Cheney Criticized for Attire at Auschwitz Ceremony

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney raised eyebrows on Friday for wearing an olive-drab parka, hiking boots and knit ski cap to represent the United States at a solemn ceremony remembering the liberation of Auschwitz.

Other leaders at the event in Poland on Thursday marking the 60th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, such as French President Jacques Chirac and Russian President Vladimir Putin, wore dark, formal overcoats and dress shoes or boots.

"The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower," Robin Givhan, The Washington Post's fashion writer, wrote in the newspaper's Friday editions.

Between the somber, dark-coated leaders at the outdoor ceremony sat Cheney, resplendent in a green parka embroidered with his name and featuring a fur-trimmed hood, the laced brown boots and a knit ski cap reading "Staff 2001."

"And, indeed, the vice president looked like an awkward boy amid the well-dressed adults," Givhan wrote.

Britain's Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph newspapers also both noted that Cheney had opted for casual attire.

The Post's Givhan said Cheney might have been hoping to avoid the cold weather in Oswiecim, but noted he had worn a dark overcoat and no hat at all at another recent winter occasion -- his own swearing-in ceremony on Inauguration Day on Jan. 20 in snow-dusted Washington.

"The vice president might have been warm in his parka, ski cap and hiking boots," Givhan said. "But they had the unfortunate effect of suggesting he was more concerned with his own comfort than the reason for braving the cold at all."

Cheney's staff had no comment on the story.


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[BigBDrugStores]

at least he was worm. it looked cold as fuck

[Sikotic™]

LMAO He stands out like a sore thumb.

[Suga Foot]

muthafucka looks like he's representing Canada lol

[mauzip]

i think how he dressed is very disrespectful to every prisoner of auschwitz...

[7even]

LOL.. akward as fuck.

[*Jamal*]

LOL he looks pimped out with that fur collar...

[Don Jacob]

big deal...lol

[white Boy]

^ cosign, but he looks goofy

[Don Rizzle]

i think how he dressed is very disrespectful to every prisoner of auschwitz...

[Woodrow]

Wow. Iraq is going to be voting for the first time in 30 years, 200,000+ people are dead in East Asia, and people are up in arms because Cheney wore a PARKA?  It was cold. He's an old man with heart problems. He wore a parka to an outdoor ceremony in the snow. Deal with it. I'd rather have him wear a parka than those designer fur jackets the ardent european socialists were wearing

Look at you bunch of bitches acting like fashon columnists. Discussing the fashion sense of the people attending the memorial disrespects the memorial more than the actual fashion.

[King Tech Quadafi]

LOL....Don rizzle and Mauzipper, why yall gettin so sensitive? Lol.

[mauzip]

I'm not getting sensitive. Let's say if your mother dies and at the funeral everybody is dressed in green, except one person who's dressed in blue, wouldn't you think that's disrespectful? We should never forget what has happened in Auschwitz and other concentration camps.

[Woodrow]

I'm not getting sensitive. Let's say if your mother dies and at the funeral everybody is dressed in green, except one person who's dressed in blue, wouldn't you think that's disrespectful? We should never forget what has happened in Auschwitz and other concentration camps.

I think you're disrespecting the memory of Auschwitz more by talking about what people wore at the memorial.

[Ant]

I'm not getting sensitive. Let's say if your mother dies and at the funeral everybody is dressed in green, except one person who's dressed in blue, wouldn't you think that's disrespectful? We should never forget what has happened in Auschwitz and other concentration camps.

I think you're disrespecting the memory of Auschwitz more by talking about what people wore at the memorial.

I thinks never matter in real debate.  What is true is that Cheney was the only one there wearing a ski cap and a parka with his name written on its back flap..  People can judge for themselves if its appropriate.  But what is more disgraceful is our bigotry pretending to pay respects to the atrocities of auschwitz when this administration is responsible for their own list of similiar atrocities including the deaths and dismemberments of over 100,000 iraqis.  As well as the establishment of torture prisons in afghanistan, iraq, and guantanmo.

The real irony here, is that the individual who is most out of place in apperance is the most out of place in character as well.