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		"The vice president looked like an awkward child amid the well-dressed adults," writes fashion-covering reporter at commemoration of liberation of Nazi death camps (story.news.yahoo.com)		499
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symphonik		2005-01-28 11:54:31 AM

I'm sure they'll change their tune when he starts manning the Islamic death camps.

SockMonkeyHolocaust		2005-01-28 12:13:51 PM

Yeah, they laughed at Hitler's watercolors, too.

Gig103		2005-01-28 01:30:50 PM

Jeez, I hate the press. I hate Cheney but why even bother reporting this?

TheRealist		2005-01-28 01:39:09 PM

JebusH.

I do a quick google news search on "Green Parka" and this story has been printed 92 times at least.

There's a farking war going on and instead of honest reporting of the events over there (GOOD and bad), the press is up in arms because Dick wore a PARKA?

Get your shiat together Reuters, AP.
W.T.F.

johnc98		2005-01-28 01:42:38 PM

Yeah...let's play 'fashion biatch' while the Veep is at Auschwitz...

vernonFL		2005-01-28 01:51:56 PM

If Cheney had a heart attack the press would have said he was trying to upstage the ceremony.

heap		2005-01-28 02:11:18 PM

vernon

i doubt it. i think cheney's heart attacks are common enough that no one would pay that much attention.

as long as wolfowitz is around to reboot him, that is...

StrikitRich		2005-01-28 02:41:11 PM

Inspector Fernando of the E.U. Secret Fashion Police later reminded the V.P., "That it's better to look good, than to feel good, dhar-link."

Captain Obvious		2005-01-28 03:03:57 PM

I heard he had some heart problems. Anyone confirm that?

Those open heart surgery patients get pretty damned cold.

williamzabka		2005-01-28 03:04:26 PM

There are way worse things to criticize the vice president about than what he chooses to wear out in the cold.

TheXerox		2005-01-28 03:04:49 PM

What's more important, a high ranking US official being there, or the attire worn by said official? Nitpicking doesn't even begin to describe something as petty as this.

PlumBob		2005-01-28 03:05:01 PM

Dear Media:

Why the fark even open your mouths?

chemicalpat		2005-01-28 03:05:22 PM

I heard Cheney was wearing Bermuda shorts and sandles to Reagan's Funeral. Atleast he dressed up for the occasion.

vev606		2005-01-28 03:05:41 PM

"The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower," Robin Givhan, The Washington Post's fashion writer

I spit-up on my screen while reading that.

LittleSmitty		2005-01-28 03:05:48 PM

I heard he had some heart problems. Anyone confirm that?

No problems. He would have to actualy have a heart to have heart problems

Picador		2005-01-28 03:05:50 PM

He was probably wearing the parka to conceal the suit of armor he has to wear whenever he appears in public.

The_Other_White_Boy		2005-01-28 03:05:51 PM

Bush=Hitler

Discuss.

/godwinned

Lousy_Smarch_Weather!!		2005-01-28 03:05:52 PM

Oh, it's Cheney...come on, Satan's right hand man....he deserves all the negative publicity.

diskop		2005-01-28 03:05:57 PM

And this is why the world hates America.

Diogenes		2005-01-28 03:06:05 PM

The problem here is that these younger European journalists are unfamiliar with the Bionic Man and Woman. Since Cheney is largely bionic at this point, he has to stay warm. Otherwise his bionic components get weak.

Ebenator		2005-01-28 03:06:20 PM

An old man's fashion-sense. Now we're getting to the real issues.

Tentacle		2005-01-28 03:06:33 PM

damn my non-TF status, I wasn't faster than johnc98

Jakamo		2005-01-28 03:07:02 PM

He should have worn fur like the others in the photo. It's warm and fashionable. Yes I say again, fur is just the ticket.

dynayellow		2005-01-28 03:07:18 PM

It's probably the parka he wore when he was in the Army.

What? What?

acurus		2005-01-28 03:07:47 PM

No accounting for taste.

Or is that no accountability for raping a nation.

HA! Respond to that! Pbbtt.

syberpud		2005-01-28 03:08:23 PM

There is a perfectly reasonable explination: The service crew didn't have time to flush the anti-freeze, so they had to use the parka. Otherwise the circuits might have froze up.

You know how hard it is to jump start that guy in the winter? Later models came with a block heater.

KyngNothing		2005-01-28 03:09:27 PM

have you guys ever read a fashion column? This was high-brow for one, as it didn't even use any made-up words!

robolobo		2005-01-28 03:09:35 PM

at least he didn't wear a "my parents liberated the Nazi death camps and all i got is this lousy T-shirt" shirt

TheXerox		2005-01-28 03:09:39 PM

diskop

And this is why the world hates America.

If the world gets their collective panties in a bunch over something as petty as what a guy wears when it's snowing outside, then I won't be losing much sleep over America being "hated".

