"Send us your entry for the most idiotic, dishonest or ... ridiculously wrong quote from ... Cheney"

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Talking Points Memo:

This so deserves a contest. Because there are so many possibilities.



Send us your entry for the most idiotic, dishonest or just plain ridiculously wrong quote from our vice president, Dick Cheney. You can go all the way back to January 2001.

There's definitely a good amount of low hanging fruit. So on those really glaring examples we all know about it, we'll go with the first reader who sends them in. But there are just so many more. We'll take the entries and put them together in a top ten list. The top three win a prized TPM mug for the contestant.

As for judging rules, we'll grade them not only on inherent mumbojumbo and/or the delusional quality of the quote, but also on how well known the quote is. So if it's one of the two or three Cheney whoppers that easily comes off everyone's lips, that might not get as high as a score as another that's a bit more off the beaten path. Anyway, you get the idea. Every quote must have a verifiable source to authenticate it -- link to a transcript, an article in a reputable news outlet, etc. To qualify, you must send in the link to verify the quote.

So, you got the rules. Now, let's do it. Send your entry to the comments email address over there on the upper right. And include the subject heading "Cheney Lyin' Fool Sweepstakes." Multiple entries are okay; but only one quote per email. http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

-- Josh Marshall

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/012665.php

For those of you that enjoy a challenge, get to it. :)

Post them here too, please.

[charlie and algernon]

1. "Go fuck yourself."

can't beat saying that to a congressman.

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2. Send it in with a link. At the top right of Talking Points Memo where it

says "comment" http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/.

[cloudbase]

3. The Iraqi insurgency

is in its final throes.

links all over the bloody web, unless the tubes are clogged today.