This is how Dick Cheney rolls

[Mister Bushice]

Televisions?

He can't see well enough to tell the difference between an old man and a little bird. how many TVs does he need to tell him what he wants to hear?

[Mikey]

"I just want to make sure I don't miss Neil Cavuto. That boy is like the son I never had."

- Dick Cheney

[mothster]

he needs to add to his list of demands that the bedside radio must be tuned to the am station that carries rush bimbo.......

and the latest 'ducks unlimited' and nra flyers.......

[ChargerMike]

WASHINGTON (March 27) - While on the presidential trail in 2004, Sen. John Kerry earned a reputation as an elitist. But is he choosier than Vice President Dick Cheney?

According to documents unveiled by an investigative Web site, the answer seems to be a simple yes. The Massachusetts Democrat and his wife, Theresa Heinz Kerry, adore Caesar salads and stone crab, but John Kerry doesn't want anything to do with celery or Evian bottled water.

And even though his wife is an heir to Heinz food company fortune, the travel rider reveals that Kerry didn't want anything to do with tomatoes.

The duo's four pages of travel and hotel needs — posted Monday by The Smoking Gun following last week's posting of a relatively meager travel rider for the Vice President — list dozens of meal preferences and room specifications.

Like most other celebrities and politicians, the Kerrys have specific desires — some standard, some quirky.

The Kerrys' list includes vitamin waters and peanut butter (Skippy creamy) on the bus and in the hotel, boost "weight maintenance" drinks, a recumbent bicycle (a note from Kerry's scheduling director reads: Kerry "would prefer a recumbent bike these days" rather than an upright stationary bicycle), milano cookies, down pillows, and television with "ability to order movies in-suite"



But don't present John Kerry with tomato-based anything, foodstuffs containing celery, heavy sauces or Evian bottled water (he prefers Poland Spring).

"I know this may seem trivial, but these things make (Kerry) very happy," chief scheduler Alyssa Mastromonaco wrote.

The Smoking Gun has obtained and published some 200 concert riders — the lists of backstage dressing-room must-haves by stars from Jimmy Buffett to Britney Spears. Last week, the site published Cheney's rider, with needs including: all television sets tuned to Fox News, all lights on, and the thermostat set to 68 degrees.


Cheney, 65 with a history of heart disease, plays it safe on beverages and asks for decaf coffee — brewed before his arrival — plus lots of bottled water and four cans of Diet Sprite.

Despite the detailed lists of beverage preferences by the Capital Hill bigs unveiled this week, neither Cheney nor Kerry's demands match up to the demands of divas like Jennifer Lopez, who requires a completely white-draped room and yellow roses with red tips.

However, J.Lo and the senator from Massachusetts do share something: Neither can stomach tomatoes.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0327061kerry1.html

[Ang]

With J Lo and the like, I can see it. Their business is totally commercial. Same with professional sports folks. We have a friend who works for the NFL and she has told us a few stories about contracts she has seen that demand fresh flowers in the limos and outrageous demands for personal luxury and extravagance. But that's all showbiz. Our politicians are supposedly public servants, and while I wouldn't want them to travel with a backpack and their own blankets...and expect them to be as comfortable as possible, I don't expect them to request rock star accommodations. And it seems like Cheney is what he sells himself as...a pretty regular guy.

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

And it seems like Cheney is what he sells himself as...a pretty regular guy.

That was the point of the article. To sell that illusion to you.

A processed and pumped out shiny turd of a PR sales pitch.
Dick Cheney? Regular guy?

Doesn't anyone in your country engage in critical analysis anymore?

[Ang]

I guess if you were really paying attention, you would see that after years of Cheney being in the public eye...he is just that. The guy is so boring that the hotel item just fits. He's been around for awhile, in case you haven't noticed, with plenty of news stories about how boring and unpretentious that he is for a person in a position of power.

That's what happens when you pay attention. Then again you could just listen to the voices in your head. I'm sure they are much more entertaining.

[BSmack]

And it seems like Cheney is what he sells himself as...a pretty regular guy.

That was the point of the article. To sell that illusion to you.

