What? Sean Hannity wasn't available?
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 12:06AM 
Just a couple of days until the American Museum of Fly Fishing's Angler's All Presentation featuring former Vice President Dick Cheney as the keynote speaker!
We just went to the AMFF site to check on any last minute updates and we find out that warming up the stage for Dick will be former Wyoming Senator Alan Simpson, current Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi, and the former bow tie wearing, Dancing with the Stars dropout and Fox News commentator, Tucker Carlson. When you've already got Cheney as your keynote guy why not add a few of his friends?
The Wyoming Senate contingent can warm up the audience with how they helped Dick turn Wyoming's Powder River Basin into a forest of Halliburton drilling rigs and toxic alkaline holding ponds. Maybe Mr. Enzi can proudly share with the audience his 18% environmental voting record rating from the League of Conservation Voters? Tucker Carlson can then charm the crowd with how he is truly the face of the Fly Fishing Museum demographic. You know it was tough growing up as a kid whose Dad is the U.S. Ambassador to the Seychelles and with a Mom who is heiress to the Swanson Food conglomerate fortune. How many times poor Tucker had to beat up the other kids in Blue Blazers who made fun of his brother, Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson. Finally, Tucker can offer up some pointers on how not to do the Cha Cha at the next singles dance down at the yacht club.
Dear museum execs and trustees,
If you're going to defend your Cheney invite by claiming your not a political organization, you should not torpedo that defense by inviting his political allies and commentators from "news" organizations that defended his shitty environmental policies.
Watch Tucker and Begala get their heads handed to them by Jon Stewart on Crossfire... the show was cancelled soon after this exchange.
Reader Comments (28)
Yet the AMFF continues to insist that it "doesn't get involved in politics," when it has 4 guests for its annual dinner that all come from the same ideologically extreme end of the political spectrum, and who have been about as anti-conservation as one could hope for? Right.
hahaha you all make me laugh my ass off!!!! Spell checking and bitching about who's opinion is more righteous!!! Get it a rest if it doesnt pertain to conservation or other related issues my life basically stays them same and I bet yours (as in all of youguys) does as well. I fish and fish hard and nothingelse matters so long as it does not interfere. By the way I dont give 2 shits about who spelled what wrong we're not writing term papers here....
Jon Stewart = totally ruling
The AMFF = Not Ruling
Dick = Totally not ruling
Dick's dirty work on the Klamath = TOTALLY NOT FUCKING RULING
there was a time when Republicans could be, and were, environmentalists... Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act, written by a Republican. Clean Water Act, another Rep bill. Since then, the right has chosen to cast any environmental issue as some sort of left-wing, liberal, elite agenda aiming to destroy middle America (where no one lives, by the way). Republican lovers of nature, your party has been stolen from you.
Dick is and was a total and complete douchebag and if you are an angler and see that differently, you are just rationalizing.