Cheney's hotel comforts:68 degrees, Diet Sprite (and TV tuned to Fox News)

[onehandle]

Leaked papers reportedly list vice president's room requirements

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- When he travels, Vice President Dick Cheney wants his hotel suites at 68 degrees, a document published Thursday by "The Smoking Gun" Web site stipulates.

He also wants fresh-brewed, decaffeinated coffee, four to six bottles of water and four cans of caffeine-free Diet Sprite, according to the list of requests, which is titled "Vice Presidential Downtime Requirements."

"The requirements are consistent with the guidelines relayed by the advance office to the volunteers to the field," a spokesperson with the vice president's office told CNN.

He also asks that the TV be tuned to Fox News, "The Smoking Gun" reported. And he likes the suite equipped with extra lamps, with all the lights turned on, as well as copies of the local newspaper, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and USA Today.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/23/cheney.hotel/index.html



http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0322061cheney1.html

[Webster Green]

1. The Big Dick only watches Faux Snooze........that's great!

He catapaults the propaganda to Faux, then watches their crap to re-enforce his delusions.

What a circle-jerk those morans have going on.:eyes:

[Peter Frank]

37. Well said... n/t

[Vogon_Glory]

49. Lon Cheney Wants To Make Sure That Fox News Is

The reason that Veep Dick "Lon" Cheney has all the sets tuned to Fox News is that he wants to make sure that the Republican Party's for-profit propaganda organ is on track and parroting current Republican Party propaganda and talking points.

[hexola]

2. Who cares!!! This is like the 15th time this has been posted!!

Guys - there is so much more real dirt out there...

This is nothing...not even remotely outrageous!!! - mostly understandable...

[saigon68]

42. At least NO HOOKER with his heart condition

It is interesting tho

The BIG DICK would get worked up if he watched MSNBC news

[flordehinojos]

3. I WONDER WHAT HAPPENS IF THE ROOM GOES UP TO 69DEGREES OR DOWN TO 67?

i wonder what happens if the room has one of those new thermostats that if they are set for 68 can go up to 69 or down to 67? will he melt down, will all the wiring from his pacemakers catch on fire? does he want to make sure that if he dies in the night of cardiac arrest his body will not smell?

[hexola]

4. That is SO FUNNY...

God you are clever...

[flordehinojos]

7. O:-)

:toast:

[MrMonk]

5. Doesn't even raise a goose-bump.

Most decent business hotels routinely provide everything but the extra lamps, extra papers, free drinks and toady. And you can have all of those for the asking if you tip really, really well.

[hexola]

6. Seriously - havent any of you ever left the house!!!

This is sooooo nothing...

[onehandle]

8. It's the pre-tuning to Fox News that is important to me.

Not surprising, of course, but this is the White House putting it on paper.

Documentation of the Republican Party's relationship with Fox News. Or is this coziness ok with everyone?

[MrMonk]

10. Seeing it in print doesn't even ruffle my feathers.

It's an open secret that FOX and the White House are owned by the same people.

[hexola]

13. Do you REALLY think Cheney has even ever seen this...?

I doubt he has ever seen it...And I dont belive for one minute that he sat there and made this list...

Sounds like the work of brown-nosing ass kissers...

[onehandle]

22. Are you kidding? These are elitists we're talking about.

To quote Jon Stewart just now, "Little Lord Fauntleroy can't use a remote".

He may have not listed it in one session, but these Are his requirements.

[hexola]

23. Elitist? - You wouldn't know it by reading this...

Where is the "elitism"???

[onehandle]

24. You sure are Hell bent on defending Cheney in this thread.

Do you have your TVs pre-tuned at Hotels?

Does the average Freeper fax a list like this ahead when they are journeying from their trailer to a Motel 6?

[hexola]

26. What is there to defend...? The man stays at a hotel...

What exactly is the big fucking deal about this...?

Your average freeper? - who knows, maybe..depending on the hotel.

So some ass-kisser added the Fox thing...who cares?...what do you think that says?

Does the average Freeper fax a list like this ahead when they are journeying from their trailer to a Motel 6?

...it sounds like YOU are the elitist!

[onehandle]

31. Ok, ok. I got it.

We're not allowed to criticize or characterize Cheney or Freepers even though they would destroy us if they could.

Who else is your most bestest friend so I can be oh so careful not to offend?

[hexola]

34. I blast them all daily - but only when you really have a "smoking gun"

And again this is just nothing...I'm not defending Cheney because there is nothing to defend.

What am I defending? Sprite? Room temperature? 4 bottles of water?

Wow you really got 'em!

This story was posted at least 10 times here today - good for one round of jokes, but this is just the weakest lamest attempt to sinisterize.

We have so much on Cheney anyway...going after this stupid stuff tarnishes the good stuff...

[kestrel91316]

32. Elitist = too lazy to turn his own TV and lights on.

He probably has a special attendant to wipe his ass, too.

