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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 07:02 PM Oct 2013

Cheney Disabled Heart Device to Foil Terrorists



http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/10/19/cheney_disabled_heart_device_to_foil_terrorists.html

October 19, 2013

Cheney Disabled Heart Device to Foil Terrorists


Former Vice President Dick Cheney told 60 Minutes that in 2007 his cardiologist disabled his defibrillator's wireless function over concern that terrorists could use it to send a fatal shock.

Said Cheney: "I was aware of the danger...that existed...I found it credible. I know from the experience we had and the necessity for adjusting my own device, that it was an accurate portrayal of what was possible."


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Cheney Disabled Heart Device to Foil Terrorists (Original Post) babylonsister Oct 2013 OP
Well, we are back to the open microwave oven now. RC Oct 2013 #1
The lunatic, sheshe2 Oct 2013 #2
AND Cheney disabled his heart to foil the American people. Squinch Oct 2013 #3
Much as I despise the man... ljm2002 Oct 2013 #4
So that episode of "Homeland" had a bit of reality Beaverhausen Oct 2013 #5
I was thinking the same thing, the Homeland writers were spot on in season 2. sarcasmo Oct 2013 #6
Cheneys an expert. Ghoul-man probably wrote the book on torture with electric shock Sunlei Oct 2013 #7
Heart device? TomClash Oct 2013 #8
When he finally dies, he will die fearful, which is the worst way. dogknob Oct 2013 #9
The war criminal of a Dick is a coward malaise Oct 2013 #11
I thought this was going to be something funny. greatauntoftriplets Oct 2013 #10
It is kinda funny, like watching Dr. Strangelove is kinda funny. leveymg Oct 2013 #14
It was just on AMC . orpupilofnature57 Oct 2013 #15
Did you watch it? leveymg Oct 2013 #18
James Earl Jones looks like a baby in 1964 . orpupilofnature57 Oct 2013 #19
I always carry my car door opener with me in the hopes I will be within range. rhett o rick Oct 2013 #12
How much have we paid, for Dick to victimize US ???? orpupilofnature57 Oct 2013 #13
i have no idea how a shock could be delivered over the wireless function madrchsod Oct 2013 #16
How will he get messages from GOD with Downwinder Oct 2013 #17
He thinks he's God . orpupilofnature57 Oct 2013 #20
I missed that PDB, Dick, 'AQ determined to turn off Cheney's heart'?? nt deminks Oct 2013 #21

ljm2002

(10,751 posts)
4. Much as I despise the man...
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 07:12 PM
Oct 2013

...I think it was reasonable and prudent to take those steps. Any US President or Vice President, or most any head of state for that matter, could be targeted by terrorists these days. In the case of Cheney and Bush, all the more so.

I still loathe the man though.

Beaverhausen

(24,470 posts)
5. So that episode of "Homeland" had a bit of reality
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 07:13 PM
Oct 2013

Can't tell you what I was thinking watching that episode...

dogknob

(2,431 posts)
9. When he finally dies, he will die fearful, which is the worst way.
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 07:25 PM
Oct 2013

Even if you live in a mansion made of blood.

Adios, motherfucker!

malaise

(269,054 posts)
11. The war criminal of a Dick is a coward
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 07:31 PM
Oct 2013

in every aspect of his life and a greedy depraved self-serving scumbag. Let him live to see his clone the daughter lose that primary. May he suffer the way he made others suffer - that man is evil personified - he reintroduced the torture associated with the Inquisition.

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
14. It is kinda funny, like watching Dr. Strangelove is kinda funny.
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 08:00 PM
Oct 2013

American President Merkin Muffley calls the Soviet Premier...

Hello? Hello, Dimitri? Listen, I can't hear too well, do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? Oh, that's much better. Yes. Fine, I can hear you now, Dimitri. Clear and plain and coming through fine. I'm coming through fine too, eh? Good, then. Well then as you say we're both coming through fine. Good. Well it's good that you're fine and I'm fine. I agree with you. It's great to be fine.
(laughs)
Now then Dimitri. You know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well now what happened is, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of, well he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little... funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing.
(listens)
Well, I'll tell you what he did, he ordered his planes... to attack your country.
(listens)
Well let me finish, Dimitri. Let me finish, Dimitri.
(listens)
Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it? Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dimitri? Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?
(listens)
Of course I like to speak to you. Of course I like to say hello. Not now, but any time, Dimitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened.
(listens)

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
18. Did you watch it?
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 09:47 PM
Oct 2013

Do you think it holds up well as a film? As a comedy, it's a bit labored at places (most of the war room scenes, except Sellers as Adlai Stevenson and as Henry Kissinger), morbidly brilliant at others (Sterling Hayden and Sellers, again, as Group Capt. Mandrake in Gen. Ripper's office). George C. Scott is way, way over-the-top as Gen Turgeson.

But, Sterling Hayden and Slim Pickens really steal the show.



 

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
19. James Earl Jones looks like a baby in 1964 .
Sun Oct 20, 2013, 06:36 AM
Oct 2013

Too bad we couldn't enjoy Peter Sellers genius through the last 40 yrs .

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
12. I always carry my car door opener with me in the hopes I will be within range.
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 07:33 PM
Oct 2013

Just kidding. I know that nothing short of a stake thru the heart will be effective.

 

orpupilofnature57

(15,472 posts)
13. How much have we paid, for Dick to victimize US ????
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 07:34 PM
Oct 2013

The disdain the world has had for him most of his life, his fear of terrorism, plague, a bolt of lightning, isn't necessarily paranoia .

madrchsod

(58,162 posts)
16. i have no idea how a shock could be delivered over the wireless function
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 08:17 PM
Oct 2013

i have a defibrillator that is`t monitored by a wireless device. there are distance restrictions when i use electrical devices.

the wireless device is used to send a signal to a near by device (usually near where one sleeps) and that device sends signals back to monitoring company.i still have`t figured out how a terrorist can send a signal to a remote device and that device sends enough electricity to the implanted device.



but he does`t have to worry now. he does`t have a pulse or for that matter a functioning heart. he has a pump that constantly pumps blood through his body.

so now we can finally say without making it up...cheney really does not have a heart.

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