Snow: Cheney ‘Is Not A Guy Who Slips Up’
Snow: Cheney ‘Is Not A Guy Who Slips Up’
Vice President Cheney is under scrutiny for the following exchange with North Dakota radio host Scott Henen:
HENEN: And I’ve had people call and say, please, let the Vice President know that if it takes dunking a terrorist in water, we’re all for it, if it saves American lives…Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: It’s a no-brainer for me, but for a while there, I was criticized as being the Vice President “for torture.” We don’t torture. That’s not what we’re involved in.
Cheney’s comments were widely understood as an endorsement of a practice called “waterboarding” — a technique where prisoner “who is bound and gagged has water poured over him to make him think he is about to drown.” (In 1947, the U.S. tried and convicted a Japanese officer with war crimes for waterboarding a U.S. civilian.)
Today, Press Secretary Tony Snow insisted that Cheney’s comments did not endorse waterboarding. Snow said that Cheney does not comment on specific interrogation techniques and is “not a guy who slips up.” ABC’s Ann Compton countered that Cheney “did go up and curse a senator to his face on the Senate floor and accidentally shot his friend.” Watch it:
Transcript:
SNOW: I’m telling you what the Vice President — I talked to Leeann about it. She says, No, he wasn’t referring to waterboarding; he was referring to using a program of questioning, not talking about waterboarding.
Let me put it this way: You’ve got Dick Cheney, who has been head of an intelligence committee. He’s been the secretary of defense. He’s been the vice president. This is not a guy who slips up. And he’s also not a guy who does winks and nods about things that involve matters that you don’t talk about for political reasons. Sorry.
[Snip]
COMPTON: Saying that Vice President Cheney doesn’t make mistakes like this, he did go up and curse a senator to his face on the Senate floor and accidentally shot his friend. So he’s not perfect.
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October 27th, 2006 at 3:49 pmCheney is all for waterboarding. If he wasn’t, he would make a point to clearly say so. By not being against it, he is for it.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:54 pmI don’t think he was slipping up. I think he wanted us to hear this…in a “watch out, you’re next, we’ll stop at NOTHING, NOTHING EXCEPT TOTAL WORLD DOMINATION!!! grrrrr!!!”-kind of way.
How did we end up with these crazy old farts (including Rummy).
BTW, where the hell is Condi lately?
October 27th, 2006 at 3:54 pmdid Snow bang his head on the podium after that slapdown my Ann C.?
October 27th, 2006 at 3:55 pmCOMPTON: Saying that Vice President Cheney doesn’t make mistakes like this, he did go up and curse a senator to his face on the Senate floor and accidentally shot his friend. So he’s not perfect.
LOL!!!
Truth to power… and the toadies of power.
THANK YOU ANN!
October 27th, 2006 at 3:55 pm“Let me put it this way: You’ve got Dick Cheney, who has been head of an intelligence committee. He’s been the secretary of defense. He’s been the vice president. This is not a guy who slips up.” -Snowjob
Oh my God! Did Snowjob just admit that Cheney shot his friend on purpose! :D
October 27th, 2006 at 3:55 pmJust more duplicity. Tell these folks one thing, tell these other folks another thing. It’s what they do.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:55 pmWhen Cheney said he approved of a “dunk in water”, I’m sure he was referring to like a “bath” — yanno, so the prisoner wouldn’t feel socially awkward while being “interviewed” by the CIA agent. Very sensitive & considerate guy, that Cheney.
October 27th, 2006 at 3:56 pmOh, and…
Everything is a ‘no-brainer’ if you don’t have a brain and use the black lump of rotten coal in your heart to make decisions…
October 27th, 2006 at 3:57 pm“We do not torture” is just so open-ended. The whole Administration (Bush, Cheney, spokesmen) never complete the phrase…
We do not torture….
….frogs?
….Republicans?
….Grover Norquist?
They’ve never said that they “do not torture terrorists“.
Just know they’re parsing their words.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:00 pmSnow: “Let me give you the no brainers here. No brainer No. 1 is that we don’t torture. No brainer No. 2: We don’t break the law - our own or international law. No brainer No. 3: the vice president doesn’t give away questioning techniques. No. 4, the administration does believe in legal questioning techniques of known killers whose questioning can, in fact, be used to save American lives.”
