It appears CBS News's Chief Legal Analyst doesn't agree with his colleague Bob Schieffer that former Vice President Dick Cheney is winning the national security debate with Barack Obama.
Quite the contrary, Andrew Cohen thinks Cheney is still living in "the world of September 11, 2001, a world where hijacked planes are screaming toward their targets, chaos reigns, and anything goes."
As a result, Cohen wondered in a Friday posting at his CBSNews.com blog "Court Watch" if Cheney is, "as many people say, just a d**k":
People far smarter than me have tried to psychoanalyze Dick Cheney to understand his motivations, both recent and past. Books have been written on the topic; talking head politicos have strained neck muscles arguing the matter before television cameras. But after watching Cheney’s terror-law speech on Thursday, and after reading his prepared remarks, let me humbly offer a theory that may explain both why he seems so creepy to so many and so right to some. [...]
How do we account for Cheney’s failure or refusal to acknowledge all that we have learned about the world since 2002? How do we explain the worldview he continues to share with his camp followers both in and out of power? Do we chalk it up to him being a stubborn, venal, self-righteous man incapable of admitting his own mistakes? Is he truly what Andrew Sullivan calls a “dead-ender?” Do we hang it on his ideology? On his Western individualism that eschews the need for consensus and compromise? Or is he, as many people say, just a d**k. [sic]
I hereby choose the following explanation. Cheney’s world today is still the world of September 11, 2001, a world where hijacked planes are screaming toward their targets, chaos reigns, and anything goes. It’s a world where civil liberties are endangered, laws are overlooked, and the enemy, for all we know, is truly at the gate. Cheney simply hasn’t moved beyond that mode into the realm of the present. That’s why he cannot accept that the decisions he and others made in the long shadows of that day—water-boarding, indefinite detention, Gitmo, and so on— were short-sighted and even, in some cases, counter-productive.
If wanting our military and intelligence agencies to behave like we're living in a post-9/11 world makes one a d**k, count me proudly amongst the so afflicted.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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Isn't CBS just BS??!
May 22, 2009 - 17:18 ET by winston smithIsn't CBS just BS??!
It's SeeBS.
May 22, 2009 - 17:34 ET by kch50428The more unhinged the Lib-rat 'tards are toward Cheney the more they're showing he's 1000% correct in what he's saying.
My new favorite quote
May 22, 2009 - 20:58 ET by mizflame98First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma
Gandhi
These Terrorism Deniers Congregate in New York ..
May 22, 2009 - 21:40 ET by allanfWashington and Los Angeles. They engage in a perverse group think solid in the belief that there is "no threat". The problem is that those three cities are on the top of the target list.
If another devasting attack happens in one of those cities, will the rest of the nation go "oops to bad for you" before it goes on to conduct business as Americans once did?
allanf
May 22, 2009 - 23:19 ET by NorthCoasterIt's very tempting to suggest that this be allowed to happen.
One thing I have noticed
May 22, 2009 - 17:36 ET by Captain RepusOne thing I have noticed about most of these shrill leftist haters is that they often seem to have a bit of an obsession with the aforementioned male appendage.
Probably a little too much estrogen in their porridge
Where are all the adults in
May 22, 2009 - 17:33 ET by msh1973Where are all the adults in this Country...nothing but cheap bathroom humor and immature language.
They're certainly not the
May 22, 2009 - 17:54 ET by motherbeltThey're certainly not the liberals.
The other day Ron Reagan Junior made his case against Rush Limbaugh by referring to ED...as if that makes anything Rush says suspect.
They have nothing better than genitalia jokes.
Oh, my sides!!! They hurt from laughing!!
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
Count me in as well
May 22, 2009 - 17:40 ET by SnappyCount me in as well Noel,
The idea that somehow Terrorists minds have been changed about us in the last 7.5 years is ludicrous. Exactly what have we learned about the world since 2002 that tells me we are still not a target for terrorists? I am still taking my shoes off in the airport, we still have an empty spot in the New York skyline and another attack was foiled yesterday. If anything I have learned that we are and more than likely will be for quite some time in need to remain vigilant against attacks against our way of life and liberties both at home and abroad.
delete
May 22, 2009 - 17:58 ET by motherbeltI didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
I have never been more proud
May 22, 2009 - 17:50 ET by Spinningplates2I have never been more proud of my support for the Bush administration.
Andrew Cohen thinks Cheney
May 22, 2009 - 17:59 ET by motherbeltAndrew Cohen thinks Cheney is still living in "the world of
September 11, 2001, a world where hijacked planes are screaming toward
their targets, chaos reigns, and anything goes."
HUH?????
Just what world does this idiot think we are living in?
Oh, right....that was sooooo long ago. We are now in the Age of Obama...peace and harmony reign.
No need to worry. The Obama is leading us now, so they have no reason to hate us any more. They really only hated George Bush.
I didn't think it was physically possible, but this both sucks and blows. -Bart Simpson
This guy is paid to be
May 22, 2009 - 17:53 ET by MidAmericaThis guy is paid to be CBS News's Chief Legal Analyst. Isn't CBS embarrased? This kind of juvenile commentary is what should be an example of writing that gets a rookie journalist fired because he hasn't the maturity to work at a major network.
Cohen should be on his
May 22, 2009 - 18:09 ET by bigtimerCohen should be on his knees thanking patriots like Cheney who have helped fight for him and his ilk the freedom to spew his filthy bile.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Yeah, how dare he stand in
May 22, 2009 - 18:18 ET by Chris NormanYeah, how dare he stand in the way of the Obama Express as it roars down the track to weakness and vulnerability?
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
Cheney Is Brave
May 22, 2009 - 18:20 ET by The Smokin FrogCohen speaks like a 'typical liberal'. They have no ability to debate the issues with out demeaning their opponents.
