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Mr. Cheney f***ed up

By Michelle Malkin • June 25, 2004 04:38 AM

I’m not going to bother linking to the story. It annoys me. I am still have nightmares about the dangling heads of Nick Berg and Paul Johnson and Kim Sun-Il, and all the mainstream media will be prattling on about today is Dick Cheney’s use of the F word. He shouldn’t have said it. He had a bad day. He lost his cool. Many conservatives are cheering about it–Patrick Leahy deserved it, blah x 3. But I personally don’t like when public figures curse in public, whether it’s Cheney or Bono or John F’n Kerry. It’s fine for blogging (though the strongest you’ll get from me is a damned or a hell). It’s fine when you’ve stubbed your toe or dented the car or missed winning Powerball by 2 (or 3 or 4) numbers. Yes, it’s cathartic (who wouldn’t want to tell off a whiny Democrat), but I just don’t like it when conservative public figures use the worst profanity.

For one thing, it’s uncreative. There are better ways to lay into liberals. Where has the art of the insult gone? Wouldn’t one of these been better than a reflexive F U:

You’re a mouse studying to be a rat.
- Wilson Mizner

I regard you with an indifference bordering on aversion.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

If only you’d wash your neck, I’d wring it.
- John Sparrow

The best part of you ran down your mother’s legs.
- Jackie Gleason

Feel free to leave the profanity-free putdown you would have used on Leahy. (And for those who have been dying to leave one of these for me, go ahead if it gets you through the day.)

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#101

On June 26th, 2004 at 1:30 am, Kate said:

Unfortunately, the damage is done. The only befitting action now for Cheney is a full, unequivocal retraction.

“I was out of line, Mr. Leahy. I take it back.

“Unf*ck yourself.”
#102

On June 26th, 2004 at 1:58 am, Fly said:

Leahy the leech….I guess Cheney finally told him to perform the act on himself.

Did I read someone mentioning the right media? Goodness,I thought almost all the media and journos were last seen swimming somewhere in the pacific ocean with sharks.For us,the easterners,can’t get any more left.
#103

On June 26th, 2004 at 2:03 am, Jim said:

My favorite from Winston Churchill is missing. I don’t remember exactly who he was addressing, but it seems to me it could be addressed to most of the leftist politicians:

“There, but by the grace of God, goes God.”
#104

On June 26th, 2004 at 5:05 am, Allan said:

Kim Hartveld – The dogs/cats/pigs quote was always my favorite. A few more:

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have
#105

On June 26th, 2004 at 8:43 am, Laurence Simon said:

“Refresh my memory, Patrick, when were you ever in the private sector, let alone a CEO?”

“Go home, make some pancakes, and suck on a tree.”

“I’d expect as much from a man who’s been elected by a vacation state.”
#106

On June 26th, 2004 at 9:58 am, Robert Novak said:

I would have said to the Senator “as far as I am concerned you can go perform that impossible feat of contortion”.