Sunday was not a good day for conservatives and Republicans who have done all they could to destroy the Iranian nuclear deal. While Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed the deal on Meet the Press, Fox News host Chris Wallace did the unthinkable by asking former Vice President Dick Cheney follow up questions on his attempt to blame President Obama for the Iranian centrifuge buildup that occurred during the Bush Administration.
In the video, you can see that Dick Cheney is completely caught off guard by the follow-up questions from Chris Wallace. Undoubtedly, this is because Cheney believed he was in friendly territory at Fox News and never expected a host to challenge his false narrative.
Needless to say, those of us who understand the propagandistic machinations of Fox News were equally surprised by Wallace as Cheney. Who would ever expect real journalism that actually challenges conservative talking points? From the looks of this clip, Cheney clearly didn’t. Sure, to the lesser informed and intentionally obtuse, Cheney’s ramblings and contortions will sound convincing. But to those of us with enough working digits to see through the deflections, we saw Cheney collapse on a friendly national network.
Watch Actual Journalism On Fox News Destroy Dick Cheney (transcript below):
WALLACE: Mr. Vice President, you say that President Obama never put a serious nuclear option on the table but you and President Bush, the Bush-Cheney administration dealt with Iran for eight years. And I think it’s fair to say that there was never any real serious military threat. And during your time-let’s put these numbers up on the screen-Iran went from zero known centrifuges in operation to more than 5,000. So in fairness, didn’t you leave the-Bush-Cheney administration-leave President Obama with a mess?
CHENEY: Well, I don’t think of it that way. In fact, there was military action that had an impact on the Iranians, it was when we took down Saddam Hussein. There was a period of time when they stopped their program because they were afraid of what we did to Saddam we were going to do to them next. We also, when we took down Saddam, Moammar Gadhafi surrendered up his nuclear program. When we got that, then went and got his supplier, Mr. A.Q. Khan. We did a lot to limit nuclear proliferation in the region while we were there.
WALLACE: But the centrifuges went from zero to 5,000.CHENEY: Well, and they well have gone, but that happened on Obama’s watch, not on our watch.
WALLACE: No, no, by 2009, they were at 5,000.
CHENEY: Right. But I think we did a lot to deal with the arms control problem in the Middle East…
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She has got some nerve….and he’s lucky he’s not in jail.
He let them go on and then failed to challenge their claim that Obama caused the growth of ISIS etc They need to go home. Remember we wren to be welcomed as liberatores and the war would be over in months They were wrong
The late Mike Wallace must have appeared to his son Chris in a dream and urged him to do some honest objective reporting for a change. Roger Ailes must have blown a cork!
HOLY MOLY! If those two were Pinocchio they’d trip over their noses while exiting the studio! Talk about TWISTING the TOPIC and LYING!
THAT was AMAZING!
I thought you got rid of Saddam because he was part of 911? or no wait it was to free the Iraqi people? oh no wait it was always about eventually getting Iran nothing about AL Queda , why isnt this guy in prison? why would you think the next administration was gonna try to clean up your mess
Wow, those are two lying pos subhumans. Bush signed an agreement stating that we would leave by a certain date. I don’t know who Cheney thinks he is because when a country doesn’t want you there you don’t just say sorry, I am going to stay. Also, Bush and Cheney didn’t stabilized anything. Bush and Cheney almost destroyed our country and they certainly destroyed Iraq. I guess that 39 million that Cheney made off of Halliburton wasn’t enough. He wants to start another war.
Wellllll, isn’t that—SPESSSSHH-LE…..VERY SPECCCIALLLL….
WALLACE: But the centrifuges went from zero to 5,000.
CHENEY: Well, and they well have gone, but that happened on Obama’s watch, not on our watch.
WALLACE: No, no, by 2009, they were at 5,000.
CHENEY: Right. But I think we did a lot to deal with the arms control problem in the Middle East…
LIAR, LIAR, THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST IS ON FIRE. And you and The Small Tree lit the match. YOU SHOULD BE IN JAIL!
Actually Isis crisis is a result of Bush. Getting rid of Saddam Hussein created Isis. But sure blame Obama….
Cheny has been wrong on so many issues from the beginning and the reason is. It was never about what is good for America, it has always been about Halliburton and how much money they could steal from this country,
You can’t argue with crazy. Cheney lives in his own little world, not on planet earth.
On youtube, Sec. of Defense Cheney under President Geo. H.W. Bush said that the reason they didn’t remove Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War was that if the US removed Saddam Hussein Iraq would disintegrate into 3 separate fighting factions. He was right on that point. Obama didn’t cause ISIS or the refugees. The removal of Saddam Hussein did that. When you have 3 separate and equally powerful forces wanting to control the same oil fields there will be war until one group emerges overwhelmingly victorious through the most brutal means possible. ISIS in large part is composed of the old Saddam Hussein people, and they know that massive brutality worked to keep them in power and to keep the population subdued. They are using the same tactics that were successful in Iraq for those years Saddam Hussein was in power. This was foreseen by Cheney, Bush and everyone who knew anything about Iraq.
Why haven’t President Cheney and Dufus Dubya been charged with treason?
Yeah invading Iraq affected Iran…it left them the strongest power in the region, and they are loving you for doing that for them. Incompetent.
It’s too bad the war criminals Bush and Cheney are afraid to travel outside the U.S. out of fear they’ll be arrested or their war crimes. I hear W is drinking again.
I love Liz Cheney’s assessment that the Middle East is a mess because Obama failed to permanently occupy it, against the wishes and will of the newly formed Iraqi government-because a 12 year war isn’t long enough to calm down that hornets nest.
Cheney and his ilk…err…I mean his daughter, epitomize what has become known as Obama Derangement Syndrome. It’s ALWAYS Obama’s fault, even the weather, and the facts be damned. Obama’s detractors absolutely refuse to hold Bush/Cheney responsible for anything. It is almost as if they’re living in an alternate universe and you know what, they might as well be. That interview was utterly preposterous for its its blatant deception and flat out lies. Cheney IS a professional liar though and I can see he’s trained his evil spawn, Liz, to be an equally proficient, finger-pointing liar too.
they took the wrong guy out Saddam may have been brutal but was certainly not a threat. The war was planned to get rid of Saddam and install a puppet leader to access the oil.
Cheney’s pants are always on fire.