Dr. Ben Marble in '08!

Let's take a walk down memory lane, to about a year or so ago on the senate floor. U.S. Senators including the chamber's president, one Richard Cheney, gathered for a photograph while the Senate was out of session.

An exchange occurred between Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Cheney himself regarding the no-bid contracts Halliburton seemed to be enjoying over in Iraq (this was before Halliburton was connecting with overcharging the government in connection with "misplacing" $8.8 billion).
It was then that one of Cheney's pace makers overheated, and he told a ranking Senator on the floor - in front of everyone - to go fuck himself.

It was only a matter of time before Cheney got a taste of his own medicine...and payback came at a really hilarious time.

There Dick Cheney was over a year later, conducting an interview on live cable news down in Mississippi, trying to cover for himself (on vacation in Wyoming throughout Katrina and most of it's aftermath), for W (on vacation throughout Katrina and several days thereafter), as well his their friends over at FEMA.

Then, all of the sudden, just off camera, as if voice of God was speaking to Dick, you could clearly hear, "Go fuck yourself Mr. Cheney. Go fuck yourself."

The tone wasn't threatening, or even angry. It was actually really polite (note the use of "Mr. Cheney" and the resistance of the temptation to do a million different things with Richard's nickname), and quite calm. It was as if someone was saying, "Nice to meet you Mr. Cheney," or "Talk to you soon Mr. Cheney."

The reporter heard it too, and even interrupted by saying, "are you getting a lot of that?" Cheney just awkwardly laughed it off and began to say that the person in question might have been "friends with John...oh, nevermind."

It is now known that the voice was not that of God, but someone who is being praised across the web for his heckling -the man behind the curtain? Dr. Ben Marble, an emergency room physician.

Cheney later went on to say he wasn't too concerned because Bush administration hecklers are in their last throes.

Well - my good friend Doug shared with me today that now you too can relive this momentous occasion of righteousness with your very own "Go Fuck Yourself Mr. Cheney" t-shirts, mugs, notebooks and hats by clicking here.