April 28, 2006

Gentlemen, Begin Your Puppet-Making: Cheney Hits Town Monday

Everyone's favorite cyborg-in-vice-chief, Dick Cheney, will be in Center City Monday for a World Affairs Council of Philadelphia luncheon honoring Bernard Lewis. The event's going to be at the Bellevue at Broad and Walnut.

Lewis, you may know is a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton, and is a respected scholar in his field. He does share President Bush's wish for secular, Western-style democracies in the Middle East. He has been criticized of being orientalist; i.e. taking a negative view of those not like the West. And his idea of a Western-style democracy in the Middle East isn't quite working out everywhere now, is it? (And he delivered lectures to Cheney before the war.)

Anyway, Cheney's getting in at the airport at 11, speaking at 12:10 at the Bellevue and leaving at 12:50. Say what you want about Dick Cheney and his handlers, but that's running a pretty tight ship, y'know? Assumedly, there will be "protest areas" across the street from the 'vue like there were when Bush spoke there back in December.

It'll be a little warmer this time, so let's get some good chants and signs going -- it makes for good TV and easy blog entries for alt-weekly writers. Plus, it's Dick Cheney, who has an approval rating lower than church. Who doesn't like bashin' that dude?

Bernard Lewis Revisited [Washington Monthly]
Dec. 15, 2005: Stop the war! Zzzzzz....

Posted by D-Mac on April 28, 2006 01:11 PM
Posted to Dick Cheney , Protests

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