Dick ‘n’ Darth in da bungalow

Good grief. One is a war-mongering totalitarian widely feared and hated, has enormous powers, and who uses dark methods to get what he wants. The other is Darth Vader. Dick Cheney reflects on eight years of super-villainy

He referred to a comment from Hillary Clinton likening him to the Star Wars character Darth Vader. “I asked my wife about that, if that didn’t bother her. She said, no, it humanises you.”

It speaks volumes about the state of Dick Cheney’s reputation (and possibly his marriage) that only by comparing him to one of popular fiction’s totems of evil do we see his human side. I mean of course he comes out well compared to Darth Vader. It’s when Cheney’s compared to people who don’t stomp around the place, dressed in black strangling people, blowing up planets, and maiming their kids, that he comes off badly.

(The rest of the interview probably isn’t worth the bother. It’s the usual. Bush Administration has ‘done pretty well’. Torture bad. Waterboarding and Guantanamo good.)


Posted on December 17th, 2008 at 11:02am under Uncategorized

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  1. James Graham (6 comments.) on 17.12.2008 at 11:46 Permalink | Reply

    This quote reminds me of Spaced:

    “Is Jabba the princess?”

    “Yes.”

  2. Daniel Hoffmann-Gill (228 comments.) on 17.12.2008 at 11:49 Permalink | Reply

    He makes me as sick as your new background, which is giving me mind games…

    1. Justin on 17.12.2008 at 13:02 Permalink | Reply

      Yeah, that had to go.

      1. Daniel Hoffmann-Gill (228 comments.) on 18.12.2008 at 13:43 Permalink | Reply

        HURRAH!

  3. jameshigham (65 comments.) on 17.12.2008 at 11:57 Permalink | Reply

    Turkey yoghurt?

    1. Philip (244 comments.) on 17.12.2008 at 14:40 Permalink | Reply

      It may have been invented there:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoghurt

  4. Letters From A Tory (40 comments.) on 18.12.2008 at 10:04 Permalink | Reply

    I think you are being overly generous by saying that he is better than Darth Vader.

    At least Darth Vader was honest about his intentions and always had an air of ‘evil coolness’ about him.

    http://www.lettersfromatory.com

  5. Philip (244 comments.) on 18.12.2008 at 10:34 Permalink | Reply

    And he was considerate enough to wear a mask.

  6. [...] way to go to beat Dick Cheney, who actually thinks comparisons to Darth Vader “humanises him” (Chicken Yoghurt). I have a feeling that Cheney’s wife, who apparently explained who Vader was to him, was [...]

  7. [...] way to go to beat Dick Cheney, who actually thinks comparisons to Darth Vader “humanises him” (Chicken Yoghurt). I have a feeling that Cheney’s wife, who apparently explained who Vader was to him, was [...]

  8. HELLO! on 15.04.2009 at 06:17 Permalink | Reply

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