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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 05:07 PM Dec 2014

Cheney to Lead Torture-Pride March: 'We’re torturers and we’re damn proud of it—join us’”

Cheney to Lead Torture-Pride March
BY ANDY BOROWITZ

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—In an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” on Sunday, former Vice-President Dick Cheney told host Chuck Todd that he was “sick and tired of Americans being ashamed of our beautiful legacy of torture” and that he was organizing the first “National Torture-Pride March” to take place in Washington in January.

“This is a chance for all of us torturers to say, ‘Look at us, this is who we are,’” Cheney, who will be the Grand Marshall of the parade, said.


The former Vice-President said that he was organizing the march to inspire “the millions of American kids who want to be torturers when they grow up but are afraid they’ll catch hell for it.”

“We’ll be there to say, ‘We’re torturers and we’re damn proud of it—join us,’” Cheney said.

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more:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/cheney-lead-torture-pride-march

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Cheney to Lead Torture-Pride March: 'We’re torturers and we’re damn proud of it—join us’” (Original Post) kpete Dec 2014 OP
For Borowitz I offer this Mel Brooks quote along with my thanks: Bluenorthwest Dec 2014 #1
This is very good, but sadoldgirl Dec 2014 #2
 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
1. For Borowitz I offer this Mel Brooks quote along with my thanks:
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 06:02 PM
Dec 2014

"Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance."

sadoldgirl

(3,431 posts)
2. This is very good, but
Sun Dec 14, 2014, 06:08 PM
Dec 2014

even ridicule will keep attention on these criminals.
I would wish for a national IGNORE button for their
blatherings and excuses.

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