Wonk'd: Dick Cheney Enjoys Movie About Evil Oil Business

Wonk'd

Dick Cheney Enjoys Movie About Evil Oil Business

This week, Trent Lott, BJ Novak, Gen. George Casey and Dick Cheney were all spotted being various degrees of famous-for-D.C. at various places by our spies and operatives. Voyeuristic fun, as always, is after the jump.

Seen someone we’ve heard of somewhere in or near the district? Tell us about it in an email, with the subject line “Wonk’d.”

Over the past month I’ve spotted former Senator Lott two or three times in the food court of National Place (13th & F NW) eating lunch. Just saw him today, and he definitely sticks out among the crowd of mid-level bureaucrats and office occupants that normally eat there. I’ve heard that he’s been seen there meeting with his new partner, Senator Breaux.
*BJ Novak at Tryst in Adams Morgan on Friday afternoon around 1 pm with a couple friends.
Now, I don’t normally consider seeing a famous or infamous person in a congressional office building Wonk’d-worthy, but former Iraq commander and current Army grand poobah General George Casey (with full entourage and honor guard) waltzing into Dirksen after 5:30 p.m. seemed an oddity worthy of note. Also, he is very tiny.
I saw There Will Be Blood at the Georgetown Loews last night. It’s a film about oil, evil, greed, and hypocrisy. So who else was in our theater but Dick Cheney. I wonder if watching Daniel Plainview was like looking into a mirror…

Read More:

5:03 PM on Fri Feb 15 2008
2,950 views
13 comments

Comments

by SayItWithWookies at 05:09 PM on 02/15/08
Reply by Email

*

Dick Cheney goes out to see movies?! Why doesn't he just kidnap all the actors and make them re-create the entire movie in some elaborate underground soundstage? If it's good enough for Kim Jong Il, it's gotta be good enough for our Vice-President-for-Life.
by thejives at 05:10 PM on 02/15/08
Reply by Email

*

Like looking into a mirror? Are you kidding? After the movie, I bet they had to send the jizz mopper to Cheney's seat.
by D.O.D. at 05:13 PM on 02/15/08
Reply by Email

*

That would sorta be like seeing Harvey Waxman at a MLB ball game. You know....this guy

[www.theweeklydonut.com]
by southerndem at 05:18 PM on 02/15/08
Reply by Email

*

@D.O.D.: Henry Waxman
by southerndem at 05:18 PM on 02/15/08
Reply by Email

*

BJ Novak at Tryst is a good one. Kudos to whoever sent that in.
by el topo at 05:19 PM on 02/15/08
Reply by Email

*

@thejives: Which is also necessary after Cheney looks into literal mirrors. Of course, he has to use a special high-tech kind of mirror, because the kind that you and I use will not reflect his image.
by PROUD PAULTARD at 05:27 PM on 02/15/08
Reply by Email

*

@el topo: I heard he had a special movie-theater mirror designed by pee-wee herman so he could watch himself with himself
by Harbls at 06:16 PM on 02/15/08
Reply by Email

*

Afterwards, Cheney was overheard muttering, "But all the reviews said it was depressing..."
by Rottenart at 06:51 PM on 02/15/08
Reply by Email

*

After I left the theater, I could have sworn the movie should have been named There Will Be Halliburton.
by Jumpin at 09:06 PM on 02/15/08
Reply by Email

*

When a Republican says he will drink your milkshake be wery, wery careful.
by Baiowulf at 05:54 AM on 02/16/08
Reply by Email

*

Everybody knows Daniel Plainview was a Ron Paul man.
by Stealth Liberal at 01:43 PM on 02/16/08
Reply by Email

*

I suppose the only reason Cheney went out to see a movie was because it was dark out, and dark in the theater. Everyone knows vampires and evil-dictator-types can't be out in the sunshine.
by Rottenart at 05:09 PM on 02/16/08
Reply by Email

*

@Jumpin: "That's a pretty fucking good milkshake. I don't know if it's worth five dollars but it's pretty fucking good."