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2005-01-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by Steve 2005-01-28 1:55:36 PM|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 This ran on the front page of the Style section in WaPo with a nice large color picture. Sigh.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-01-28 2:09:01 PM|| 2005-01-28 2:09:01 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 I wish he was wearing combat boots.

On second thought, was he?

Posted by Mac Suirtain 2005-01-28 2:49:32 PM|| 2005-01-28 2:49:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Good. I do not want my elected officials tramping around the world looking like randy, coquettish haberdashers.

Posted by Dragon Fly 2005-01-28 3:00:42 PM|| 2005-01-28 3:00:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 These fools would have left the concentration camps unliberated for our soldiers' lack of formal attire. Cheney was there and kept warm. WaPo be damned.

Posted by Tom 2005-01-28 3:31:40 PM|| 2005-01-28 3:31:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan described Cheney's look at the deeply moving 60th anniversary service as "the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower."

This article is pretty damned stupid. Considering the ceremony the VP attended, I would tend to think that fashion would be the least of his concerns (and the attendees, for that matter). Apparently, this either must have escaped the mind of the "fashion writer", or nothing else is more important than fashion, even the deaths of a million individuals.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-28 3:42:56 PM|| 2005-01-28 3:42:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm sure his heart surgeon would have approved of the attire.
Did the WaPo really send over a fashion reporter to cover the 60th anniversary of Auschwitz? Are Nazis "in" this year?

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-01-28 3:45:25 PM|| [http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com/] 2005-01-28 3:45:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 This reporting fits into the "Worthless Shit Not Worth Reading" category. Who gives a rats behind what Cheney wears? Was he warm? That's all that matters.

Posted by John Q. Citizen 2005-01-28 3:52:05 PM|| 2005-01-28 3:52:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 "the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower."

Dear Mr. Cheney - We've had 3+ feet of snow here in Kennedy Country the past week. tu3031 and I could make good use of that jacket(s).

Thanks,

Raj

Posted by Raj 2005-01-28 4:03:14 PM|| 2005-01-28 4:03:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I'd settle for the snow blower.
Al Gore can shove Global Warming up his ass...

Posted by tu3031 2005-01-28 4:05:07 PM|| 2005-01-28 4:05:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 The dead don't care how he was dressed, babe.

Posted by mojo 2005-01-28 4:40:43 PM|| 2005-01-28 4:40:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Are Nazis "in" this year?

IIRC the Nazis - especially the SS - were VERY snappy dressers.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-01-28 4:49:31 PM|| 2005-01-28 4:49:31 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Raj, tu3031:
My oldest son is finally old enough to operate the snow blower. He thought that was way cool - until this past week.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-01-28 4:52:23 PM|| 2005-01-28 4:52:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Cheney was with the phawnch, wasn't he? So he probably had to wear a kevlar union suit but didnt want the froggies to know.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-28 5:06:26 PM|| 2005-01-28 5:06:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Ace said it best:

""Cheney stood out in a sea of black-coated world leaders because he was wearing an olive drab parka with a fur-trimmed hood. It is embroidered with his name. It reminded one of the way in which children's clothes are inscribed with their names before they are sent away to camp. And indeed, the vice president looked like an awkward boy amid the well-dressed adults."

Is anyone else a bit surprised that it never crossed the minds of the editors at the Post to avoid the use of the phrase "the way in which children's clothes are inscribed with their names before they are sent away to camp"?

You know, when writing about an *Auschwitz* memorial?"

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/065189.php

Posted by Mark E. 2005-01-28 5:47:41 PM|| 2005-01-28 5:47:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Oh for the love of... good lord, he is on the far side of 70, with heart trouble, standing out for how long in the snow and the cold? Getting badly chilled is probably not what his doctors ordered.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2005-01-28 5:57:11 PM|| [http://www.sgtstryker.com] 2005-01-28 5:57:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Sgt. Mom, obviously, but it would have been a better story if he had worn drab clothes like everybody else and died. That's what the M$M wanted.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-28 6:04:38 PM|| 2005-01-28 6:04:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 The first decent snow in chicago this year left 4 mid to old age guys dead in their driveways...its an annual occurance... and 2 of the 4 were using snow throwers, so don't let the Home Depot guy use that pitch on ya!
My Honda snow thrower is my favorite power tool but parkas are too bulky to operate it with...t thus invalidating the WAPO reporters clever little turn of phrase.
I have a snow suit that my kids swear I bought to match the snowthrower. I will never tell...

Posted by Capsu78 2005-01-28 6:14:00 PM|| 2005-01-28 6:14:00 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 The testerone-challenged will obviously be targeting Cheney now that word of the Vice-President's dimensionally impressive equipment seems to have spread throughout the national rumor-mill, thanks to a widely-distributed and completely authentic photograph of a modesty lapse during a recent interview.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2005-01-28 8:37:49 PM|| 2005-01-28 8:37:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 "the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower."

ima thinkerin chainey a few bolts short of can be use as snowblower

Posted by muck4doo 2005-01-28 8:44:37 PM|| [http://meatismurder.blogspot.com/] 2005-01-28 8:44:37 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Muck, I must say this is the FIRST time I have no idea what in hell you are trying to say.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2005-01-28 10:06:56 PM|| 2005-01-28 10:06:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Xbalanke - Yes, you're right. But a friggin' fashion writer critiquing the VP's wardrobe at this 60th anniversary makes as much sense as that stupid "Pearl Harbor" movie concentrating on the most boring "love triangle" in cinematic history.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2005-01-28 10:15:50 PM|| [http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com/] 2005-01-28 10:15:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Did it occur to anyone at the Post that it was appropriate for the Vice President of the US to be dressed like the US soldiers who liberated Auschwitz instead of well-dressed Europeans whose parents fell all over themselves handing over their Jewish neighbors to the Nazis? Also, a man with a heart condition is better off warm than fashionable.

Posted by RWV 2005-01-28 10:16:52 PM|| 2005-01-28 10:16:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 Just a minor objection, but I thought it was the Russians who liberated Auschwitz.

Is anyone else a bit surprised that it never crossed the minds of the editors at the Post to avoid the use of the phrase "the way in which children's clothes are inscribed with their names before they are sent away to camp"?

Good catch, Mark E.

Posted by Rafael 2005-01-28 10:39:15 PM|| 2005-01-28 10:39:15 PM|| Front Page Top

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