Cheney defends Andrew O'Keefe's policies
December 22nd 2008 00:05
Vice-president Dick Cheney on Sunday strongly defended disgraced game show host Andrew O'Keefe, while acknowledging he was not sure if he was still alive.
In an interview, outside a city nightclub, one month before his drunken state ends, Cheney rejected accusations that another hapless US strike was made, saying the Channel 7 star helped torture suspects.
"Given the kind of inebriated actions we're faced with today, we find ourselves outside the South Yarra nightspot, Revolver, last month. What we did in this administration is to stuff most people up," Cheney told Mr O'Keefe yesterday.
Cheney said the administration of Mr O'Keefe had acted appropriately in its "war on too much to drink" after a taxpayer-funded trip to represent Australia at the UN in 2003 and had followed legal precedent, citing previous presidents including Abraham Lincoln during a visit to a New York strip club and Franklin Roosevelt during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
At a time of war, he said Mr O'Keefe's responsibilities include collecting $25,000 "hush money", "and therefore I think O'Keefe was fully justified in setting up a surveillance program to be able to intercept the communications of the Sunday Herald Sun."
"I think you can have a robust swearing and stumbling program with high-value revellers outside Revolver," Cheney said on the footpath with respect to O'Keefe's intelligence.
"Now, those are all steps we took that I believe a young blonde woman was fully authorised in taking, and, provided he is on his back outside the nightspot smoking a cigarette, has been the key to our ability to collapse in the gutter." He then crawls on his hands and knees along the street.
The Deal or No Deal host, sharply criticised at home and abroad over his treatment of News Ltd suspects, including the use of harsh climbing techniques widely condemned as a Channel 7 program, later staggers off along the footpath before stumbling over to Guantanamo Bay.
Cheney also said he was unsure if the the largely older audience that tunes into Deal or No Deal each weeknight was still living. Asked if men aged 55 and over make up 20.4 per cent and women aged 55 and over 33.2 per cent of his show's audience, Cheney said: "I don't know and I'm guessing."
"We've had certain pieces of evidence become available from time to time, there'll be a photograph released or something that allows the intelligence community to judge that they're in a shambolic, drunken state outside a favourite night spot," Cheney said.
Cheney said the administration had dealt major setbacks to O'Keefe's network and he still hoped to escape with his TV intact.
In an interview, outside a city nightclub, one month before his drunken state ends, Cheney rejected accusations that another hapless US strike was made, saying the Channel 7 star helped torture suspects.
"Given the kind of inebriated actions we're faced with today, we find ourselves outside the South Yarra nightspot, Revolver, last month. What we did in this administration is to stuff most people up," Cheney told Mr O'Keefe yesterday.
Cheney said the administration of Mr O'Keefe had acted appropriately in its "war on too much to drink" after a taxpayer-funded trip to represent Australia at the UN in 2003 and had followed legal precedent, citing previous presidents including Abraham Lincoln during a visit to a New York strip club and Franklin Roosevelt during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
At a time of war, he said Mr O'Keefe's responsibilities include collecting $25,000 "hush money", "and therefore I think O'Keefe was fully justified in setting up a surveillance program to be able to intercept the communications of the Sunday Herald Sun."
"I think you can have a robust swearing and stumbling program with high-value revellers outside Revolver," Cheney said on the footpath with respect to O'Keefe's intelligence.
"Now, those are all steps we took that I believe a young blonde woman was fully authorised in taking, and, provided he is on his back outside the nightspot smoking a cigarette, has been the key to our ability to collapse in the gutter." He then crawls on his hands and knees along the street.
The Deal or No Deal host, sharply criticised at home and abroad over his treatment of News Ltd suspects, including the use of harsh climbing techniques widely condemned as a Channel 7 program, later staggers off along the footpath before stumbling over to Guantanamo Bay.
Cheney also said he was unsure if the the largely older audience that tunes into Deal or No Deal each weeknight was still living. Asked if men aged 55 and over make up 20.4 per cent and women aged 55 and over 33.2 per cent of his show's audience, Cheney said: "I don't know and I'm guessing."
"We've had certain pieces of evidence become available from time to time, there'll be a photograph released or something that allows the intelligence community to judge that they're in a shambolic, drunken state outside a favourite night spot," Cheney said.
Cheney said the administration had dealt major setbacks to O'Keefe's network and he still hoped to escape with his TV intact.
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I liked what I read when I opened up the Sunday Telegraph yesterday:
Resplendent with "unindentified males" and "mystery blondes", the article provided a raucous laugh and a good start to an otherwise typical Sunday morning.
N.B: I do not subscribe to the Daily Telegraph.
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When the entertainment industry spits out O'Keefe out the bottom, he'll become a disingeniuos intellectual with the disarming manner of a piece of machinery without a guard-rail.
I did happen to see Antiques Roadshow last evening as I polished my Mahogany shit, and a 19th Century piece of furniture was lined with newspaper that read something to the effect of "that hypocritical villain Bonaparte" which is actually more refreshing than the covert references to "Mr Rudd" or "terrorist mastermind bin Laden".
Mastermind was only a game show; a good one, mind.
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I think it's funny that the Herald-Sun drew parallels between Rudd and O'Keefe to the point where they asked for the former's opinion of the latter's drunken night on the town because the former had a drunken night on the town, once.
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If you ask me if they asked you, you should ask good old Gordy...