UPDATE, 10/25/07:

So here’s the transcript of the show I saw:

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And also here’s Vice President Dick Cheney apparently nodding off during a cabinet meeting as President Bush was being briefed about the California wildfires. A Cheney spokeswoman just laughed it off, saying quote, “the vice president is taking up meditation” — a funny response there, Wolf.

BLITZER: Very funny, indeed. All right, thanks very much, Brianna Keilar.

I’m starting to think that these talking heads yapyapyap not to actually report on any real news, but just because they like the sound of their own gums flapping in the vacuum they create. “Very funny indeed”? Did you even listen to your correspondent, Wolf? So not funny, is what that was.

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Yawn.

BLITZER: We will get back to Southern California and the fires in a moment.

But, on our Political Ticker this Wednesday, the vice president, Dick Cheney, caught on videotape. The video was taken during a Cabinet meeting over at the White House today. The president was being briefed on the California wildfires. But check it out. Cheney appears appears — appears — to be nodding off, albeit briefly.

Wish I had the video to share, but alas, no luck.

This is actually transcript from the 4PM edition of the show; when I watched during the 7PM hour, Wolf also reported on Cheney’s secretary’s (?) reaction when a journalist pointed out Cheney’s seeming boredom at what has become a national disaster. (Paraphrasing, of course.)

He’s taken up meditation during meetings.

Ha-fucking-ha.

Really, is this their idea of a joke? A million people evacuated, 1,500 homes destroyed, 434,000 acres scorched, and you douchebags are making a funny out of Cheney’s inability to stay awake during a discussion of this very important issue?

And what really gets me is that she had a great out. Several, really. Cheney’s an old guy jacked up on who knows how many meds. Blame it on his age, blame it on the heart pills, heck, blame it on dick pills for all I care. Just don’t make a fucking joke out of what will for many people be the single worst week of their lives. That’s just evil.

Not that I should be surprised, though. Those fuckers don’t usually pretend to care, so at least they’re sticking to what they know best.

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