Cheney’s Nixon moment

I really long for the days when political satire on Saturday Night Live had that nasty edge. How wonderful would a young Dan Ackroyd be as a seething, angry and irrationally dangerous.

I was struck by this image as I read this post from Glenn Greenwald on his Unclaimed Territory blog on Salon:

Since the smashing repudiation his party suffered at the hands of the American voter in the 2006 midterm elections, Dick Cheney’s behavior has become palpably more secretive, combative, and scornful. The embittered interview he gave to Wolf Blitzer was the most vivid, but far from the only, instance. He seems to harbor such scorn for the democratic process that he literally no longer cares whether the answers he gives to reporters’ questions even make any sense.

Ackroyd’s debased and demented Nixon, right?

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie.

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