Where's the Soap to Wash Cheney's Mouth?
Reported by Eleanor - June 25, 2004 -
On June 25 at 6:50 pm ET, Brit Hume & panel excused Dick Cheney for cursing Sen. Patrick Leahy on the Senate floor. No condemnation. No rebuff. No "he shouldn't have done it." No "washing his mouth out with soap." But lots of excuses.
The conversation went something like this:
Brit Hume: Is it worth all the fuss? (Then smiles)
Charles Krauthammer: He was provoked by false unsubstantiated accusations. Al Gore's "brown shirt" tactics for instance. We're worried about the Vice President's language, when there's an astonishing lack of civil discourse by democrats.
Jeff Birnbaum: Bush and Cheney had a bad year. Cheney's acknowledgement is good politics. It makes him feel better.
Fred Barnes: We have "old ladies" in this town. Dems are offended that he'd use the "F word?"
Hume: Cheney said Leahy back stabs and then wants to be your buddy.
Comment: That's all. No reproach. No "fair and balanced." If Clinton, Gore, Kerry, etc. had said this, the treatment would be totally different. Oh, come to think of it, Kerry did use the "F" word once. The following can be found on Foxnews.com, December 7, 2003. It relates to an interview of Kerry by Rolling Stone Magazine:
Kerry said, "Did I expect George Bush to f--- it (Iraq) up as badly as he did? I don't think anybody did."
The expletive drew a rebuke from the White House, which suggested an apology might be in order.
"That's beneath John Kerry," the president's chief of staff, Andrew Card, said in a televised interview.
"I'm very disappointed that he would use that kind of language," Card said. "I'm hoping that he's apologizing at least to himself, because that's not the John Kerry that I know."
See the entire Foxnews.com story at Andrew Card Blasts Kerry's Profanity
