Dick Cheney’s Steno Pool (Updated)
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 Cheney’s lengthy tirade against President Obama. A tirade, I might add, made on the eve of Obama’s Afghanistan troop buildup speech at West Point.
Politico deserves a double limerick, don’t you think?
Dick Cheney’s Steno Pool (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Dear Politico, kindly explain
Why you act like Dick Cheney is sane.
You repeat all his lies
Like they’re truthful and wise.
Your stenography’s worse than inane.
Richard Cheney has harmed our great nation.
Yet you act like each Cheney quotation
Is golden and true,
Worth transcribing on cue.
You’re not journos — you just take dictation.
UPDATE: 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. Can a Pulitzer Prize for Drudge be far behind?
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Tags: Afghanistan Strategy, Dick Cheney Humor, Drudge Humor, Media Humor, Politico, Pulitzer Prize
Bravo! As a limerick writer myself, I bow to your word choice and exacting meter.
Mad, another terrific set of lims. You are just *so* good!
Thanks so much Deb and Nate!
LOL because they do leave their brains at the door when they interview the Dickster, and the only thing that’s operating is their tape recorders.
The reason, Politicos say
is “This is how we earn our pay
“We parrot their lines
“or face massive lines
“for trips down Guantanamo way.”
Hi – just a repeat to let you know I got this submission as well. See ya
majii, that’s a large assumption you’re making there, with little evidence to support it. They have brains?