Dick Cheney is going to appear in a new documentary about his career called “The World According to Dick Cheney” that will air at the Sundance Film Festival and then on Showtime. I sure hope this turns out to be fair to him as I’m a little worried that he’s being setup:

YAHOO NEWS – Director R.J. Cutler knows a few things about landing tough interviews, like prickly Vogue editor Anna Wintour and some of Bill Clinton’s campaign advisers. But nothing has compared to landing Dick Cheney, the former vice president and subject of Cutler’s new documentary premiering Friday at the Sundance Film Festival.

For more than nine months, Cutler–whose credits include “The War Room,” about Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign staff–pursued an interview with Cheney, who has never tried to conceal his disdain for the media. But early last year, well after Cutler had begun work on a documentary about Cheney’s 40-year political career, the ex-VP finally agreed to meet with Cutler to hear the director’s pitch about why he should participate in the movie.

“It took a lot of patience and calming of nerves because up until that point, we didn’t really know if we were going to even have a chance to make the movie we really wanted to make,” Cutler said in a telephone interview with Yahoo News.

Over lunch, Cheney pressed Cutler on whether he would have a chance to tell his side of the story or if it the film was just going to be a hit job featuring Cheney’s many critics. Cutler told the former VP that he wasn’t entering the process with any “pre-conceived notion or agenda”—in spite of the fact that Cheney has been considered one of the most polarizing political figures in recent memory.

“I just told him that I wanted to tell his story and that included making his voice as central in the film as anybody else’s,” Cutler recalled.

Not long after their two-hour meeting, Cheney agreed to cooperate with the project and ultimately sat down for four days and nearly 20 hours of interviews. Those interviews form the foundation of “The World According to Dick Cheney,” which is scheduled to air on Showtime in March after its debut at Sundance.

The nearly 2-hour film explores Cheney’s full biography, from his troubled youth— he was kicked out of Yale twice and arrested for drunk driving in his home state of Wyoming—to his rise as one of the most influential and controversial Republicans in Washington. The film includes interviews with Cheney, his wife Lynne, and a cadre of both critics and longtime allies of Cheney, including former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who first hired Cheney during a stint in the Nixon White House and worked closely with him in the Ford and Bush administrations.

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Wolfie
Wolfie

He needs to have his own people co-tape any and all interviews. That way if there is a question afterwards about what was said or how the question was asked. Or if there is some "creative editing" being done, he can release his own unedited version and clear things up quickly.

TeaWattage
TeaWattage

I couldnt agree..more. After seeing what...they did..to Sarah Palin.

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

RIGHT THIS VERY MINUTE - there is another Islamist hostage crisis going on right now in Algeria and AMERICANS ARE BEING HELD. Same old Islamic jihad cr*p that has been going on since the 1970s. They want to swap the blind sheikh and a woman AlQueda operative for the hostages.

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2013/01/myjihad-in-algerian-hostage-crisis-continues-muslim-terrorists-still-hold-at-least-20-non-muslims-ho.html

For a year, there has been an US sponsored Islamist power-grab from one end of Africa to Asia in which Al Queda flags were being flown after every Islamist rebel victory.

Moreover, the Pakistanis, our so-called allies who (allegedly) were caught harboring gay porn comsumer Bin Laden (who knows who was dumped in the water), have 'unfriended' the US and have just let all their Taliban prisoners loose.

Karzai, whose fiefdom was bought by American blood, has let us know we are not ever going to be BFF with him either.

Al Queda is alive and well. The Taliban are 'not our enemies' (says Bigmouth Biden).

It's time to remove our soldiers and all our equipment out of Islamic hell-holes and remove every bit of Islam and all its tentacle groups out of our country.

Including the vile hate-mongering Black Muslim Supremacists.

Don't negotiate or argue with them, put them all on planes and parachute them into Iran and Saudi Arabia. Nationalize their assets. Drill our own gas and oil and refuse to buy any from Islamic countries until they repent and reform.

