Monday, August 31, 2009

Understatement of the Day: Robert Gibbs on Dick Cheney

By Michael J.W. Stickings

Responding today to Cheney's self-aggrandizing (pro-torture) attacks on Obama on Fox News yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said this:

I'm not entirely sure that Dick Cheney's predictions on foreign policy have borne a whole lot of fruit over the last eight years in a way that have been either positive or, to the best of my recollection, very correct.

Not entirely sure? Haven't borne a whole lot of fruit? Way to be diplomatic, Mr. Press Secretary. Shall we read between the lines? (At least you noted, if not with nearly enough conviction, that Cheney had the facts "wrong.")

Cheney has been anything but positive, and certainly not correct, the fruit has been poisonous. And, yes, I'm entirely sure of that.

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