Reality Check

Fantasy:

Tina Brown is at it again. She has nothing to say about the geopolitical realities we face in the world today. But, she does argue that it's all the fault of men. Here's her take on Saddam: "Macho is even more central to Saddam than to George Bush. When [Dan] Rather asked Saddam if he felt competitive with Osama bin Laden's owning the Arab street, Saddam replied, 'Jealousy is for women.' It's the kind of line W likes to come up with. ('And peace is for [expletive],' Dick Cheney would growl in assent.)" Huh? The truth, of course, is that the president has never said anything remotely that misogynistic, and anyone who knows him even vaguely will recognize that she simply doesn't have a clue about the current White House. And Cheney simply doesn't use words like that either. Ever. - Andrew Sullivan, Washington Times

Reality:

Though he's done a decent job of hiding it in this election cycle, Bush has been known to use salty language. At the Republican National Convention in 1988, he was asked by a Hartford Courant reporter about what he and his father talked about when they weren't talking about politics.

"Pussy," Bush replied. -- Jake Tapper, Salon.com

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It was a decision about which George W. Bush, among others, apparently felt less than enthusiastic. According to a recent account in Salon, he told an interviewer in 1994 that Yale "went downhill since they admitted women." -- Carter Wiseman, Yale Alumni Magazine

But it's nice to know Sully hears Dick Cheney's voice in his head 24/7.