Cheney Is Resting Comfortably At Bethesda Naval Hospital

How did Cheney hurt his back moving boxes? I mean, I know there's a lot to shred, a lot to hide and all, but where were his minions? As John asked, does MODOK hurt his back moving boxes, or does he just order some dude in a beekeeper costume to move them? Does Cobra Commander hurt his back moving boxes? No, because his henchmen are on the job.  Cheney's minions need to step up. Yeah, I'm looking at you, Addington.

Comments

[abb1]

Well, obviously the minions who saw the boxes have to be kept in a dungeon for the rest of their lives, and that's difficult to arrange when you're not in the government.

[The Modesto Kid]

Awesomeness from Hendrik Hertzberg watching Cheney on the TV.

[David Moles]

I don't think we're getting the whole story.

[abb1]

Mark Ames' take: http://exiledonline.com/cheney-borrows-wheelchair-trick-from-casinos-remo-gaggi/

[Stephen Myles St. George]

Let the man alone. He is quite old and ought to deserve some measure of empathy from fellow men.

[Standpipe Bridgeplate]

Look on my works, ye mighty, and go fuck yourselves despair!

[Standpipe Bridgeplate]

Stephen Myles St. George is my new favorite person.

[woof]

Remember Guy Caballero from SCTV. "I'm just using this wheelchair to get respect"!!!

[Jon H]

Awesome title reference!

[PG]

"Let the man alone. He is quite old and ought to deserve some measure of empathy from fellow men."

Why does age outweigh everything Cheney has done to screw over his fellow men (and women)? Even if you exclude his career as VP, he has:

- been arrested twice for DWI (endangering his fellow men);

- "had other priorities in the '60s than military service" in a war he supported politically and that non-supporters were drafted and died in;

- voted against funding Head Start (well, I suppose that only affected children, not "fellow men");

- voted against a non-binding resolution calling on apartheid South Africa to release Nelson Mandela.

[Keioth]

Cheney is looking mighty frail and old. I hope he lives long enough to see most of the thing she's done reversed by Obama, but that may take a while and I don't know if he'll make it another year, let alone 4-8.

[Glen Tomkins]

I don't buy the back injury story

We stopped advising bed rest and wheelchairs for lumbago aobut the time I was in medical school. Yes, it is possible that Cheney's doctor is even older than I am, and/or is too much a subspecialist to have deigned to keep up with how we now treat common but non-life-threatening problems like lumbago. VIP medicine tends to be bad medicine.

I think it far more likely that Cheney had some syncope (fainting), which actually can usefully involve staying in a wheelchair if you have to attend some public function that might otherwise call for you to stand up repeatedly. I understand that he requires a pacer as well as defibrillator, and some kinds of paced patients also take medications which can lead to fainting when they stand. Alternately, it's possible that his defibrillator has been activating a lot lately, and you don't want to be standing when that happens. Of course, the real reason could be just about any problem that would make standing uncomfortable. Lumbago is one of the few medical conditions of which this would almost never be true.

In summary, the real reason for the wheelchair could be a wide variety of medical conditions -- except for the one offered by the VP's spokespersons as the official explanation. Telling a lie that no one who knows anything about the matter at hand would believe, for no apparent benefit. That about sums up this administration.