And don't back down and don't let them back in.

badbadlibs
badbadlibs

But, the prez has a 51% approval rating. How can that be? The MSM hasn't covered anything of the importance you tell us and if they do/did it's with a pro obomo slant.

They hung VP Cheny and Pres. Bush over Iraq and Afgan., yet more treasure and deaths have happened under obomo and we're still there.

lazy Americans....priceless to the left.

nibblesyble
nibblesyble

I admire Cheney's intelligence so what the heck made him trust this director?! I don't have a good feeling on this...

Laurel
Laurel

Some how I smell a rat....

unclesamnephew
unclesamnephew

speaking of rats...congresswoman rosa de lauro has introduced H.R. 226. this must be defeated. it allows IRS to buy back guns, and tax "unlawful" guns. i have already written my congressman

sDee
sDee

We really do live in a police state. A proposal like this should be considered grounds for impeachment.

Laurel
Laurel

Yeah i saw that. She needs to go back under her bridge.

sDee
sDee

A dangerous and fabricated report from the US Army. It is highly deceptive propaganda.

The center — part of the institution where men and women are molded into Army officers — posted the report Tuesday. It lumps limited government activists with three movements it identifies as “a racist/white supremacy movement, an anti-federalist movement and a fundamentalist movement."

The far right represents a more extreme version of conservatism, as its political vision is usually justified by the aspiration to restore or preserve values and practices that are part of the idealized historical heritage of the nation or ethnic community

Those who understand the Federalists and how the Bill of Rights emerged from their work, are now been classified as Anti-Federalists and right wing extremists.

"Liberals" who are dismantling our Constitution, Bill of Rights, representative government and rule of law, are classified as future or progressive oriented.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/17/west-point-center-cites-dangers-far-right-us/

aposematic
aposematic

I'll wait for it to hit WalMart's $5 bin if even then. Propaganda is what it is...

Rshill7
Rshill7

Cheney just didn't have the heart to turn it down.

Showtime?

Uh huh. It'll be as fair as the day is long...in the Klondike...in Winter.

sjmom
sjmom

We'll have to wait to find out if its truth or fiction. My vote is probably a little of both.

Nukeman60
Nukeman60

'Cutler told the former VP that he wasn’t entering the process with any “pre-conceived notion or agenda' - Yahoo news

Every documentary starts out with a 'pre-conceived notion or agenda'. That's the nature of documentaries. Watch for this one to be typical of that gameplan.

"No, no, really Mr. Vice President. Trust me. Say whatever you feel. I assure you that we will not edit and splice the interview at all." - Yeah, right. Tell that to Sarah Palin after her Katie Couric interview. You can watch that entire interview after you've swept up the pieces off the cutting room floor.

Howzah123
Howzah123

Cheney was only "controversial" to the rabid shrieking harpies on the far left

Sane and rational people think he's a bad ass

colliemum
colliemum

From the link:

"“The ones that spend all their time trying to be loved by everybody probably aren’t doing much. If you aren’t prepared to have critics, to be subject to criticism, you’re in the wrong line of work,” Cheney bluntly declares in the film. “ If you want to be loved, go be a movie star.”

That reminded me of Baroness Thatcher, who said: "If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing."

Not exactly an ocean apart, are they ...

Sober_Thinking
Sober_Thinking

I don't think he or W. Bush will ever get a fair shake. A film like this will not likely be fair.

Scoop, you are probably right about him getting set up.

sDee
sDee

You know it, i know it, TRS knows it - so why exactly would Cheney not know it?

This is how a narrative of history is created.

deTocqueville1
deTocqueville1

With all due respect to Cheney, does anyone care what he has to say about anything? He has been the consummate Washington insider and croney capitalist since he was a young man. He is a major part of the problem and one of the insiders and Bush family accolytes who destroyed the Reagan legacy.

c4pfan
c4pfan

Heck no! They don't bother with dealing with any of the issues now, so why should I care now?

ssenecal5000
ssenecal5000

Correct, Bush and Cheney has done more harm to Conservatism than Obama ever could hope to be.

