Dick Cheney channelling Dr. Strangelove...

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JANUARY 21, 2009 4:05PM

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31542_24Obama-Inauguration_sff drstrangelove1

...or Why I No Longer Fear the Bush Administration

Either Brian Williams or Tom Brokaw, I can't remember which, made an uncharacteristically brilliant observation yesterday. During the inauguration ceremonies, one of them said that Dick Cheney was looking a little like Dr. Strangelove. Wow, now that's some reporting. I think the unspoken comparison is more one of ideology than physical appearance.

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I think the whole Bush govt. was Dr. Strangelovish, not to mention surreal.

emma peel

January 21, 2009 04:46 PM

Yikes!! Uncanny resemblance in so many ways.

grif -

January 21, 2009 04:54 PM

No, Mr. Potter from It's a Wonderful Life.
It's as if they are the same man, in so many ways.

Melinda Meanders

January 21, 2009 05:10 PM

I thought he was a super villian from a Bond film. The cane looked especially dangerous.

cheshyre grin

January 21, 2009 05:19 PM

When I saw him wheelin' down my first thought was George Wallace, the governor of Alabama who set loose the dogs. That same look of dispirited evil.

Thomas Sullivan

January 21, 2009 05:27 PM

Simply put, he gives me the creeps.

wimzee22

January 21, 2009 05:32 PM

I liked the War Room comment that Cheney was very "Big Lebowski-esqe" as well.

orbitboy

January 21, 2009 05:38 PM

Hahahahaha Funny! The Daily Show spoke about the same thing last night and superimposed a white fluffy, cat in Cheney's lap. Seeing him in that wheel chair was such a metaphor was it not?

findyourinnerrockstar

January 21, 2009 05:46 PM

Dr. Strangelove is my favorite movie of all time!!!
I love the comparison. rated to infinity

rahul k. parikh

January 21, 2009 06:02 PM

I was thinking the same thing!

marytkelly

January 21, 2009 06:02 PM

I laughed out loud when I heard the comparison. John Stewert's Bond villan analogy also very on point. I haven't seen the movie in years, but I'll be watching it this weekend.

Smithery

January 21, 2009 06:04 PM

This was laugh-out-loud funny. I can't believe I didn't make the connection -- it's one of my favourite movies.

Boanerges1

January 21, 2009 06:08 PM

The whole administration was a surreal version of Sterling Hayden's character in the movie.

Gary Justis

January 21, 2009 06:22 PM

hilarious. Photos say it all..

fireeyes24

January 21, 2009 08:10 PM

Wow. That fits!

O'Kathryn

January 21, 2009 08:43 PM

That's hilarious... And so fitting! Ya know, I'll bet there was a sword hidden inside that cane, too!

I agree with Emma Peel, the whole administration was Strangeloveesque. Heh, we're lucky to be alive after having that crew in charge for so long. Rated.

Shiral

January 21, 2009 08:49 PM

All I could think of when I saw Cheney in a wheelchair was Richard Widmark as Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death...all those steps at the Capitol.

OEsheepdog

January 21, 2009 09:16 PM

Visually yes but Dr Strangelove is lot more sane than Cheney. I agree with the other comments that Cheney is lot more like the deranged General Jack D Ripper (Sterling Hayden).

Chiron

January 21, 2009 09:43 PM

Can you just hear Cheney, "...precious, bodily fluids..."

Smithery

January 21, 2009 09:46 PM

I wish I could remember the remark I made to Cindy when I saw him being wheeled out, damn those seniour moments. I elicited a laugh from her and I know it was quite pithy

Folkmuse

January 21, 2009 11:05 PM

Now all we need is watching GW ride a nuke down to the target.
I know that in his cranium, there's Slim Pickens.
That's a Southernism, hope not too obscure.
we'll meet again....don't know where, don't know when......

Paul J. O'Rourke

January 22, 2009 12:19 AM

Dang.
By the way, there is an actual historical connection between Strangelove and Cheney. Strangelove was based, in part, on Albert Wohlstetter, a cold war policy analyst. He was a mentor to Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. His advice was put into action during the Ford admin. by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.....or as we say now...Rumsfailed.
Small world (war)

Paul J. O'Rourke

January 22, 2009 12:23 AM

I get the impression that D.Cheney is not at all popular in your
country.
Brilliant headline,I have Emaile d this to my Australian friends.
We need a laugh.

Peter Hilton

January 22, 2009 12:23 AM

A friend of mine summed it up for me re: the Cheney
wheelchair photo "It's emblematic of the Bush/Cheney
Administration=BROKEN

DakiniDancer

January 22, 2009 12:38 AM

I LOVE this. Must have been Brian.

o'stephanie

January 22, 2009 01:09 AM

Hard for me to feel any sympathy for Dick Cheney. I heard he might be opening up a Waterboard shop down the Jersey Shore this summer.

ClosureIsaMyth

January 22, 2009 02:02 AM

Personally, I think he needs a Mini Me.

Ted Zeppelin

January 22, 2009 02:11 AM

Tough? A "little like Dr. Strangelove" ...?... That was Great. I mumbled: `rough.
The Rottweiler gets wheeled off to the kennel? A teething pup?
And for sure, the surly critter is a hyena, a mange jackal? Howl!
Oh, bloodhound `Farewell. Good bye. Go drool at Mt. Misery!

Arthur James

January 22, 2009 07:58 AM

When I saw him, all I could think of was OS and how we could use the "Tippem" feature......

cartouche

January 22, 2009 09:29 AM

Dr. Strangelove probably had a conscience.

scanner

January 22, 2009 12:08 PM

That is a nice picture. How I stopped worrying, and came to love the Bush Administration.

Don Rich

January 22, 2009 03:05 PM

"General Jack D. Ripper: He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought. I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids."