Of all of the political theatre over the last four weeks perhaps none touched me as much as the question that Brit Hume asked Cheney in his exclusive Fox interview after Cheney shot his friend in the face. Brit asked him this; "Did you get the bird?" Cheney's reaction, stunned silence, then "I don't know."
This whole episode speaks volumes to me. About how completely disconnected from reality a man like Brit Hume is. We stigmatize societal behaviors that we don't like; drunkeness, sexual harrasment. We should spend more time stigmatizing gun crazy psychosis like this. Did you get the bird? Are you freaking nuts?
And then there is the fact that this interview was on Fox. We might as well admit now that Fox is just a wing of the Republican party. Never before has one party had an entire news outlet all to itself. But now the Republicans do and they swing and swing with it. They called the 2000 election for God's sakes. No wonder the vice-president went their for a friendly interview. And how friendly it was. Did you get the bird? And no wonder Bush is not fearing his 37% poll numbers. With a whole news channel dedicated to spinning the news his way.
Of course, Bush needs to realize that with his sinking poll numbers, the Fox networks numbers are dropping as well. That's the reason why news networks are supposed to be balanced! Hello!
Anyway, I love that. Did you get the bird. Love it.
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