King asks war criminal a question.

Every time I think the media can't get any worse, they do. This is astonishing - and should be a career ender. But it won't.

from Media Matters:

John King cites Human Events headline, asks Cheney, "Is the president of the United States trying to brazenly deceive the American people?"

Published Sun, Mar 15, 2009 12:51pm ET by Media Matters staff

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Balloon Juice commenter El Tiburon

Cut King some slack.

For those who don’t remember, King was the guy who grilled Bush continuously during the lead up to the invasion of the Iraq War. He confronted Bush at every chance about the claims of WMD and yellow-cake. King, almost by himself, caused the invasion to be stopped and Bush to be impeached.

It was brutal.

Now excuse me. My unicorn is pooping gold and Jennifer Love Hewitt is naked in my bed.

Sudbay: Cheney is back to lead the GOP attack on Obama

As predicted, Dick Cheney is using his CNN appearance and using CNN's host, John King, to bash the Obama administration. CNN had promised to keep the Obama administration "honest" during pre-inauguration advertising. I found that almost hysterical since CNN never kept the Bush administration honest -- especially when John King was their gung-ho White House reporter. And, King and Cheney go way back as he points out in his CNN bio:

King also contributed to CNN's Emmy-winning 2006 mid-term election coverage as well as to coverage of the 2004 presidential race, the Iraq War, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the tax-cut debates of 2001and 2003 and the war on terrorism. In 2006, he reported an hour-long special on executive authority, "Power Play." He has conducted one-on-one interviews with an array of senior officials, including President George W. Bush, first lady Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and current Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

King traveled with Cheney to the Middle East in March 2002 as the administration began to build support for confronting Saddam Hussein.

One should never expect much from John King when it comes to holding anyone from the Bush-Cheney administration accountable. That's why Cheney is on CNN with John King today. From the early reports CNN is already pushing out in advance of the broadcast, Cheney is on an Obama-bashing mission:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney told CNN's John King Sunday that he believed President Obama's decision to eliminate the use of many of the most controversial interrogation practices used under the former administration had put the country at risk.

Asked whether he thought those moves had made the United States less safe, Cheney said he did. "I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoy, of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11," he said on State of the Union. "I think it's a great success story. It was done legally, it was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles…"

Obama campaigned against those practices, said Cheney, "and now he's making some choices that in my mind will raise the risk to the American people of another attack."

Actually, it's probably good for Obama to have Cheney attack him. Cheney and George Bush are responsible for the massive financial mess Obama inherited. Having Cheney out there talking -- and putting his face in front of the American people again -- just reminds us of that.

Last time Cheney reared his ugly head was when he announced his endorsement of McCain. Obama had a lot of fun with that:

Yglesias: The Cheney Factor

If I were Dick Cheney, I’d be laying low thanking my lucky stars that I’m not on trial for war crimes not going on television to talk smack about the new administration. But talking smack it is. It’s really remarkable when you think about it that anyone would listen to Cheney on the subject of national security. His administration was by far the least successful in American history in terms of preventing international terrorists from murdering Americans. Also by far the least successful in American history in terms of preventing international terrorists from murdering NATO allies. And the military action his administration pursued in response to the terrorist attack we suffered under their watch has come to be mired in problems, teetering on the brink of failure, almost entirely thanks to a second—but completely unnecessary—war his administration chose to undertake in favor of successfully completing the first one.

Meanwhile, during this time hostile nations such as North Korea and Iran have become bigger proliferation threats than ever!