Lies; lies, and more lies. At the heart of this election is whether the American people should support people who have contempt for the most basic of American liberties, who have suspended habeas corpus for the indefinite future and who think it is a “no-brainer”, in this respect, to adopt the moral interrogation standards of the Khmer Rouge.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:01 pmIs this the same slip-up free Cheney who said Saddam has reconstituted nuclear weapons?
October 27th, 2006 at 4:03 pmIs Snow talking about the same slip-up free Cheney who said Saddam has reconstituted nuclear weapons?
October 27th, 2006 at 4:03 pmAs for slipping up… um… Tony? Hello, Tony Snow! Dick Cheney is a megalomaniac. He slips up with every other thing he says. Tony, you, on the other hand, are a human slip up.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:05 pmCan’t forget about “Last throes” either.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:08 pmAll of a sudden they are embarrassed for being exposed as tyrants & fascists….Gee Tony, that swastika doesn’t look good on your tie….dumb move dude.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:10 pmTony Snow is so smooth, he can slip through a cat’s ass stretched over a wash barrel.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:11 pm“Dick Cheney slip ups are unaccepable, hehehe.”
October 27th, 2006 at 4:12 pmDon’t you know anything? That shooting thing was all the other guy’s fault. He forgot to duck! Oh, don’t say duck too loud around Cheney.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:15 pmFirst, way to go Ann!
Second, I hope they let you keep your White House credentials. I mean, you proved Tony Snow was bullshitting people. That can’t be good for you.
And third, I wish TP could have provided a little bit more video, like how Tony responded to her remarks. Any chance of that, TP?
October 27th, 2006 at 4:18 pmLike every Bush republican, Mr. Snow’s primary job requirement is to deny, obfuscate and refuse to admit the truth. And when that doesn’t work, LIE. The last thing Snow can afford to do is be sincere and honest if he wants to keep his job. He has become exactly what his predecessor was, a shamelessly embarassing laughingstock. His job is to lie. He’s a professional liar.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:19 pmMaybe Cheney thinks that a “dunk in the water” is like baptism, yeah, that must be it, we’re “baptizing” the terrorists, not waterboarding!
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October 27th, 2006 at 4:23 pmSnow is much better at lying that Scotty was. I miss Scotty.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:24 pmCheney never slips up he f**ks up everything he touches. There’s a nuance of difference - one implies a lapse, the other, incompetence. And G. W. Bush considers him a guru to boot.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:25 pmEVERYTHING Darth Cheney says is calculated - except when he “slips up” accidentally on purpose. Cursing Leahy in the Senate was intended.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:30 pmSnow says Cheney’s don’t imply endorsement of waterboarding - but this was a message to the believers that Cheney and Bush alone remain tough on terror and will use whatever means are necessary to accomplish their end, Constitution and Geneva be damned.
How much are they paying Snow-job? Not enough, if he can polish these many Repug t*rd nuggets to loook like the truth. His job is much like the guy who follows the elephant parade, except he is dealing with larger depoosits, and more of them!
October 27th, 2006 at 4:33 pmYes, Snow job is a much more glib liar than the stuttering McClellan.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:33 pmYou know, given that we don’t torture, and given that we are just dunking folks in water, I’m wondering how much information a trained CIA interviewer could get out of Vice President Cheney or Defense Secretary Rumsfeld with regards to the war in Iraq. They might know something that could save a few American lives, don’t cha know?
October 27th, 2006 at 4:36 pmyeah “snow job” makes scotty look like a fun guy…
and that’s not an easy thing to do!
October 27th, 2006 at 4:41 pmThis man is as evil as they can get. I hope that he gets his.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:42 pmLet’s just keep in mind that the technique Cheney thinks is a no-brainer was used by Japanese interrogators on American prisoners during WWII. For doing this to prisoners, Japanese soldiers were prosecuted for war crimes after the war. It’s right there in the history books, folks. Cheney is, technically speaking, a war criminal.
October 27th, 2006 at 5:30 pmI hope people will read the entire press conference to see the questions Snow is having to contend with. This administration is in a full tailspin. http://www.whitehouse.gov/ news/ releases/ 2006/ 10/ 20061027-1.html
October 27th, 2006 at 5:44 pmMr.Snow, are you now, or have you ever told a LIE to the American people?
