Vice-Presidential Downtime

The Smoking Gun has published Dick Cheney’s “Vice Presidential Downtime Requirements”, which outline how his hotel room suites ought to be set up.

Among such items as “Temperature set to 68 degrees”, “All lights turned on”, and the one item I always demand, “Private Bathroom”, is one particularly revealing instruction: “All Televisions tuned to FOX News”.

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that Dick Cheney watches Fox News, but for some reason I thought that in spite of being ideological mirrors of each other, as the vice-president he would actually want to get real news.

The Bush administration spoon-feeds propaganda pablum to Fox News and Fox News turns around and feeds it right back to them.

This is remarkably similar to the formerly widespread practice of feeding cattle processed parts of other cattle. The result was mad cow disease.

Suddenly, it’s all starting to make sense.