Damn it, if you can't get right with the fashionistas of the world, I don't want you being my VP. This is just a downright disgrace, and I for one am embarassed to be an American today. I mean seriously...OLIVE GREEN?!?! What were you thinking???
Friday, January 28, 2005 · Last updated 6:12 a.m. PT
Cheney's green parka and boots stand out
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OSWIECIM, Poland -- Vice President Dick Cheney's utilitarian hooded parka and boots stood out amid the solemn formality of a ceremony commemorating the liberation of Nazi death camps, raising eyebrows among the fashion-conscious.
Cheney replaced the zipped-to-the-neck green parka he sported in Thursday's blowing snow and freezing wind with a more traditional black coat - red tie and gray scarf showing underneath - for his tour of Auschwitz on Friday.
Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan described Cheney's look at the deeply moving 60th anniversary service as "the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower."
"Cheney stood out in a sea of black-coated world leaders because he was wearing an olive drab parka with a fur-trimmed hood," Givhan wrote in Friday's Post, also mocking Cheney's knit ski cap embroidered with the words "Staff 2001" and his brown, lace-up hiking boots. "The vice president looked like an awkward child amid the well-dressed adults," she said.
Thank goodness the media is reporting on the stories that really matter.
Jan-28-2005 18:54
Dervish
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Lol but it does show a huge lack of respect doesn't it?
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Jan-28-2005 19:34
ResonantDrag
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anyone have a metrosexual joke?
but seriously, give the guy a break. he has a bad heart.. a bad, dark, evil heart
Jan-28-2005 19:39
Shakka
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Originally posted by Dervish
Lol but it does show a huge lack of respect doesn't it?
How so? And if it shows any lack of respect, how do you quantify it as a huge lack of respect?
IMO, it just goes to show that the media will grapple on to any little shred of gossip that it thinks is good for a story. Especially if it casts the administration in a negative light.
Looked to me like the guy was trying to stay warm. Maybe he just didn't get the memo on the dress code.
Jan-28-2005 20:34
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Wait, he wore a cap that said "staff" to Auschwitz?
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Jan-28-2005 20:56
Yoepus
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Isn't the lady right next to him wearing a brown coat
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Jan-28-2005 21:31
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Lol but it does show a huge lack of respect doesn't it?
It would have been worse if he grew a little mustache for the occasion.
Anyways Cheneys a fool no matter what he does.
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Jan-28-2005 21:32
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Isn't the lady right next to him wearing a brown coat
is it not black?
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Jan-28-2005 21:34
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I think it does show a lack of respect (maybe not huge....) but still he's representing the United States. If that was a British minister acting so casually at such an immensely sensitive and poignant ceremony it would be noticed.
Wearing a cheapo hat (as occrider pointed out "staff".... tactful) and a military marked jacket. You couldn't write that kind of stuff, no photoshopping required. The only way you could make it worse would to add a Nazi armband.
It showed a lack of thought and a lack of care and understanding of the gravity of the ceremony. And painted the picture of "another ignorant American".
Remember what this is about. If he turned up to a memorial pertaining to recent war deaths in Iraq like that would it be ok? No it wouldn't, is it any different? Yes... but only in one way the number and kind of people involved (women and children whole families, millions of them). Time has noting to do with it, and if it does then we forget the lessons it should teach us.
And he showed either a huge lack of understanding or a huge lack of respect. Either or it was a faux pas of the highest order really (say dress isn't important if you like but it is, it shows how much you attach to a situation).
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Jan-28-2005 21:38
wolverine16
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Cheney's coat looks very nice*
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Jan-28-2005 21:39
Fir3start3r
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Its a bloody good job Prince Harry wasn't invited to any Holocaust memorials!!!
No but his father told him he has to go (both Harry and the younger son) and visit at some point...
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