{"id":393,"date":"2011-09-10T00:19:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T07:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2018-02-15T23:05:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T06:05:02","slug":"dicks-new-hunting-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Dick&#8217;s New Hunting Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Dick Cheney retrospective continues&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another photo-toon from the March 1, 2006 issue. Remember, about the same time that Uncle Dick shot Harry Whittington, that pillar of honesty, Scooter Libby was giving testimony in his perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice trial. Well there was quite a stir when Libby said the then Vice President authorized him to leak classified information in 2003 to bolster the case for the US-led war against Iraq. <strong>What a Dick! <\/strong>We knew right then and there who Uncle Dick&#8217;s new hunting partner would be.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-394\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=394\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-394\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-394\" title=\"cheneyhunting\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheneyhunting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheneyhunting.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cheneyhunting-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">After Scooter Libby&#8217;s recent testimony implicating Dick Cheney in the Valerie Plame leaks, the Vice President decided to take Libby on a hunting trip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=394\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-394\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Dick Cheney retrospective continues&#8230; Here&#8217;s another photo-toon from the March 1, 2006 issue. Remember, about the same time that Uncle Dick shot Harry Whittington, that pillar of honesty, Scooter Libby was giving testimony in his perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice trial. Well there was quite a stir when Libby said the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=393\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dick&#8217;s New Hunting Partner&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,8,1687,3,111],"tags":[112,9,123,122,98,124,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5847,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/5847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}