{"id":124,"date":"2004-06-28T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/28\/non-partisan-props\/"},"modified":"2007-05-05T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T16:54:11","slug":"non-partisan-props","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/28\/non-partisan-props\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-partisan props"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start by saying that, as a general rule, Dick Cheney freaks me out. I don&#8217;t like him, and I think he&#8217;s one of the main people with his hand in the Bush puppethead.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, I want to say &#8220;you go!&#8221; to Dick for his refreshing stand on profanity. Senator Patrick Leahy was giving him a hard time about his Halliburton connections, and eventually Dick had it and told him to go fuck himself. What&#8217;s refreshing about this is that when the incident began to get the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/26\/politics\/campaign\/26cheney.html\">stupid, undue media attention<\/a> that it did, Cheney basically shrugged. Yes, he said, I did swear at him. He had it coming, and I felt better after I did it.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that how we all feel after swearing at someone? It really bugs me when the pundits get all sanctimonious and judge public figures based on a standard that nobody else is held to. (The incident did not take place during a Senate session, I should point out. I might feel differently if it had occurred in that context, where rules of decorum are taken seriously. It was just two guys talking.)<\/p>\n<p>This is the only time I can remember feeling anything positive about Cheney. And now, to counterbalance the warm fuzzy above, here&#8217;s a little picture I&#8217;ve been saving for the right moment:<\/p>\n<p><center><lj-cut text=\"click here\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/pix\/cheney.jpg\" \/><\/lj-cut> <\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me start by saying that, as a general rule, Dick Cheney freaks me out. I don&#8217;t like him, and I think he&#8217;s one of the main people with his hand in the Bush puppethead. Nonetheless, I want to say &#8220;you go!&#8221; to Dick for his refreshing stand on profanity. Senator Patrick Leahy was giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}