Cenk Uygur
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Is This Republican an American Hero?
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March 3, 2013
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3:18Now Playing"Since leaving public office, Dick Cheney has made the rounds on cable TV and did a stint in the hospital for a heart transplant. But one congressman suggests there's an even more unpleasant destination awaiting the former vice president: the firey blazes of h-e-double-hockey-sticks.
Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) said as much during a Saturday speech, according to a video that Talking Points Memo unearthed. Jones suggested that Cheney's support for the Iraq war warranted repayment in the hereafter."*
Rep. Walter Jones is not a liberal by any means, but he does something few do- admit to mistakes. He's coming out saying that the Iraq War was a mistake and that he was wrong to support it. He's also apparently in favor of getting money out of politics. Has this conservative earned Cenk Uygur's respect?
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