Press:

“He [Saddam] is trying, through his illicit procurement network, to acquire the equipment he needs to be able to enrich uranium to make the bombs.”

Tim Russert: “Aluminum tubes.”

VP Cheney: “Specifically aluminum tubes. ... it is now public that, in fact, he has been seeking to acquire, and we have been able to intercept and prevent him from acquiring through this particular channel, the kinds of tubes that are necessary to build a centrifuge.... But we do know, with absolute certainty, that he is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon.”

     There was a fundamental debate within the Intelligence Community before the war as to the intended purpose of the aluminum tubes that Iraq was trying to import. The Department of Energy, the Nation’s foremost nuclear weapons experts, and the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, did not believe the aluminum tubes were for centrifuges to make nuclear weapons. Instead, they believed they were for conventional artillery rockets. But Vice President Cheney did not acknowledge any division within the Intelligence Community. He stated that the U.S. knew “with absolute certainty” that Iraq was trying to obtain the tubes for nuclear weapons purposes.

http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2004/070804cheney.pdf

Bull-something.

- Make7

[madmusic]

22. Stay off of planes, Mr. Woodward.

Them terrorists are very scary!