A processed and pumped out shiny turd of a PR sales pitch.
Dick Cheney? Regular guy? Doesn't anyone in your country engage in critical analysis anymore?

If you're looking for critical analysis from Ang, you came to the wrong place. She's here to pull on your heartstrings. Have you no HEART Marty?

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

She's here to pull on your heartstrings.

You mean like misty images of the Trade Towers, Ma and Pa standing in front of the homestead with their yellow ribbon flapping in the gentle summer breeze, country music concerts that open with the national anthem sung by an adorable child orphaned by 9/11,
crappy watercolour paintings depicting angels with their arms around ghostly images of weeping firefighters, clothesline-free deed restricted communities gathering for bake sales offering cupcakes with red, white and blue frosting in Bushice-ville...

That kind of thing?

[BSmack]

She's here to pull on your heartstrings.

You mean like misty images of the Trade Towers, Ma and Pa standing in front of the homestead with their yellow ribbon flapping in the gentle summer breeze, country music concerts that open with the national anthem sung by an adorable child orphaned by 9/11,
crappy watercolour paintings depicting angels with their arms around ghostly images of weeping firefighters, clothesline-free deed restricted communities gathering for bake sales offering cupcakes with red, white and blue frosting in Bushice-ville...

That kind of thing?

Mix in some good old fashioned stories about virtue and self reliance and you're there. I know Big O has already popped wood just thinking about it.

[Terry in Crapchester]

WASHINGTON (March 27) - While on the presidential trail in 2004, Sen. John Kerry earned a reputation as an elitist. But is he choosier than Vice President Dick Cheney?

According to documents unveiled by an investigative Web site, the answer seems to be a simple yes. The Massachusetts Democrat and his wife, Theresa Heinz Kerry, adore Caesar salads and stone crab, but John Kerry doesn't want anything to do with celery or Evian bottled water.

And even though his wife is an heir to Heinz food company fortune, the travel rider reveals that Kerry didn't want anything to do with tomatoes.

The duo's four pages of travel and hotel needs — posted Monday by The Smoking Gun following last week's posting of a relatively meager travel rider for the Vice President — list dozens of meal preferences and room specifications.

Like most other celebrities and politicians, the Kerrys have specific desires — some standard, some quirky.

The Kerrys' list includes vitamin waters and peanut butter (Skippy creamy) on the bus and in the hotel, boost "weight maintenance" drinks, a recumbent bicycle (a note from Kerry's scheduling director reads: Kerry "would prefer a recumbent bike these days" rather than an upright stationary bicycle), milano cookies, down pillows, and television with "ability to order movies in-suite"



But don't present John Kerry with tomato-based anything, foodstuffs containing celery, heavy sauces or Evian bottled water (he prefers Poland Spring).

"I know this may seem trivial, but these things make (Kerry) very happy," chief scheduler Alyssa Mastromonaco wrote.

The Smoking Gun has obtained and published some 200 concert riders — the lists of backstage dressing-room must-haves by stars from Jimmy Buffett to Britney Spears. Last week, the site published Cheney's rider, with needs including: all television sets tuned to Fox News, all lights on, and the thermostat set to 68 degrees.


Cheney, 65 with a history of heart disease, plays it safe on beverages and asks for decaf coffee — brewed before his arrival — plus lots of bottled water and four cans of Diet Sprite.

Despite the detailed lists of beverage preferences by the Capital Hill bigs unveiled this week, neither Cheney nor Kerry's demands match up to the demands of divas like Jennifer Lopez, who requires a completely white-draped room and yellow roses with red tips.

However, J.Lo and the senator from Massachusetts do share something: Neither can stomach tomatoes.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0327061kerry1.html

So politicians, regardless of political stripe, are less demanding than overpaid entertainment divas?

File that one under, "Sincerely, Marcus Allen."

[Ang]

Exactly that! Good ole boy who doesn't like much of the conveniences of life...only needs a few things in his hotel room because he loves the outdoors and hunting, oops unless a friend's face happens to be in the way.

You got it! That's the drill. And there are birds singing in the background, seriously happy to know they are in no danger.

:)