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The below is a Salon premium article. Anyone have access to the whole
thing?
Time magazine loves Dick Cheney. Americans aren't so sure The newsweekly
gushes over the V.P. and the Bush administration in its year-end issue
-- ignoring its own poll showing a major erosion in public support for
the White House.
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By Eric Boehlert
Jan. 3, 2003 | Time magazine's year-end double issue, on newsstands
until Monday, is bursting with praise for the White House, and
specifically Vice President Dick Cheney, who receives the red-carpet
treatment from the newsweekly. In the loving hands of Time writers, the
reclusive V.P. even manages to upstage Cynthia Cooper, Sherron Watkins,
and Coleen Rowley, the trio of whistle-blowers who appear on the issue's
cover.
The 9,700-word avalanche of Cheney puffery is composed of one long
essay, another biographical profile, and a chat with his wife. (Despite
the big-time rollout, Time writers didn't land any on-the-record face
time with Cheney.) There's also a nifty photo essay at Time.com
chronicling Cheney's all-American life: There he is as a Little Leaguer,
attending his high school prom, etc.
The centerpiece of Time's package is an essay by Nancy Gibbs that
trumpets the Bush-Cheney relationship as "Partnership of the Year." A
gauzy, heroic painting of the two men takes up almost a full two-page
spread: below it, the lead runs, "This war has two faces, one a promise,
one a growl." You'd think the Time editors and writers had collectively
stumbled into a time machine set for 1944. The theme of the package, put
together by no fewer than 12 magazine writers and reporters, is that
Cheney, with his hard work, discipline, smarts and loyalty ("steady and
stalwart") has become "the most powerful deputy ever" -- and has
transformed our president into a much more effective leader.
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/01/03/time/index_np.html
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