They changed what it means to be Conservative , Obama could never do that even with his huge propaganda arm we call a free press.

Bush, Cheney , Rove almost completely wiped out the Republican party.

It's time to let them go

badbadlibs
badbadlibs

No matter how they approached conservatism, no body holds a candle to obumo and the harm he has done.

I don't know who is holding on to Pres. Bush, he hasn't lifted his head since leaving office. It would be chopped off if he dared. Rove got the boot from Fox, and Cheney is the only one with enough courage of his convictions to speak for the last four years. And that's as rare as hens teeth.

sDee
sDee

to me it is simple - anyone such with such stature, knowledge and audience who is not standing up and telling American citizens the truth and of how deep the corruption, subversion, destructiveness, deception and criminality our government is, is part of it.

Laurel
Laurel

I think that is a little naive especially considering the treatment whistle blowers get in this country. You have to want ton get things done for a greater purpose and sometimes that means not quibbling about every single thing. Being the constant fly in the ointment accomplishes nothing.

Laurel
Laurel

What makes you think he hasn't told the truth?

sDee I think you are like many in that you don't separate politics from governance. The left knows the difference and plays that fiddle better than ol' Charlie himself. Cheney getting in front of microphones and spilling his guts is the same effect of whistle blowing and will accomplish nothing except self neutering.

What is it you would like him to tell the 'truth' about? what hasn't he been forthcoming on?

Yeah politics are over complex to be sure but the will always be the case in a nation of over 300 million people that can't decide collectively on what is wrong or wrong in any given day. In other words politics are complex not because of the politicians but because of the people.

sDee
sDee

Not naive - a simplification. Simplification and assumptions are a useful tool for beginning to understand things which are essentially simple, but are obscured with over-complexity.

A whistle blower is someone exposing the truth who needs protection from their own organization who could destroy them. A man like Cheney telling the truth could hardly be considered a whistle blower.

If a man as powerful, connected, and protected as Cheney cannot tell America the truth about its own government without fear from reprisals, blackmail, intimidation and threats, what avenue is there? Why would he not?

Conniption Fitz
Conniption Fitz

I will never forgive GWB for lying about Islam, calling it the religion of peace.

How many American lives and dollars have been wasted in Islamic hell-holes by the Bushes, Clinton and Obama?

For what? On Friday, Obama said Al Queda was no longer a threat. This weekend, Al Queda rose up from the dead in Algeria and captured US citizens along with several hundred others from all over Europe.

Under Obama, Al Queda and Hamas and all the rest of the bestial brood of Islamic vipers have spread their hell all over North Africa

None of the disgusting liars that have inhabited the White House since Ronald Reagan have been conservative and honorable. No matter what party they professed, they have been dastardly and dishonest and pawns of foreign interests.

AmericanborninCanada
AmericanborninCanada

Of course dear leader says al queda's no longer a threat.... now that he's armed them all.

1endtimes2020
1endtimes2020

And I thought I was one of the few who noticed Bush say "Islam is a great religion", and a religion of peace. In the meantime, he stood on the rubble of the Twin Towers and could see what the religion of peace was all about. Islam has been a thorn in the side of Christianity and Jews since around 750 AD. They are the same today as they were then.

sDee
sDee

Democracy hawks, or UN globalists and imperialists. Pick your poison.

Betsey_Ross
Betsey_Ross

I love Dick Cheney. I mostly agree with him on everything, and he explains his positions well. And most important, he doesn't suffer fools. Neither does his daughter Liz.

I hope he gets the final say about the finished film. They will kill you on the editing room floor because they only put in the film what they want you to see and hear not necessarily what was your best moment.

Oh, yes, one more thing. Lefties lie. I sure hope he took that into consideration.