Chenney’s History of Denial
This morning, listening to an NPR story about Chenney’s denial that he even knew who Joseph Wilson was before the newspaper article revealing Wilson’s wife’s identity was published and I suddenly flashed back to the Vice Presidential debate last fall:
I’m up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they’re in session. The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight.
– Vice President Dick Chenney to then-Senator Edwards, September 30, 2004 [“2004 Vice Presidential Debate”]
Of course, they’d met before…
Addressing the National Prayer Breakast, Cheney said: “Thank you. Thank you very much. Congressman Watts, Senator Edwards, friends from across America and distinguished visitors to our country from all over the world, Lynne and I honored to be with you all this morning.” [FDCH Political Transcripts, Cheney Remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, 2/1/01] [“Cheney LIES LIES LIES (Daily Kos)”]
Really that was a childish tactic on Chenney’s part. But apparently, it’s one he’s used to using.
I don’t know Joe Wilson. I’ve never met Joe Wilson.
– Vice President Dick Chenney, September 14, 2003 [“Meet the Press”]
Lawyers involved in the case, who described the notes to The New York Times, said they showed that Mr. Cheney knew that Ms. Wilson worked at the C.I.A. more than a month before her identity was made public and her undercover status was disclosed in a syndicated column by Robert D. Novak on July 14, 2003.
Mr. Libby’s notes indicate that Mr. Cheney had gotten his information about Ms. Wilson from George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, in response to questions from the vice president about Mr. Wilson. [“Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Officer, Notes Show”]
It’s not a warm-fuzzy feeling to know that your Vice President has a history of lying and denying. If he lies about “small stuff” like this, how can we trust anything that comes out of his mouth?
tags: Dick Cheney, Joe Wilson, lie
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on October 25, 2005 at 6:59 pm
John said:
we can never trust anything that comes out of cheney’s mouth.
on December 19, 2005 at 5:16 pm
Big Dog said:
Never met Edwards or Wilson could still be true. I have given a number of speeches where I welcomed people by name who I had never met in person. He did not say that he did not know who they are, just that he had never met them.
I agree with you about lying though. How can you trust a guy when he lies about the small stuff. I mean, if a guy were to say “I have never had sex with that woman, Ms. Lewinsky” and it turned out to be a lie how could you ever trust anything he said?
Oh wait, the left trusts him. They actually excused the behavior and the lie. So I guess you really can have it both ways…..
on July 8, 2007 at 1:49 am
William said:
I believe that this was a joke meaning the Edwards was not on the showing up on the job often enough to be seen: “I’m up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they’re in session. The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight.”