Cheney overheard in Iraq: ‘Kick the press out.’

Cheney overheard in Iraq: ‘Kick the press out.’“Once safely ensconced in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, however, Cheney appeared to reserve his toughest language for his normal target — the press. Cheney held a lot of photo ops with key Iraqi leaders like Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, but was adamant about not taking questions. At one point, Cheney emphasized to the assembled journalists that ‘this is just a photo spray.’ Later in the day, as reporters filed into an embassy conference room for another photo of Cheney they overheard him tell his staff ‘then we kick the press out.’”

UPDATE: From a pool report: “Around 5:20 p.m. (local) there was a distant explosion that rattled windows at the building where the VP and the press corps are working today.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/09/cheney-overheard-in-iraq-kick-the-press-out/

Good to know what sort of person Cheney is, although I suppose we knew all that already.

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Not just in the room he was in, in the whole country.

That way they can take pictures of people shopping in Indiana and try to pass it off as Baghdad

That's another example of conservative values shining brightly. Surely the ignorant trash who support these monsters would have no problem with it whatsoever. Hell, why should we know what our elected representatives are doing, that's just fucking communistic liberalism.

They have had zero interest in promoting "the general welfare".

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/05/09/iraq.main/index.html?section=cnn_latest


The senior administration official summarized Cheney's message: "We've got to pull together. We've got to get this work done. It's game time."

An important topic on Cheney's agenda is to persuade the Iraqi Parliament to forgo its planned two-month recess. The Bush administration is pushing for members to keep working on legislation, such as a measure on oil revenues.

kick the press out of the whole quagmire of Iraq...wouldn't he love it?

He who controls the past controls the present...

From Hissyspit's thread:

I suppose he could have been referring to the international press. But I can't imagine he meant US mass media, which has been at the forefront of BushCo boosterism since "everything changed on 9/11." It's like firing Goebbles as minister of propaganda because some irritating little twit reporter misquoted him and got the death totals at Buchenwald wrong.

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