Cheney’s office responds to Chavez slip-up.
By on Nov 3rd, 2007 at 12:03 pm
Cheney’s office responds to Chavez slip-up.
As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, Vice President Cheney referred to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as the leader of Peru in a speech in Dallas. The Washington Post followed-up with Cheney’s office:
A spokeswoman for Cheney, Lea Anne McBride, said later that Cheney’s reference to Peru was “a simple slip of the tongue.” Referring to Peruvian leader Alan Garcia, she said by e-mail: “Both the president and vice president hold President Garcia and the people of Peru in high regard.”
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November 3rd, 2007 at 12:07 pmAs I have said before, this was a strange “slip of the tongue” for Darth Cheney . . . Peru doesn’t have any oil.
It could be that his implanted defibrillator kicked in while he was speaking and screwed up his “geography file”.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:11 pm“Both the president and vice president hold President Garcia and the people of Peru in high regard.â€
now if they could just find it on a map.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:11 pmSure Dick because of the high esteem we all hold you in we should just cut you some slack on this right? Hold your breath while we do that.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:13 pmCall me cynical but I find it hard to believe Cheney holds anything in high regard other than power. And the only thing Bush holds in high regard is his bike.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:14 pm“simple slip of the tongue”…um, yeah…that would be if he had said Venezoolia or Iranizuela. To substitute a complete other country w/a name nowhere near the spelling/pronunciation…that’s a big ass brain fart and shows he is NOT on his game.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 pmI say mental health checks for Darth and Shrub stat! And by folks that are of no relation to this assministration.
Venezuela = Peru? I don’t think so.
Elspeth
somethin’s up… he’s got peru on his mind for SOME reason…
i mean, the question was about venezuela, mentioned seconds earlier…
peru? not even in the news of late, is it?
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm…
oh jeez… was i ever wrong…
just search “Peru” in the google news…
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=Peru&btnG=Search+News
Peru to deploy extra police to quell drug violence
Reuters – 20 hours ago
Two Peru Mine Unions Say To Support Monday’s National Strike
CNNMoney.com – 22 hours ago
Peru willing to strengthen cooeration with China
Xinhua, China – Nov 1, 2007 (ding!)
Free-Trade Agreement with Peru Moves Forward
Wisconsin Ag Connection, WI – Nov 2, 2007
and so much more…
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:22 pm.
“Both the president and vice president hold President Garcia and the people of Peru in high regard.â€
And we find them very articulate, and a credit to their race.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:24 pm/sarcasm
Unless Lima went to the trouble of trademarking the name Peru, they don’t have a leg to stand on. You snooze, you lose.
Peru.
It’s the new Venezuela.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:29 pmWhen are we allowed to begin drug testing some of our “leaders”? I’m thinking Cheney, Bush and McCain.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:36 pmI have so much respect for you…What was your name again?… Here’s some cab fare…I’ll call you.
DC don’t care. Chavez, Garcia, Mendez, Iglesies, all the same to him and his ilk.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:42 pmPeople are just now questioning the mental health of these freaks? What took so long?
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:46 pmMaybe Cheney cold, steel heart is failing to send enough oxygen to his brain. He sleeps at important meetings, and forgets which country his one of his arch enemy resides.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:57 pmMaybe replacing the batteries isn’t enough any more.
Bush may be on “social” drugs, but Cheney is on pharmaceutical drugs — same result: foggy minds, addled brains.
I can see Iraq, Iran as “a simple slip of the tongue†perhaps a Freudian slip.
But Venezuela, Peru is just dumb.
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:05 pmkaty, this as well, which I posted on the previous string about this “slip of the tongue.” Yes….it’s called a “freudian slip.”
Perhaps Cheney has Peru on mind. Wonder why? Perhaps this may be a reason:
U.S. military base in Peru?
© U.S. Air Force
(LIP-jl) — Since 1999, United States military counter-narcotics and surveillance operations pertaining to the dubbed Plan Colombia have been based out of Manta, Ecuador – Ecuador’s fifth largest city located in Manabi Province.
It now appears that the U.S. will have to look for a new home since Ecuadorian President, and Hugo Chavez ally, Rafael Correa has recently stated he will not renew the contract that keeps the U.S. there until 2009.
According to Argentina’s Pagina/12 newspaper, the current U.S. Manta base may make a move to Peru.
http://www.livinginperu.com/news/3522
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:08 pmYeah right and who wrote Supreme Leader Dick’s speech: Dan Quayle?
November 3rd, 2007 at 1:23 pmWell folks.
He got the continent right and they are at the Northern end of South America and they are not in the Central America and they wear hats. So he allmost got it right.
You folks are much too hard on him.
Besides he has his help put costumes on his dogs. that means he can fudge on the answers for geography, course if he was going to school then we might have to hold him back.
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:49 pmTo Darth they’re all just brown folks, you know, savages…
November 3rd, 2007 at 3:07 pmoh my!!! i almost forgot!
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November 3rd, 2007 at 4:17 pm:-)
A spokeswoman for Cheney, Lea Anne McBride, said later that Cheney’s reference to Peru was “a simple slip of the tongue.â€
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“Slip of the tongue”? Slip of the brain is more like it…
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:02 pmAs I have said before, this was a strange “slip of the tongue†for Darth Cheney . . . Peru doesn’t have any oil.
It could be that his implanted defibrillator kicked in while he was speaking and screwed up his “geography fileâ€.
Comment by tom — November 3, 2007 @ 12:11 pm
Actually, Peru DOES have oil. From the CIA factbook on Peru:
Oil – production:
120,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)
Oil – consumption:
156,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil – exports:
53,040 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil – imports:
NA bbl/day
Oil – proved reserves:
370 million bbl (2006 est.)
Granted, that’s not even close to Venezuela’s production or reserve capacities but it’s still good for more than 8 years of oil for the Great American Empire’s use (based on a “Proved Resources divided by Daily Production” formula, you get 3083.33 days which breaks down to 8 years and a little more than 5 months).
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:05 pmBluestocking, you’re making an awfully big assumption there.
November 3rd, 2007 at 5:08 pmThere’s no proof that Cheney has a brain. Even if he does, it doesn’t mean he uses it in a fashion any different from a wolf, hyena or shark (all three of those species DO have brains, but no one’s ever been able to reason with any of them to prevent an attack).
I’ll just bet the leader of Peru does not hold Cheney in such high regard. Cheney is a user and they know it. All Cheney wants is their cheap labor.
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:45 pmHowz this for a movie plot. Chavez launches a bomb on the USA. We muster troops and send them to fight Chavez. Only the troops get off the plane and find out that it is somewhere in Mongolia in a city named Peru, China.
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:54 pmJust remember one of our VP’s mottos: A slip of the tongue is better than a slip of the gun (maybe).
By the way, the VPs office is slipping. I’m sure they were pressing the President of Peru to apologize to Cheney.
November 4th, 2007 at 12:19 amIt would be nice if this administration held the American people in the same regard as they seem to hold everyone else.
November 4th, 2007 at 12:56 pm