Cheney Roasted at Gridiron Club Dinner

[kskiska]

President Bush headlined the annual Gridiron Club political press roast Saturday night, but Vice President Dick Cheney was the main target of the humor.

Cheney's well-publicized Texas hunting accident last month, drew ridicule from the press corps and all the speakers, including the president.

Bush pointed out that the vice president's full name is Richard B. Cheney.

"B. stands for bulls eye," Bush said to laughter from the hundreds of reporters and officials from the administration and Congress. The press, Bush joked, blew the matter way out of proportion: "Good Lord, you'd thought he shot somebody or something."

Cheney, who sat at the head table, laughed along with most of the jokes.

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[JI7]

1. i said when the news came out he shot someone

that they would joke about it themselves and act like it was nothing.

did they joke and laugh about soldiers dying this time ?

[Whoa_Nelly]

29. And, wasn't it so cute when * pretended to look for WMD

under chairs and tables at that one fundraiser a while back. :sarcasm:

[saigon68]

30. Too bad they didn't feed the fucker a big fatty prime rib dinner

He could have had a heart attack right there on the stage.

[cliss]

2. Oh, like I really believe Cheney

will sit there and let Bush make fun of him. Bush....the Court Jester...Clown.

Cheney, on the other hand, is the brains behind the idiot King. He will not take kindly to being made fun of. I bet he's hatching a plot....

[babylonsister]

3. Gridiron Club - try this!

http://www.nndb.com/org/520/000052364/

[Earth_First]

28. No way that Helen Thomas was on the guest-list... n/t

[file83]

4. I wonder if Harry Whittington thought it was funny.

:shrug:

[elvisbear]

5. Harry was too busy cutting Cheny's steak and filling his water glass.

[laheina]

7. He's prolly just scared that they're going to finish him off. nt

[BlueManDude]

6. there's nothing funny about any of this

this is your typical horseshit dc even where bush delivers some "self-deprecating" humor and the collected douchbags of the beltway press corps fawn all over the place telling us what a good guy he really is .

a big fucking circle jerk.

[NYC]

8. Shooting a man in the face is never funny.

I agree with you.

[fishwax]

11. no shit

the veep shot a guy :rofl:
few thousand soldiers died :rofl:
greeted as liberators :rofl:
and get a load of those collateral casualties :rofl:
someone forgot to order flowers, b/c I was told our soldiers would be greeted with rose petals :rofl:

fuck them and their "humor." :grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr:

[tabasco]

27. Haha!! Bush had 'em rolling in the aisles with the WMD jokes!!

Where are those darn WMDs? What!? Tens of thousands dead because we launched a war without justification?! Stop! Your killing me!

Goddamn corporate media whores should hang with the rest of the cabal.

[Bigmack]

22. Yes... What you said!

How anybody in this government(?) can laugh with people dying daily because of this asshole's evil and arrogance is beyond me.... and I pride myself on having a dark sense of humor.

The press corps going along with it is disgusting.

[NoodleyAppendage]

9. Roasted Cheney...mostly a fatty meat. Lots of gristle and little taste.

Cheney's black heart would be like fugu. It would have to be prepared carefully; otherwise, the poison would kill you.

J

[0007]

15. .......you mean like eating a skunk?

[fishwax]

10. I can see how it'd be easy to roast cheney, but i can't see how it'd be

funny :grr:

[Dem2theMax]

12. Roasted? I hope they served him hot, with garlic sauce.

:evilgrin:

[Auntie Bush]

31. Nothing could make him seem good. He's a tough old bastard! nt

[Dem2theMax]

32. LOL. Actually, the garlic sauce was chosen because

you need garlic when you are in the presence of a vampire. :evilgrin:

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

13. "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere. "

"Nope, no weapons over there."

(Laughter and applause.)

"Maybe under here."

(Laughter.)

- Bush's 2004 Radio & TV Correspondents Speech



That guy. Whatta kidder.


:eyes:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

14. Roasted? Was he also "peppered"?

[Danmel]

16. Touche!

What a self satisfied bunch of creeps. Everything is a joke to them but their money.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

18. No kidding.

But it's fitting that a chickenhawk like Cheney got "roasted."

[warrior1]

17. Didn't darth

say that this was the worst day of his life? And yet yesterday he's laughing about it.

So he didn't really mean this. I just hope Harry's happy for defending him. He could have said yes Cheney had be drinking and then mistake him for a six foot quail.

[Ilsa]

19. This is W's* true calling.

He loves poking "fun" at others, whether they are at the top of the heap or scrambling to get by at the bottom. He's really good at "mean". He doesn't even flub it up like he doesn't policy speeches. This comes naturally to him.

[DeepModem Mom]

20. You are so right, Ilsa. nt

[Frank Cannon]

21. I agree. Maybe he can be an insult comic...

when he gets kicked out of office, following in the tradition of Don Rickles and Triumph the Insult Comedy Dog, rather than try to be a dignified "ex-President" like Carter or Clinton.

I actually think that he would do quite well at that. His humor is always terribly mean-spirited, and the Republicans just LOVE that. He'd pack them in in Vegas.

[wordpix2]

34. I agree, too. He should be a stand-up comic, whoops, he IS one!

[The_Casual_Observer]

23. LOve to see cheney behind a grid iron.

[RagingInMiami]

24. It's disgusting how the Bush, Cheney and the Washington media are so cozy

[fiveleafclover]

25. "Lynne, I think you're doing a heck of a job..."

I can't believe he said that.

---
Bush said that while pundits speculate about whether Cheney or White House political adviser Karl Rove run the government, it's another person who actually pulls the strings. Cheney, Bush said, tells him what to do but Cheney's wife, Lynne, tells the vice president what to do.

"Lynne, I think you're doing a heck of a job. Although I have to say you dropped the ball big time on that Dubai deal," he said, in a joke about the controversial ports deal.
---

If you think about it, he's actually calling himself a fuck-up. For once, I can say I wholeheartedly agree with him.

[daleo]

26. Shooting people is hilarious

I wonder if Whittington still thinks he did the right thing, by apologizing for being Cheney's victim?

[Theres-a]

33. Shrub thinks it's funny.

"By the way, when Dick first heard my approval rating was 38 percent, he said, 'What's your secret?'," joked Bush

[wordpix2]

35. yeah, it's funny when it's no longer in the news

[HuffleClaw]

36. roasted?

'secret's in the sauce!'