Reply #55: We will be observing history being made

[chknltl]

The death of a sitting Vice President is quite rare. I suspect that there will be quite a bit of pomp and circumstance associated with his passing, total news coverage 24-7 and etc.

Here in the DU we would quickly move past the "lets not be morbidly gleeful stage" to the 'WTF' outrage stage when we realize that MSM used this 'event' as a way to block out any important news, scandals, or shocking horrors coming out of the bush-administration. Another-words, Vice President Cheney's passing would be a giant media smoke screen...sorta like a diapered astro-'nut', a pantiless star exiting her car and Paula Abdul-Simon Cowell having a brouhaha all rolled into one yet for an entire week! The size of this week-long 'Friday Afternoon News Dump' will be staggering!

For me the biggest problem with his passing is that we will never get to see what he was truly made of...it's not like the government will slip up and allow another alien autopsy to get out and be posted on youtube again like this one was:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCUxSZjrq2w