{"id":186696,"date":"2013-11-14T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/14\/jeebus-now-i-have-to-defend-dick-cheney\/"},"modified":"2013-11-14T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T01:36:00","slug":"jeebus-now-i-have-to-defend-dick-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/11\/14\/jeebus-now-i-have-to-defend-dick-cheney\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeebus, Now I Have to Defend Dick Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Walsh is now accusing Dick Cheney of being an even bigger monster because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/11\/14\/dick_cheney_even_bigger_monster_than_you_thought\/\">he&#8217;s not trying to look into the background of his heart donor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Still, I was a little startled to hear the former vice president express total indifference to questions about his heart donor in a revealing interview on Politicking with Larry King (it airs Thursday night; here\u2019s a clip). It\u2019s a window into his utter entitlement and self-absorption, and he comes off as an even bigger monster than I\u2019d thought. Most people would at least feign interest in the donor; Cheney can\u2019t manage it.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">When King asks if he knows the identity of the person whose heart keeps him alive, Cheney, who is promoting a book about his transplant experience, says no, and adds, \u201cit hadn\u2019t been a priority for me.\u201d \u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously, why should Dick Cheney feel compelled to find out about his donor?<\/p>\n<p>The idea that Cheney should somehow engage in some sort of narcissistic quest for information about his donor, with the likely effect of causing pain from his surviving loved ones?<\/p>\n<p>If <u><b>my<\/b><\/u> heart ended up in Richard Bruce Cheney, I wouldn&#8217;t want <u><b>anyone<\/b><\/u> to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joan Walsh is now accusing Dick Cheney of being an even bigger monster because he&#8217;s not trying to look into the background of his heart donor: Still, I was a little startled to hear the former vice president express total indifference to questions about his heart donor in a revealing interview on Politicking with Larry &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1203,974,1074,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dick-cheney","category-hack-journalism","category-medical","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186696"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}