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Letterman Fingers Cheney as D.C. John

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DICK MOVE Letterman, Cheney (inset)

If David Letterman jokes about it, it must be true, right? The gap-toothed comic got out a little bit ahead of the Washington press corps last night when he cracked jokes in his monologue about rumors of Dick Cheney's involvement in the D.C. Madam scandal. The charge—that Cheney was a regular client of Deborah Jeane Palfrey during his Halliburton days—had heretofore been retailed only on the blogs of weird and lonely people, and is dubious (yet delicious!) enough that even Wonkette greeted it with skepticism.

But Letterman refused to let the trail go cold. "Here's a story we're working on now," he said during Wednesday night's monologue. "Apparently, there are rumors coming out of Washington that Vice President Dick Cheney, when he was the CEO of Halliburton, used to go visit prostitutes. This could explain why one girl was paid two billion dollars. I mean, I was thinking about this and Cheney ... I mean, going to a prostitute, that's ... I mean, I can't believe a good-looking guy like that would ever have to pay for sex, you know what I'm saying?" A spokesperson for CBS declined comment.

Brian Ross, the ball is in your court.

Photo: Getty Images

By John Cook   05/17/07 5:11 PM
File Under: David Letterman, Dick Cheney
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I'm not sure David Letterman should be mocking how other people look.

Posted by: WasatchMan on May 17, 2007 7:13 PM

Right on, SasquatchMan! It's all about Cheney's *looks*--Letterman is definitely uglier. Besides, how many thousands of dead Americans owe their fate to Letterman? Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis--just in case you're into counting the lives of brown people...
And so what if Cheney's name is in the DC Madam's client list? He has worked hard for his money. Let him spend it how he likes. It's not like some hot intern is going to come on to Darth Cheney...

Posted by: Chimpeach on May 17, 2007 11:20 PM

Right on, SasquatchMan! It's all about Cheney's *looks*--Letterman is definitely uglier. Besides, how many thousands of dead Americans owe their fate to Letterman? Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis--just in case you're into counting the lives of brown people...
And so what if Cheney's name is in the DC Madam's client list? He has worked hard for his money. Let him spend it how he likes. It's not like some hot intern is going to come on to Darth Cheney...

Posted by: Chimpeach on May 18, 2007 8:49 AM

Just wait and see how this plays out, my Radar friends, just wait.

Posted by: artdish on May 18, 2007 12:00 PM

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'during his Halliburton days--had heretofore been retailed only on the blogs of weird and lonely people'

Oh really? The ONLY weird and lonely people are aholes like cheney and those who lavishly support his criminal activities. Hmm. I wonder who that might be? LOL

Posted by: raoul on May 18, 2007 3:44 PM

Wow, a little disagreement brings out the mouth-foamers, doesn't it?

Posted by: WasatchMan on May 19, 2007 4:22 AM

Well, at least Clinton didn't have to pay for it.
P.S. For the web designer, the word successful only has one 'l'.

Posted by: pamdc41 on May 19, 2007 9:29 AM