Well, Not “Ha-Ha” Funny
By Well, it’s nice to see that war criminals and their most servile apologists can still enjoy a good chuckle:
Dick Cheney is ready to laugh about waterboarding.
Conservatives gathered at the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan Monday night to roast the former vice president at an event where many of the biggest laugh lines touched on the most controversial policies of a key architect of his administration’s war on terror. At the gathering, hosted by Commentary, figures including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey drew a mix of chuckles and winces with jokes that left few lines uncrossed, according to three guests.
Former Sen. Joe Lieberman “said something to the effect that it’s nice that we’re all here at the Plaza instead of in cages after some war crimes trial,” recalled one person who was there.
I’m so old I remember when Michael Mukasey becoming Attorney General was allegedly a huge win for supporters of civil liberties, and wanting Connecticut to be represented by an actual Democrat instead of Joe Lieberman was a horrible act of incivility.