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Cheney to Leahy: 'Go F**k Yourself'

Friday June 25, 2004
Cheney to Leahy: Go Fuck Yourself Vice President Dick Cheney blurted out an obscenity at Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy during a testy exchange on the Senate floor. The incident occurred after Leahy harangued Cheney about profiteering by Halliburton and President Bush's judicial nominees. According to the Washington Post, the exchange ended when Cheney offered some crass advice: "Go f**k yourself." The Washington Times put it this way: "Cheney...responded with a barnyard epithet, urging Mr. Leahy to perform an anatomical sexual impossibility."

"On the Senate floor, Dick Cheney flipped out and told Senator Pat Leahy to go F-himself. Can you believe that? Aren't these the same guys trying to fine Howard Stern for bad language?"—Jay Leno

Political cartoonist Charles Pugsley Fincher offers his take on the exchange in his Illustrated Daily Scribble.

See Also: Cheney Heckled on Live TV, Told to 'Go F**k Yourself'

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February 3, 2009 at 8:42 pm
(1) hooha says:

That is one infamous quote that will be remembered for a very long time.

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