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Cheney Flies in Comfort (AP's Nedra Pickler Whines About Veep's iPod)
AP ^
| Wednesday, December 21, 2005
| Nedra Pickler
Posted on 12/21/2005 2:47:40 PM PST by kristinn
ABOARD AIR FORCE II - Vice President Dick Cheney didn't suffer for comfort on the cavernous cargo plane that he rode into Iraq and Afghanistan this week.
The Air Force loaded the plane with the "silver bullet," a mobile home in the sky strapped down in the middle of the belly. The accommodations included sleeping and working quarters that protected him from the noise and cold of the cargo hold during a more than five-hour flight into Baghdad.
The rest of his traveling party was not so lucky. Cheney's senior staff and junior aides were assigned to a cramped three rows of seats in front of the bullet, while reporters and Secret Service agents had to sit in jump seats along the side with a view of Cheney's stainless steel exterior walls.
SNIP
The vice president is an iPod fan, and keeping it charged is a priority for his staff.
Normally that isn't an issue, even when he's flying around the world. Air Force II is equipped with outlets in each row of seats.
But when Dick Cheney was traveling home overnight Wednesday from his diplomatic mission, most of the outlets went on the fritz.
Working passengers began lining up their laptops to share the power from a couple of working outlets particularly the reporters who urgently needed to prepare their articles to transmit during a quick refueling stop in England.
But when Cheney said his iPod needed to be recharged, it took precedent above all else and dominated one precious outlet for several hours. The vice president's press staff intervened so a reporter could use the outlet for 15 minutes to charge a dead laptop, but then the digital music device was plugged back in.
That way, Cheney got his press coverage and his music, too.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airforcetwo; ap; assininepress; cheney; ipod; nedrapickler; pickler; suprisevisit; whining
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To: kevkrom
If it's so bad for the reporters, why do they even go at all? It's not like they're going to report on what actually happened anyway; they're just going to make up whatever it takes to slam the administration. They could do that just as easily from their favorite gay fetish club, ala Jayson Blair.
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posted on
12/21/2005 2:58:28 PM PST
by
CFC__VRWC
("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
To: kristinn
Gee Nedra now you know what is was like for me to travel for the last 23 years of my life! YOu have one 5 hour flight in a military cargo plane and are whining like a little stuck b*tch.
Well tough Shiite lady. I rode in jump seats for up to 19 hours on flights all over the world doing my duty so you can whine about the VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES flying in comfort while you freeze your little knickers off.
Pardon me if I don;t get my panties all in a wad over your plight.
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posted on
12/21/2005 2:58:41 PM PST
by
commish
(Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)
To: furquhart
I don't think SJ would approve.
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posted on
12/21/2005 2:59:25 PM PST
by
Nasty McPhilthy
(Those who beat their swords into plow shears….will plow for those who don’t.)
To: crazyhorse691
Sounds good to me. Duct tape to the wings!
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posted on
12/21/2005 2:59:35 PM PST
by
OldFriend
(The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
To: kristinn
Hey if I was the Vice President of the USA, I'd sure as heck want to fly in comfort too!!
To: GeorgiaDawg32
duct tape hell..remember "flight of the phoenix" with jimmy stewart?? let them just hang on and hope for the best..:)
By duct taping the little skunks you control when they may deplane. All for their safety, of course:-)
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:00:21 PM PST
by
crazyhorse691
(Diplomacy doesn't work when seagulls rain on your parade. A shotgun and umbrella does.)
To: kristinn
I wonder if Nedra's trips on Theresa Heinz's G5 have been terribly uncomfortable?
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:01:32 PM PST
by
jw777
To: kristinn
Poor babies, the VP should have dumped their sorry arses off in a remote US combat zone for a Christmas in Afghanistan. If our troops can handle it, why not the same for the tough and prissy LMSM?
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:01:49 PM PST
by
Ursus arctos horribilis
("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
To: kristinn
I guess these geniuses have never heard of one of these...
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:02:51 PM PST
by
gridlock
(eliminate perverse incentives)
To: Ursus arctos horribilis
Frickin libs...Thanks for telling the world about the portable second in command pod!
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:03:36 PM PST
by
Wristpin
("The Yankees have decided to buy every player in Baseball....")
To: kristinn
Nedra Pickler? Should be Nit Picker!
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:04:23 PM PST
by
Bommer
(Christmas is in your heart, not WalMart!)
To: kristinn
You can imagine that the "silver bullet" was loaded with communication and sound insulation gear. The Stone Age Press just sinks further into the tarpits of histoir! Next time let the broad play which parachute has a parachute at 20,000'.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:09:02 PM PST
by
bray
(Merry Christmas Iraq)
To: kristinn
Did the Pickle ever complain about albore's accommodations?
rhetorical question
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:11:30 PM PST
by
mombonn
(¡Viva Bush/Cheney!)
To: kristinn
Absolutely normal executive quarters on those noisy AF long range cargo birds.
To: crazyhorse691
The reporters should have been duct taped to the wings.What a waste of duct tape.
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:14:25 PM PST
by
mombonn
(¡Viva Bush/Cheney!)
To: Nasty McPhilthy
Steve Jobs is a great businessman.
Right now the iPod sells great, but not all across the market. And, I think, it ought to. The damned things are awesome. I have one and I love it as much as life itself.
Well, maybe not quite to that degree - but damned close.
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:14:53 PM PST
by
furquhart
(God is not dead)
To: kristinn
Nedra, While of course none of us here are one of the ubiquitously brilliant progressive liberal scribblers, but if we were national corespondents on the way to Baghdad Iraq, why we would pack an extra battery or two. That's just us morons in flyover country though.
/S
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:16:15 PM PST
by
RJL
To: RJL
Not to mention if she needed power to write these 2 paragraphs of tripe she should not been allowed on.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:17:53 PM PST
by
bray
(Merry Christmas Iraq)
To: kristinn
Glad to hear the presstitutes are being paid fairly for their services.
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:22:58 PM PST
by
WorkingClassFilth
(The problem with being a 'big tent' Party is that the clowns are seated with the paying customers.)
To: kristinn
Boo freakin who who who...
If I was in charge, those whazoo apertures of the press would get their reporter's notebook (as in paper...) and a pencil or pen. They could write all they wanted, and call their desk and dictate the story when they got to a phone...kind of like the good old days...
The Press Corps...on their way to becoming the Press Corpse...
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posted on
12/21/2005 3:23:34 PM PST
by
Keith in Iowa
(Happy Holidays? No thanks. I'm having a Merry Christmas instead.)
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