Salon.com > Atlantic Media Company http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 01:08:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Dick Cheney interviewed by Liz Cheney at “Ideas Forum” http://www.salon.com/2011/10/07/dick_cheney_interviewed_by_liz_cheney_at_ideas_forum/ http://www.salon.com/2011/10/07/dick_cheney_interviewed_by_liz_cheney_at_ideas_forum/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:25:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=10105045 This week, the Atlantic Media Co. held its "Washington Ideas Forum," one of many regular events held for Washington's political elite to gather and congratulate themselves for having so many ideas. The Atlantic -- which also publishes a monthly magazine, I'm told -- throws these pricey orgies of self-regard each year, in Washington and Aspen. One of the big "ideas" presented at this year's forum was actually a pretty old one: that no matter how awful and criminal certain people's behavior is in office, they will never, ever be kicked out of the Washington elite.

That's why the forum hosted Henry Kissinger, this big idea's mascot. And that's why the forum ended with an interview with former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has a memoir to promote. Cheney was joined onstage by his daughter and co-author, Liz Cheney, who is devoting herself to whitewashing her father's legacy of torture and death and shooting old men in the face.

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