[Gregorian]

17. Fox my ass! He's watchin' Abu Ghraib videos.

[rooboy]

9. 3 packs of birdshot, 2 dozen AAA Duracell batteries.... n/t

[HuffleClaw]

11. hmmmmmm i'm dubious

'diet caffeine free sprite' ?

'tv to fox news' ?

suuuuure, a bit too good to be true.

[MisterP]

12. Lovecraft's "Cool Air" comes to mind, with the ice and all

[Rex]

14. The undead like it cool, matches their body temperature.

"The requirements are consistent with the guidelines relayed by the advance office to the volunteers to the field," a spokesperson with the vice president's office told CNN.

Oh shut the fuck up! They make it sound so innocent...'volunteers', snarf! More like the Major Domo issues orders of what the king wants to a royal lackey to the RW ditto-monkeys.

[hexola]

15. So innocent? What exactly do you think they are guilty of here?

I just dont see what the big fuss is about?

[area51]

36. "The undead like it cool"

LOL.

[Gregorian]

16. 68 degrees is the official Nixon temperature.

Even I remember that from my hazy past. :)

Lights on is just his way of keeping big oil in money. He can't be scared of the dark. Not unless he has lights on in his casket.

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. The only thing even slightly funny about this is the Perrier

:rofl:

Oui oui, Fifi, goat cheese.

[hexola]

19. Sold in every convience and grocery store in America...

You have to go way out of your way to think something is wrong here...

Move along now...nothing to see here...

Some of you have an odd idea of what opulence is all about...

[alcibiades_mystery]

43. Thanks for the detail

Why you felt the need to respond to my post, I do not know.

Perhaps you should move along now. You're being a bit obsessive about this thread.

[hexola]

44. Im obsessive? - This was posted 10 times...!!! (nt)

[alcibiades_mystery]

46. Not by me

:shrug:

[Botany]

20. This is Real

I called the # thinking it has to be a joke.

"V.P. advance, this Dan" :rofl:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

21. What??!!

No M&Ms with all the brown ones removed?

What an amateur. I have seen hotel riders from junkie rock stars that asked for more than that.

[Oldtimeralso]

30. M&Ms

This administration has banned M&Ms too many Ws, Es, & 3s.

[qanda]

25. Isn't Sprite always caffeine free?

[LeighAnn]

38. If not, I'd buy cases of the caffeinated version

That's the only thing that stops me from drinking it, lack of caffeine.

[SeattleVet]

27. Oooohhhhh...somebody screwed up and is going to get their ass fired!

Somehow they specified the New York Times instead of the Washington Times. Can't have Lord Cheney exposed to actual NEWS or anything like that. If he isolates himself from reality with Faux News only - you can be damn sure he wants to be reading the fawning coverage in the Washington Times.

[JudyM]

28. "... in a connecting room to the parlor?" How many rooms in the suite?

What else would the bedroom connect to? Or is this not the list for his sleeping quarters, just for a place to take a nap?

[progressivebydesign]

29. and a copy of Hustler magazine. n/t

[Beausoir]

33. Where are the loaded guns and scotch/prune juice riders?

What a pussy this guy is.

[daleo]

35. He's afraid of the dark

"And he likes the suite equipped with extra lamps, with all the lights turned on..."

Imagine the tens of thousands of ghosts that must haunt him in the dark.

[alphafemale]

39. Why is the line reguarding Mrs. Cheney traveling with him crossed out?

hmmm?

:evilgrin:

[Onceuponalife]

40. It was crossed out because she wasn't with him on the trip

so it didn't apply. Seriously, this is no big deal at all. He's the VP. Nothing on that list is unreasonable for a vice head of state. Bill Press was on the radio today gleefully going over the list as if cans of Sprite were some kind of outrageous demand. This is such a non-story. Like someone said before there is SO much other outrages in the shrub admin to waste time on this silliness. I'm waiting for someone to utter the inevitable......"listgate"!

[Zech Marquis]

41. kind of incomplete if you think about it

what about the bottles of blood, oil barrel, and his Halliburton pillow? :evilgrin:

[Ron Mexico]

45. What a fucking asshole

If I had an ally in the media as strong as Fox is to Cheney, the last thing I'd do is put it on paper like that. Fox does so many favors for Cheney that you'd think he could return one by picking up a fucking remote and pushing a fucking button instead of putting it on paper for the world to see like that.

On the other hand, we now have our 147,936th piece of evidence regarding how "fair and balanced" Fox is.

[noonwitch]

47. Does he have a pacemaker? He shouldn't be around a microwave

I thought microwaves messed with pacemakers and other heart equipment.

[TheCowsCameHome]

48. 68 degrees would be good as his body temperature....

[0007]

50. What are junior's requirements?

[classysassy]

51. "Lurch and Uncle Festus at the LaPaloma in Tucson"

why were those two clowns here in Tucson,a favor for im Click and Lutes rethug wife?,Phoenix is Kyl's home town.