Did he?... no, he didn't...

Oh, but he did. Did he really say that... like, right to her face? On national TV?

Oh... you bet he did.

Gwen Ifill asks Dick Cheney about the AIDS epidemic in the United States. She says, "I want to talk to you about AIDS, and not about AIDS in China or Africa, but AIDS right here in this country, where black women between the ages of 25 and 44 are 13 times more likely to die of the disease than their counterparts."

What was his response? Okay, well PART of it. But look it up, folks. About 3/4 of the way through, you can check the transcripts:

DICK CHENEY: "In some parts of the world, we‘ve got the entire, sort of, productive generation has been eliminated as a result of AIDS, all except for old folks and kids— nobody to do the basic work that runs an economy."

What did Cheney say we lose when young black women are dying of AIDS? Part of our "workforce". He did not even concede that young black women dying of AIDS are PEOPLE-- vital human beings with emotions and families and hopes and dreams.

NO, no, to Cheney, they're just part of the workforce.

And notice he didn't say, "Geez, we could be losing a whole next generation of leaders and thinkers!"... no, he's more concerned that maybe there won't be enough people to put little plastic parts together in his fucking BOMB factory.

John Edwards! You sunk my Battleship!