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Jeff Quinton sends word that the Huffington Post is reporting from Vail, Colo., on Dick Cheney’s alleged hospitalization for heart problems.

I wouldn’t have linked directly to the HuffPuffers, but after glancing at the cesspool in the comments section, I figured you’d be interested. Here’s a sample:

Hasn’t he had his “last throes” of chest pains yet?

Posted by: Anonymous at June 24, 2005 10:28 PM

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I wonder how many regular readers to this pathetic, self-important blog are hoping that Cheney comes out with a sheet over his head…?

Posted by: Eric at June 24, 2005 10:32 PM

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His heart is listening to all the lies coming out of his mouth. It can’t take much more of this drivel.

Posted by: Fred Colton at June 24, 2005 10:33 PM

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I wish the evil zombie would stop leaving his underground bunker. Surely, there’s a medical ward where he lurks below the surface, near Washington, D.C.

Posted by: Citizen Milenko at June 24, 2005 10:37 PM

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You bet we losers want him dead. And I’m glad to be a loser. If I were a winner, I’d have to be around the kind of assholes who like Bush and Cheney.

Posted by: Medina at June 24, 2005 10:37 PM

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“Last throes,” does one suppose? Here’s hoping.

Posted by: HopingAgainst”Hoffman” at June 24, 2005 10:37 PM

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You’re all assuming he actually still has a heart. I don’t think so.

I think it was replaced by a teflon pump a long time ago. Therefore he can no longer feel any pain.

Posted by: Don P at June 24, 2005 10:42 PM

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“I wonder how many regular readers to this pathetic, self-important blog are hoping that Cheney comes out with a sheet over his head…?”

Actually, Eric, I was thinking more along the lines of a stake through his heart.

Posted by: Chuck Feney at June 24, 2005 11:08 PM

This is very reminiscent of how Laura Ingraham was treated after she revealed that she was being treated for breast cancer. At least Elizabeth Edwards had the decency to intervene and chastise rabid moonbats in that case.

So far, no such reminder from Arianna to her commenters on the need for–oh, what did she used to call it?–oh, yeah, “effective compassion.”

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Update:

6/25/05: Well, it seems Arianna does have a conscience after all. She has deleted the offensive posts and published a note addressing the comments.

Good.