Mob Barley		2005-01-28 03:09:43 PM

Get me a beer hoser!

john_frink		2005-01-28 03:09:43 PM

Look at that moron. He looks like an 8 year old pissed off that his mom dragged him to church.

williamzabka		2005-01-28 03:09:57 PM

Bush=Hitler

Discuss.

/godwinned

Congratulations on the most blatant and hilarious Godwin I have ever seen.

McCart		2005-01-28 03:10:03 PM

diskop
And this is why the world hates America.

Oh quit the melodrama. The world hates us for much better reasons than this.

UberDave		2005-01-28 03:10:16 PM

dynayellow: It's probably the parka he wore when he was in the Army.

Heh heh!

Get five draft deferments and get a free parka!!

Fuddy Duddy		2005-01-28 03:10:20 PM

HAHAHA he kind of looks like George Costanza. Did he borrow the coat from his daughter?

Anyone else think this was a clever media move by the administration to knock the deaths in Iraq off the front page?

Diogenes		2005-01-28 03:11:12 PM

"Oh, oh! Who are you wearing? Is that North Face?"

Galvatron Zero		2005-01-28 03:11:12 PM

This is *news*?

Who cares what he wore? The poor bastard looked like he was freezing to death. I mean, c'mon! I'm sure he spends his days in much warmer parts.

eraser8		2005-01-28 03:11:24 PM

TheRealist writes: There's a farking war going on and instead of honest reporting of the events over there (GOOD and bad), the press is up in arms because Dick wore a PARKA?

Your comment reminds me of something I just read in my alumni magazine. Here's an excerpt, written by a journalist in formerly in Iraq:

By early 2004, my ability to travel had become increasingly circumscribed. When I left Iraq in late September, ending an 18-month stint as the Post's bureau chief in Baghdad, the country was under siege -- and so were the Western journalists there.

The inability to travel, to see Iraq with my own eyes, to talk to people directly, was maddening. As a foreign correspondent, I should have been searching for truth on the ground, fact-checking the claims of the American military, the Iraqi government and the insurgents. Instead, I was crawling up the walls of my hotel room.

If there were not so many U.S. troops in Iraq, newspaper editors and television executives would have pulled their correspondents from Iraq months ago as their counterparts in Europe did. But Iraq is still the biggest foreign story these days. Nobody wants to be the first to bail out.

Keeping journalists in Baghdad who cannot work as journalists perpetrates the myth that we know what's really happening there -- and that stories go untold because of political bias. Ive been slammed in private e-mails and public op-ed pieces for not writing enough good-news stories. Ive also been taken to task for not doing more to follow up on the civilian toll from U.S. military operations. The truth is that I would have loved to have written more stories that fell into either category and I suspect most other American journalists would have too -- but doing that was either impossible (because of the dearth of good news beyond the renovation of yet another school) or wildly dangerous (such as driving into Fallujah to examine the results of the latest precision air strike). The unfortunate reality is that American newspaper readers and television viewers are exposed to only a small slice of whats occurring in Iraq, despite the best efforts of the correspondents there.

RoscoePColtrane		2005-01-28 03:11:30 PM

Cheney was trying to get a hold of Prince Harry for fashions tips. "What should I wear to a death camp Harry?"

boohiss		2005-01-28 03:11:44 PM

Anyone else think this was a clever media move by the administration to knock the deaths in Iraq off the front page?

No. Just you.

Kbear18		2005-01-28 03:11:55 PM

Yes, let us all dog one of our leaders about their apparel to make ourselves feel oh so much cooler because we want to appear just as cool as the Europeans who hate us anyway...

mishmashmusic		2005-01-28 03:12:00 PM

Western Europe is gay.

wibblyhead		2005-01-28 03:12:01 PM

Guess he couldn't get Prince Harry to lend out his costume party Nazi duds.

MrGumboPants		2005-01-28 03:12:06 PM

he does look kinda silly.

Mob Barley		2005-01-28 03:12:06 PM

Mellowtrauma		2005-01-28 03:12:11 PM

But seriously, when visiting Auschwitz on a state visit, shouldn't a Vice President dress like a statesman instead of Mr. Plow? I don't think death camp ceremonies have casual fridays.

cyberlost		2005-01-28 03:12:12 PM

That is probably the worst outfit evar worn at Auschwitz !

/gimme my ticket now please.

kbloy		2005-01-28 03:12:14 PM

I read the Washington Post everyday, but I consider Ms. Givhan to be THE MOST irrelevant "journalist" on staff there.
Her political statements through fashion border on the absurd.
Still, I think its funny it got picked up by the AP.

wibblyhead		2005-01-28 03:12:44 PM

Curse you, Roscoe.

skylabdown		2005-01-28 03:13:10 PM

Umm... it's cold.

Talk about looking for a story where there isn't one. This ranks up there with other things that people say they are offended about that I refuse to believe. I mean, how upset do you really think anyone is.. no one is upset... it's just a funny picture coupled with some moran's quote about how offended they are. No one is offended over this..

Is anyone here offended over this? Why? (difficulty, must be sincere.)

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