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He says he’ll have heads exploding in Washington. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is turning heads with a new memoir...
The Christian Science Monitor reports...
“This is no sweet-talking, people-pleasing, fence-mending, post-White House memoir. Come on, this is Dick Cheney we’re talking about. Like the man himself, ‘In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir,’ pulls no punches.”
In an exclusive interview with NBC, Cheney addresses some of Bush administration’s most controversial issues. Including his steadfast stance on water boarding....
REPORTER: “In your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation.”
CHENEY: “Yes”
REPORTER: “No regrets?”
CHENEY:“No regrets”
REPORTER: “Should we still be water-boarding terror suspects.”
CHENEY: “I would strongly support using it again if circumstances arose where we had a high-value detainee, and that was the only way we could get him to talk.”
Cheney says in the book, he urged President Bush to bomb Syria in 2007 -- on suspicion Syria had nuclear weapons.
CNN analyst Roland Martin says the revelation isn’t actually that much of a shock.
“Dick Cheney’s philosophy is just bomb away, this is the guy who continued to go out and assert there were WMDs in Iraq, even with President Bush stopped asserting that as well. It is not shock that he wanted to do this. Thank god other people were in the room with common sense.”
So what’s the publicity impact of this new tell-all book? Anti-liberal media site, Newsbusters explains...
“If history is a guide, Cheney will face a liberal media that has been stunningly hostile and derisive in their coverage of the former Vice President.”
Cheney’s former Deputy Press Secretary is responding to a question on Politico’s “The Arena”. It asks if the memoir with improve Cheney’s image.
The staffer’s response...
“...two major factors contribute to why he is not viewed in the light he should.First, is an incredibly hostile attitude from mainstream media towards the legacy of the Bush administration. … Second, particularly when Cheney was vice president, he took little interest in working with reporters to foster a better image.”
A full NBC interview airs Monday night on Dateline.
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