Good old Dick Cheney just can't keep away from the TV cameras with his cheery, friendly, positive take on the world around us. Whether it is war, torture, terrorism or shooting his friend in the face, there is no subject so grisly and depressing that Gladhand Slim can't turn it into a sunny affirmation of everything sweet and lovely in life. Why does he do it? Of course, there really is an upside: he is building himself up to a point where, sooner or later, he is gonna have to become a laughingstock. And when he does, he will be one of the biggest laughingstocks in the history of the world.
I am old enough to remember the Watergate hearings. Now there was a gang of vicious, humorless, constipated old gasbags who made sure to keep everyone in the country impressed with how scary and smart they were...and it worked for a while. But at a certain point, for whatever reasons, people started laughing at them, and that was the beginning of the end. They lost all their power and looked pathetic. Many went to jail. And it really was made possible by laughter. Al Haig and J. Edgar Hoover, too, had their balloons deflated by jokes. And the same will happen to Cheney.
Try it. The next time he is on TV, snarling and spitting his demented, twisted vision of an America free of the Bill of Rights and any restraints on the cruelty of the King, ask yourself who could best play him in a comedy film. John Candy? Jack Black? The guy who played the skipper on 'Gilligan's Island?'
See? Don't you feel better?
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