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Dick Cheney Book Tour: 11 Questions Reporters Should Be Asking

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/31/dick-cheney-book-tour-2011_n_942871.html#comments

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Imzadi
Excellent questions. What other questions do YOU have?

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Dick Cheney has spent his career not revealing himself, and in his new memoir and the ensuing PR blitz, he appears to be staying largely in character.

But as the former vice president uses media interviews to sell books, reporters have an unprecedented opportunity to confront him about his highly controversial legacy and push him to divulge more about how he pursued his agenda.

And there's so much material -- starting of course with Cheney's cheerful acknowledgment of his role in promoting governmental conduct that is flatly illegal and conflicts with traditional American values.

Here are some questions journalists could be asking Cheney -- and, most importantly, some facts he should not be allowed to escape.

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26 comments // Dick Cheney Book Tour: 11 Questions Reporters Should Be Asking

  • ingsoc1984
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      ingsoc1984  

    • The Republican Taliban is hard at work rewriting and revising history. And as long as there are citizens to swallow their lies, they will continue to spew it out. One good question to ask the dark lord is: how much profit he made from the Iraq war.

    • 9 months ago
  • sugarmountian
  • bike10
  • MatriKiran
  • Imzadi
  • Anonmaly
  • p122345
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  
    • p122345:

      Some have ideas how to do that, I heard one was to set up an award for Dick Cheney to win out of the country by making it so attractive and so prestigious that he'd be willing to go there for it, then have INTERPOL arrest him and deliver him to trail at the Hague.

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-cohen/coming-to-nbc-to-catch-a_b_167530.html

      Another was for the media to change their interview tactics to those like they do on "To Catch a Predator"

      So here's my advice: Go big. Go after superstars and only well-documented, slam-dunk cases of war crimes. Coming to NBC next week: "To Catch a Cheney." How do you lure such big names to an NBC News lair for their ambush interview? You simply invite them.

      Given the soft treatment they've received over the years, they'll come running quicker than a Net perv to Lolita. Trust me: the element of surprise is on NBC's side -- since these uber-officials are confident their crimes will remain eternally off-limits.

      To lure Dick Cheney from his undisclosed location, NBC's "To Catch a War Criminal" producers could pretend to be booking "Meet the Press." Cheney has been as comfy on that show as Alec Baldwin on "Saturday Night Live." It came out under oath in the Scooter Libby trial that Vice President Cheney's office viewed "Meet the Press" as "our best format," a program in which Cheney could "control the message." Putting him on that show, testified his communications chief, "was a tactic we used often."

      It was on "Meet the Press" after 9/11 that Cheney warned: "We have to work the dark side, if you will. We're going to spend time in the shadows."

      So Mr. Dark Side shows up at NBC studios expecting another puff job, and instead is confronted on camera with witnesses, documents, victims of his various war crimes. It's riveting television and real journalism as his violations of the Geneva Conventions of War in matters of torture and kidnapping are detailed.

      The program climaxes big-time with Cheney cross-examined about Iraq and his lead role in committing the ultimate war crime (as described by the Nuremberg tribunal): launching an unprovoked attack upon another country.

    • 9 months ago
  • p122345
  • Argon18
  • Joeydee44
  • warman1138
  • Buckeye_Bill
  • warman1138
  • Buckeye_Bill
  • warman1138
  • Argon18
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      Argon18  

    • http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-25-2007/cheney-camera-3?xrs=share_...

      Those are all very good questions, it's a shame they won't be asked, much less have any hope of being answered.

      Even when we had the kind of media that would push for the investigation of Watergate they might not have had the courage to bring up to Cheney since there is another very important question that they fear their lives would be at risk to ask.

      When did you become a Sith Lord and reforge Sauron's Ring? As Jon Stewart tried to tell Cheney "The darkside of the force is with you, but you don't have to use it EVERY time"

    • 9 months ago
  • Vic_Romano
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      Vic_Romano  

    • I just want to hear an arresting officer ask him if he's aware of his Miranda rights. Heaven knows, he's dubiously worthy of them at that.

    • 9 months ago
  • Progresshiv
  • Buckeye_Bill
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      Buckeye_Bill  
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    • Maureen Dowd, a columnist for the New York Times, criticized Cheney's book in an op-ed titled "Darth Vader Vents." In the piece, Down claims Cheney's memoir "veers unpleasantly between spin, insisting he was always right, and score-settling, insisting that anyone who opposed him was wrong."

      Dowd called Cheney's comments on the capture of Osama bin Laden -- which he said came after "after years of diligent and dedicated work" -- "tacky."

      "He acts like he is America," Dowd wrote. "But America didn't like Dick Cheney."

    • 9 months ago
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  

    • By all means, these are the 11 questions that reporters should be asking Cheney. But we no longer have journalists/reporters with balls or who are not corporate shills. Bush/Cheney have been off-limits for the tough questions from day one, while Obama gets grilled by O'Reilly. The 4th estate is a joke.

    • 9 months ago
  • Buckeye_Bill
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      Buckeye_Bill  

    • "Your father was a staunch Democrat and since you did come from humble beginnings growing up in a Democratic household, when did you choose to go over to the dark side? Was it after your second time getting kicked out of Yale that you developed a hatred for the Privileged Class that you were not a member of and you had a burning desire within you to prove "them" wrong? That you were "better" than all of "them" and you first took steps to change your lot in life? Did you change then?"

      This is what I would ask him. I would like to hear when he thinks he changed within his soul.

      We all have our moment of epiphany.

    • 9 months ago
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