I think he just told Dick to "fuck off"

Speaking for most Americans, who would prefer that Dick Cheney retire to the worm hole he crawled out of sometime during the summer of 2000, Robert Gibbs had this to say about the former VP's latest teevee appearance with a CNmoroN.

In a caustic reply to criticism of Obama administration national security and economic policy from Vice President Dick Cheney, the White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs likened Mr. Cheney to the king of right-wing radio and said that it would be the “best possible outcome” for Americans to ignore the former vice president’s advice on the economy.

“I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy so they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal,” Mr. Gibbs told reporters, when asked to respond to Mr. Cheney’s critiques over the weekend.

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In his first television interview since leaving office, Mr. Cheney criticized Mr. Obama’s decision to close down the military prison at Guantanamo Bay. Mr. Cheney told CNN that Bush administration counterterrorism policies were “absolutely essential” to prevent a repeat of the Sept. 11 attacks.

“President Obama campaigned against it all across the country,” Mr. Cheney said. “And now, he is making some choices that in my mind will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack.”

Mr. Gibbs took umbrage during the press briefing on Monday. “The president has made quite clear that keeping the American people safe and secure is the most serious job that he has each and every day,” he said.

He refused to back down from the Rush Limbaugh line, after a reporter asked him whether he meant to sound so sarcastic given that he was talking about a former vice president. Acknowledging “sometimes I ask forgiveness, rather than for permission,” Mr. Gibbs said, “I hope my sarcasm didn’t mask he seriousness of my answer. For seven-plus years, the very perpetrators that the vice president says he’s concerned about weren’t brought to justice.”

But, as John King asks, quoting a Human Events Weekly headline, "Is the president trying to brazenly deceive the American people?"



Not so enquiring minds would very much like to know.