Press Secretary Gibbs this afternoon deferred a reporter to "ask the Vice President" a question and Gibbs was referring to Cheney. WTF! My understanding is that our vice president is Joe Biden. It says so on The White House web site (even though the page makes no mention of Biden actually taking office, it calls him Vice President). Therefore, if the White House Press Secretary tells a reporter to "ask the Vice President", it seems to me that he is referring to VP Biden. By extension, it implies that the "wrongdoing" in the question is pointed at VP Joe Biden.
Since January 20th, the media has called Cheney "the Vice President" over and over and over again. We had an election that changed that (whew!). It is bad enough that the media does this. It is quite another thing when people in our own government, speaking from the White House, continue to give that revered title to a discarded piece of crap called Cheney. This mistake unwittingly gives Cheney a subliminal authority over current government operations.
This mistake of titles also applies unfair evil doing onto an innocent statesman, Joe Biden.
SO STOP IT!
Every time someone says "Vice President Cheney" or "the Vice President" referring to Cheney, they should be made to stand before a chalk board --like Bart Simpson -- where they should be made to write over and over again:
Cheney is the FORMER Vice President and is now completely impotent.
Cheney is the FORMER Vice President and is now completely impotent.
Cheney is the FORMER Vice President and is now completely impotent.
Cheney is the FORMER Vice President and is now completely impotent.
Cheney is the FORMER Vice President and is now completely impotent.
Cheney is the FORMER Vice President and is now completely impotent.
Cheney is the FORMER Vice President and is now completely impotent.
Cheney is the FORMER Vice President and is now completely impotent.
Cheney is the FORMER Vice President and is now completely impotent.
Sorry about the short diary but I am so SICK of hearing a title of respect still applied to the piece of crap that continues to torture us with defense of torture.
Disclaimer: I have no footage of Gibbs saying the phrase. I may even be mistaken. If he didn't say it, I apologize. But the rant stands that EVERYONE needs to stop referring to Cheney with his FORMER title!