Jonah Goldberg: 'It’s A Sign Of Integrity That Cheney Doesn’t Care’

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http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/27/jonah-on-cheney

Cheney Fan Club Member Jonah Goldberg: ‘It’s A Sign Of Integrity That Cheney Doesn’t Care’

In yesterday’s Los Angeles Times, National Review editor Jonah Goldberg wrote, “I’m a longtime member of a pretty select group: the Dick Cheney Fan Club.” Goldberg appeared on MSNBC with Tucker Carlson to discuss his membership in this exclusive club and to explain the traits in Cheney that he found worthy of admiration.

“(Dick Cheney) just does not care. I think it’s a sign of character and integrity on his part that he just doesn’t care,” Goldberg said, adding, “He’s a serious guy.”

Asked by host Tucker Carlson why some critics have such a strong distaste for Cheney, Goldberg offered this penetrating analysis:

I have no idea. I truly have no idea. I like Dick Cheney — love to have a beer with the guy. I think he is a smart, serious man in American life. I think one of the things that bothers them is he doesn’t care. … He looks like he should be eating a sandwich while he’s (giving a speech). That’s just the sort of matter-of-fact, eating lunch over the sink, oh yeah and by the way, here’s my view of the world. I love that!

Watch it:

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A March 2004 report by Rep. Henry Waxman’s office documented 51 misleading pre-war statements made by Dick Cheney about the threat posed by Iraq. Cheney has expressed no regret or remorse for having committed the nation to a war on false grounds. Instead, he has continued to propagate one falsehood after another to maintain the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

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Transcript:

CARLSON: Why are you defending Cheney?

GOLDBERG: No, I, I–well, first of all, I have–I just simply, I have always liked Dick Cheney. I think that he’s, you know, as I put it in the piece, you know, everyone–everyone on both sides of the aisle, there’s a lot of this you know, sort of talk about how we don’t want politicians to go by the polls, who don’t put their finger in the wind and go with just whatever the prevailing conventional wisdom is.

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1. Why do they let his braindead fool have access to the public?

He should be in a padded room somewhere, left alone to drool all over himself, wear diapers, and hold inane conversations with his mother.