October 27th, 2006 at 5:47 pmJUST ANSWER THE QUESTION!…..duh..duh….
bailiff..take mr.snow to jail….NEXT.
MR. SNOW: Again, that’s not the sort of thing that we would ever acknowledge if it were the case, so I can’t say yes or no.
All right. Thank you.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:00 pmExcept for when he’s shooting people in the face. Cheney doesn’t slip up, he f**ks up.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:01 pmwhat a total clusterf*ck.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:04 pmTony’s dad wishes the rubber didn’t slip OFF his pencil thin pecker when he was doing Tony’s mom.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:06 pmthe “not a guy…” part of that answer might have been true, otherwise, ol’Tony’s battin 1000 on the “lie all the time and never stop” part of the job.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:09 pmI just watched the entire interview with Lynne Cheney and Wolf Blitzer and it was unbelievable.
She basically told Wolf he was supporting the enemy and wanted them to win. She questioned his patriotism and called his news reports “terrorist propaganda”.
Then she went on to sell her book.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:10 pmI just watched the entire interview with Lynne Cheney and Wolf Blitzer and it was unbelievable.
She basically told Wolf he was supporting the enemy and wanted them to win. She questioned his patriotism and called his news reports “terrorist propaganda”.
Then she went on to sell her book.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:11 pmAnyone else tired of the administration trying to “Gaslight” the nation?
October 27th, 2006 at 6:15 pmShorter version of Snow’s prattle: The Leader knows what he is doing. The Leader is omniscient, and infallible. Trust us. All hail the Leader.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:22 pmSnow has a really punchable face.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:23 pmI agree with snowjob. Cheney doesn’t “slip up”…..he F***s up. Big difference.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:44 pmI think it’s sick how he can’t defend what happened in any logical way so Snow back tracks and lists the importance of Dick Cheny.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:51 pmJesus, this Snow character really does insult people’s intelligence doesn’t he? How can he have the brass neck to stand there any say that? The mind boggles.
October 27th, 2006 at 7:11 pmUm, doesn’t slip up, Mr Snow? Maybe this will jog your memory:
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Is that your final answer, Tony?
October 27th, 2006 at 7:25 pmI’m pretty sure they were talking about water boarding.
October 27th, 2006 at 7:55 pmWestCountryEddie,
It’s a lack of conscience and lack of guilt…All psychopaths are that way.
October 27th, 2006 at 7:56 pmDick Cheney is a criminal nincompoop who messes up everything > PERIOD.
October 27th, 2006 at 8:23 pmUSA
Surely they aren’t that bad? The current US admin worries me but are the psychopaths?
October 27th, 2006 at 8:25 pmSo “Dick” says all that shit on purpose?
Of course he does, it’s brilliant! He’s an evil genius.
Tony Snow is so smooth, he can slip through a cat’s ass stretched over a wash barrel.
Comment by ForTruth
Um, WTF?
Wait!! Nevermind…
October 27th, 2006 at 8:55 pmthis is very, very simple: the cheney-maggot is not denying that he supports waterboarding; he’s saying that he doesn’t consider waterboarding to be torture.
October 27th, 2006 at 9:02 pm.
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Comment by Hillbilly
Made my freak’n day! can’t… st o p .. laugh ing! Send HLP pleeease…
October 28th, 2006 at 10:21 amIt’s oook. I’m alright. I just have to clean up the pee.
October 28th, 2006 at 10:24 amWar criminal NAZIs like super a**hole Cheney are obviously not against any type of murder never mind illegal torture.Nothing new about killing for money with american policies. BLOW-BACK is just KARMA .
October 29th, 2006 at 3:11 pm[…] “Vice President Cheney said yesterday that he was not referring to an interrogation technique known as ‘waterboarding’ when he told an interviewer this week that dunking terrorism suspects in water was a ‘no-brainer.’†Read the transcript and judge for yourself. […]
October 30th, 2006 at 9:39 am[…] in torture] is being affirmed” by the torture practices employed in the show. Undoubtedly, the Vice President’s sanction of tactics such as waterboarding also contributes to that […]
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