{"id":119,"date":"2006-03-25T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T21:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-01-03T11:14:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-03T19:14:51","slug":"dick-cheneys-tour-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney&#8217;s Tour Rider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/graphics\/art3\/0322061cheney1.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/graphics\/art3\/0322061cheney1.gif\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"100\"\/><\/a>Rock stars and other celebrities commonly make special requests when on the road to satisfy their peculiar needs for comfort. Perhaps the most notorious of these was Van Halen&#8217;s request for a bowl of peanut M &#038; M&#8217;s with all the brown ones removed.<\/p>\n<p>Well, move over Dave. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/archive\/0322061cheney1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Smoking Gun<\/a> has obtained the <em>Downtime Requirements<\/em> for V.P. <em>Eagle Eye<\/em> Dick Cheney. Under an instruction that dictates that, &#8220;The items list below are <u>required<\/u>,&#8221; number six on the list demands particular attention:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#0d00d0;\">&#8220;All Televisions tuned to FOX News.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have nothing to add.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rock stars and other celebrities commonly make special requests when on the road to satisfy their peculiar needs for comfort. Perhaps the most notorious of these was Van Halen&#8217;s request for a bowl of peanut M &#038; M&#8217;s with all the brown ones removed. Well, move over Dave. The Smoking Gun has obtained the Downtime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-scandalous"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1V","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27231,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=27231","url_meta":{"origin":119,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Resurrects Disgraced Pundit Dick Morris To Forecast Clinton&#8217;s Demise","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/6\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Following President Obama's reelection victory over Mitt Romney in 2012, the Fox News contributor who missed the call by the widest margin was the notorious Dick Morris. 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