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the earlier version of the story seems most correct.
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Pres or Vice?
Matter of opinion.
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You mean it wasn’t a Cheney/Bush administration? Have you clarified that with Cheney?
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Cheney = President
Bush = Resident
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You can’t blame the reporter for being confused. For 8 years most of us wondered who was president and who was vice-president.
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“We would like to correct our correction and clear the record. Dick Cheney was neither President nor Vice President. He was the Dark Emperor.” - NY Times
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A bumper sticker I saw back in those black days read: George Bush, homeschooled by Dick Cheney
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The title he deserves is CONVICT…
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I do feel sorry for the NYT…
It says something about a society when the flagship outlet of its free press occasionally lets the truth slip out, and everyone in the Outer Party just smirks in reaction.
Acting President while holding office of Vice President.
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Correction: September 9, 2014
An earlier version of a summary with this article misstated the former title of Dick Cheney. He was a Richard playing a dick. We regret the error.
Dubya was PINO.
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To paraphrase Shakespeare, What’s in a title, a guy calling the shots for “president” Bush, by any other name, is still president.
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I’m certain he will be surprised to hear that, he will be demanding another correction to set the record straight.
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Sadly, due to staff cuts, the correction came without a blow job.
On the one hand, it’s an easy and easily forgivable mistake to make.
On the other hand, how can one ever fail to link Cheney and “vice”?
Only technically true…
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In psychology, they call that a Freudian slip.
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