New Yorkers read all sorts of things. There are several papers, more magazines and more local weeklies than you can imagine. A few of these are known as rags, they print a lot of garbage. The two notorious papers that do this are the Post and The Sun. The Post is owned by Rupert Murdoch, so enough said on that. The Sun also has a long line of abuses and today they lived up to their high standards. See: President Cheney.
From The New York Sun:
.....The Washington Post's polling expert, Richard Morin, noted that at 18% approval, Vice President Cheney was less popular than Michael Jackson after he was tried for child abuse and O.J. Simpson after he was tried for murder. Mr. Hayes quotes Mr. Morin as reporting that Mr. Cheney was "less popular with Americans than Joseph Stalin is with Russians." The Huffington Post printed a Thanksgiving Day prayer for Mr. Cheney's death, which, it said, would "rid the planet of its Number One Human Tumor."Some of this may be blamed on a hostile press, and Mr. Hayes also reports on a dynamic within the Bush administration in which presidential aides sought to keep Mr. Cheney's profile low so that he didn't outshine the president. Some of it may have to do with Mr. Cheney's personality — "not a hugger," as the president put it.
The book quotes Senator McCain as saying, "Dick doesn't like campaigning." Nothing in the Hayes book suggests that Mr. Cheney is about to do it — except for that the vice president spent nearly 30 hours cooperating with the author and apparently gave the okay for many of his friends and colleagues to grant similar access. The Richard Cheney described in this book isn't vain enough to do that simply for his reputation in history. My own guess — okay, hope — is that Mr. Cheney has taken a look at the Republican presidential field and sees an opening. If Iowa and New Hampshire Republicans start receiving copies of " Cheney" in their mailboxes, Mr. Cheney's popularity may yet begin to climb.
The only climb Cheney's popularity could see would be if you flipped the world on its head and he climbed to zero. There is nothing likable about this man. He is a tyrant, a despot and a terrible human being. The New York Sun publishes some horrific stuff, but this is just plain insanity.
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