{"id":3296,"date":"2011-09-05T11:59:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-05T18:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2011-09-05T12:00:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-05T19:00:20","slug":"cheney-i-kept-%e2%80%9clouie-louie%e2%80%9d-lyrics-safe-after-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=3296","title":{"rendered":"Cheney: I Kept \u201cLouie, Louie\u201d Lyrics Safe After 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cheney-little.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cheney-little.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cheney-little\" width=\"148\" height=\"223\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cheney-little.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/cheney-little-99x150.jpg 99w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/conchapman.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/04\/cheney-i-kept-louie-louie-lyrics-safe-after-911\/\">Gerbil News Network<\/a> shares a poignant excerpt from former Vice President <strong>Dick Cheney<\/strong>&#8216;s new autobiography.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON, D.C.  Making the rounds of Sunday political talk shows to promote his new book \u201cIn My Time,\u201d former Vice President Dick Cheney stood by his story that he was moved to a secure, undisclosed location following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, in order to protect the \u201cdirty\u201d version of the lyrics to \u201cLouie Louie\u201d for national security reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen that song came out I\u2013-like a lot of other kids\u2013-spent hours with my ear up to a cheap Radio Shack speaker, trying to decipher lyrics that I thought would unlock the meaning of life,\u201d Cheney said on Meet the Press.  \u201cI never thought that four and a half decades later Islamofascists who can\u2019t get laid in their own country would threaten a song that has brought so much joy to so many horny young people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conchapman.wordpress.com\/2011\/09\/04\/cheney-i-kept-louie-louie-lyrics-safe-after-911\/\">Read the rest of this excerpt &#8211; RIGHT NOW!<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gerbil News Network shares a poignant excerpt from former Vice President Dick Cheney&#8216;s new autobiography. WASHINGTON, D.C. Making the rounds of Sunday political talk shows to promote his new book \u201cIn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,2,22,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-kingsmen","category-louie-universe","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3296\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}