Dick Cheney is behaving like a brave American patriot who will defend his country whether they kill him or not. Cohen can't see this, possibly because he like most on the left, hate the Capitalist Republic that America is.
I wonder what this fool will say after the next major attack?
May 22, 2009 - 19:24 ET by R D HelmThe Jihad has been going on for 1400 years.
If this idiot thinks something has changed that fact in the last 7.5 years, he is sadly mistaken.
-Dave
Yet, most on the
May 22, 2009 - 22:02 ET by Chris NormanYet, most on the left think that terrorism - er - "man caused disasters" - began on 9/12 with Bush's response to 9/11: "Damn that Bush! If only he had ignored 9/11 and not responded - we'd all be at peace!".
The "Mainstream" Media: By liberals. For liberals.
What are you, nuts? NOT
May 23, 2009 - 07:13 ET by ThisnThatWhat are you, nuts? NOT RESPONDED?!? My God, man -- Bush should have offered compensation to the hijackers' families right on the spot, with profuse apologies for making them angry. Then, a year later, he should have traveled to their gravesites and placed memorial wreaths, then visited a mosque and bowed down to kiss the hand of an inman. The next year, on 11 September, he should have invited all the families to Crawford Tx, and given them all 40 acres and a mule anywhere they wanted to in the U.S. Then we'd be at peace -- not a moment sooner. <\disgusting sarc off
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Another example of Liberals attacking...
May 22, 2009 - 19:56 ET by jawebster1Conservatives, not on the issues, where they lose everytime, but on their name. One more reason why Liberals are so despicable! Jim Webster
Calling folks names is what they do.
May 23, 2009 - 07:31 ET by jdlybrandIs there any doubt that some of these people are deranged? All I can say is; his sorry ass was kept safe for seven plus years, and it wasn't because we sat around smoking a peace pipe singing Kumbaya with Bin Laden.
Andrew Cohen should be humble
May 22, 2009 - 20:01 ET by IamTinmanAndrew Cohen should be humble, he's an intellectual midget!
If the capture of the 4 terrorists in New York proved anything, it shows that we are still living in a 9/11 world where thousands of americans could have been killed in an instant, and that we need to be as careful and aware as we were in the weeks following 9/11.
I choose to stand with Noel and Cheney as a D**k!!
If Cheney is a d*ck
May 22, 2009 - 20:01 ET by OxyCon...for rightly thinking that terrorists are plotting to murder innocent Americans, then Andrew Cohen must be a p*ss to believe that we are not in any danger.
CBS's Andrew Cohen calls
May 22, 2009 - 22:02 ET by TN MomCBS's Andrew Cohen calls former VP Cheney a d**k;
Says nothing about current VP Biden!
CBS is biased, immature, and crude!
Cohen
May 23, 2009 - 14:21 ET by blazermaniacAndrew Cohen is the real D**K!
A simple analysis ...
May 22, 2009 - 22:21 ET by metaphorsbwithuThis is what happens when arrested development meets cognitive dissonance.
metaphorsbwithu
The guy who said this is a
May 22, 2009 - 22:38 ET by mattmThe guy who said this is a "chief legal analyst"???? Did he have to go to college to get that job? Maybe he should be called an anal-ist, or a phallist.
"7 years of college down the drain!" - Bluto
Lovin It
May 22, 2009 - 23:53 ET by ghblogCheney taking on Pelosi, Obama and the MSM. He is winning and I am loving it.
http://www.framingthedialogue.com/archives/there-is-something-about-cheney/
There is only one Dick
May 23, 2009 - 04:29 ET by Buck_1CBS, CNN, and NBC are
the worst News Stations in the world.
They have the dong Reporters, who couldn't
make anywhere else. PIGS they are
Don't mess with my Dick!
May 23, 2009 - 06:52 ET by Sissy WillisDon't mess with my Dick!
http://sisu.typepad....
And Bill O'Reilly got raked
May 23, 2009 - 08:14 ET by RR GOPAnd Bill O'Reilly got raked over the calls for calling the witch Helen Thomas a witch and making fun of her. Wiccans and the alledged women's libbers took notice. They were shocked, aghast mind you...only radical Leftists with the best interests of the Proletariat and the downtrodden at heart can talk like that!
Actually, belittling working class people by saying, "Have you ever heard of a plumber making $250,00 a year?" was far worse as it came out of the (big) mouth of a man running for president.
How many of you picked up that these Leftists are truly scummy, smart-ass, narrow minded, hate-filled losers way back in the '60s and '70s? I did and I was a kid back then. Please don't tell me this is a new revelation...
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).
You can't get rid of
May 23, 2009 - 08:25 ET by wiwfYou can't get rid of Cheney, libs! He's here to stay!
The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy
The Child President
May 23, 2009 - 08:45 ET by EddieWalkerVice President Dick Cheney has the teleprompter and his followers terrified because he makes it very clear that there is a significant difference in policy. The Bush administration did everything they could think of to make America safer. And it worked. Now the teleprompter looks childish in his little ways and theories that if we're nice to them, they won't hate us anymore. Bill Clinton proved to the world that by ignoring terrorists and being nice to them just makes them stronger and bolder. Even that dumb ass Colin Powell ruined his name by kissing ass to yassir arafat in an attempt to be nice to the enemy so they would stop killing others. We're now in a waiting game to see how long it will take for the changes that the teleprompter makes will clear the path for the terrorists to come back and attack us again.
Chief Legal Analyst?
May 23, 2009 - 14:36 ET by katainkentclassy.
Hereby choose the following explanation? So much for analysis, too.
You'd have to dig a four foot hole to find the expectations for journalistic integrity.
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