Dick Cheney's Suite Demands:Sprite, 68 Degrees, Fox News, Extra Lamps

Dick Cheney's Suite Demands
Veep's "rider" requires Sprite, 68 degrees, TVs tuned to Fox News

MARCH 23--After posting the performance contracts of artists like Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, and U2, The Smoking Gun has finally obtained the backstage demands of a real rock star. That's right, below you'll find a copy of Vice President Dick Cheney's standard "tour" rider. The document is provided to hotels where Cheney will be bunking and lists how the Republican pol's "Downtime Suite" needs to be outfitted. While the vice president's requests are pretty modest (no extract-the-brown-M&M demands here), Cheney does like his suite at a comfy 68 degrees. And, of course, all the televisions need to be preset to the Fox News Channel (what, you thought he was a Lifetime devotee?). Decaf coffee should be ready upon his arrival along with four cans of caffeine-free Diet Sprite. And when Cheney is traveling with his wife Lynne, the second family's suite needs an additional two bottles of sparkling water. Mrs. Cheney's H2O should be either Calistoga or, curiously, Perrier, a favored beverage of French terrorism appeasers. The document, prepared by the vice president's advance team, was obtained by TSG after it was provided to a hotel employee prior to a Cheney visit. When we asked Cheney spokesperson Jenny Mayfield about the document's reference to gifts that hotels might leave in the suite for the vice president, she told us she was unable to address that question since she had not seen the "downtime requirements" rider (she asked for a copy, which we declined to provide in advance of its publication here). At our source's request, we've blacked out the handwritten name and Washington, D.C. phone number of a Cheney staffer. As for the notations regarding extra lamps, specific newspapers, and a carafe, it is unclear whether they were added by an advance team staffer or a hotel official.



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"All televisions turned to FOX News"

:rofl:

What a "Dick."

spied on! hahahahaha

he's more disabled than I thought!

wouldn't you be scared of the dark?

just a-skeered of the dark. BOO!!

Fox News only...big f'ing surprise.

That would be really easy to set up. The every tv tuned to faux isn't a surprise, what the hell else would quickdraw watch?

I worked for my University entertainment committee and some of those bands were outrageous. Weezer, still a mediocre band IMO demanded, not requested triple ply toilet paper. They damn near refused to show when we told them that we couldn't find it. We had to remind their manager about the contract a couple of times.

Another band, I forget who, demanded a certain brand of potato chip that was not available in our region so we had to FedEx them in and the assholes never even touched them.

I dont really see what the big deal is...

Rock bands put that stuff in riders to make sure people are reading them!

money.

Defib machines? Iron lungs? Hypebaric chambers? Oxygen tanks?

He must carry all that stuff with him.

Couldn't it? :)

is always important! ;-)

I just called the #

"V.P. advance this is Dan."

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.... for security reasons alone. But still what a greedy bastard ...... he is a frigging
millionaire and wants gifts? What possible material good could he still want and or
need.

These people really think they are Kings.

Clinton spent the night in a hotel not far from my house and I know people who
worked there and said the he was truly a nice guy and spent time with the staff
being a nice guy.

Isn't all Sprite caffeine free?

And, what the hell is a "Super Volunteer"? ....someone willing to donate organs?

n/t

;-)

Mr. Cheney likes a shotgun and a few beers.

He must bring those along himself.

Too funny (and typical) that the TV has to be tuned to Fox News, The Offical Propaganda Arm of the Bush White House™.

that's FRENCH, ain't it? why does Mrs. Cheney hate America? Why?

Is that like someone you can shoot in the face and then they apologize?

google republican women

chin from sucking ass

and flip around to find Faux News. He might get a disease from the commoner who stayed in the room before him.

He better start cranking up that heat because I hear Hell is a tiny bit warmer.