Dick Cheney’s IPod Monomania
10:13 pm, December 22nd, 2005,
The Associated Press has the most incredible story about Dick Cheney’s travels to Iraq and Afghanistan in a silver, cargo-plane mounted Winnebago, and the precedence the charging of his precious iPod took over all other matters.
The vice president is an iPod fan, and keeping it charged is a priority for his staff.
Normally that isn’t an issue, even when he’s flying around the world. Air Force II is equipped with outlets in each row of seats.
But when Dick Cheney was traveling home overnight Wednesday from his diplomatic mission, most of the outlets went on the fritz.
Working passengers began lining up their laptops to share the power from a couple of working outlets — particularly the reporters who urgently needed to prepare their articles to transmit during a quick refueling stop in England.
But when Cheney said his iPod needed to be recharged, it took precedent above all else and dominated one precious outlet for several hours. The vice president’s press staff intervened so a reporter could use the outlet for 15 minutes to charge a dead laptop, but then the digital music device was plugged back in.
That way, Cheney got his press coverage and his music, too.
Of all the iPod nuts I’ve met, and read and written about, this description of Cheney beats them all. In fact, the story is so preposterous, it beggars belief. But maybe it tells a lot about the man: his power, the self-absorbtion, a surprising obsession with music.
If previous reports are true, the iPod was a Christmas present from his daughters.
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well, it MAY say something about him, but don’t jump to conclusions. My guess is that, if the story is true, it was an overzealous aide bogarting the power for the VP’s iPod, not Cheney himself making the call.
Occam, on December 23rd, 2005 at 5:06 am
You know, there’s about a 99% chance Cheney had no clue he was taking outlets away from reporters. He probably handed the iPod to a staffer, said “my iPod is dead” and the staffer made the decision to prioritize it above the needs of the other passengers.
The staffer should have been fired if they bothered the US VP with a question like “We need to take an outlet away from a reporter to charge your iPod, is that okay?”
mipod, on December 23rd, 2005 at 5:52 am
i don’t like the man, but i would’ve done the same thing. the most powerful man, bush being a puppet, needs some good tunes when he’s figuring out how to screw ordinary americans out of ther civil liberities.
viva la bam
applekoolaid, on December 23rd, 2005 at 9:32 am
um.. could not the ipod share the computer’s charge via USB?
twonine, on December 23rd, 2005 at 7:01 pm
video of Cheney and his iPod
stimulator, on February 22nd, 2006 at 5:37 pm
Interesting theme have mentioned. With pleasure I shall support.
And in general, good blog
Barbara, on April 18th, 2007 at 10:43 pm