Here we go again. Every time a deeply flawed public official dies, the mainstream media unleash their pre-written, pre-taped obituaries that gloss over all the terrible things the deceased did in public life.

This week’s example: former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served in the role for eight years during the disastrous George W. Bush presidency.

Cheney’s record is filled with so much death, destruction, corruption, lying, and scandal that it’s hard to summarize here. Despite that record, which many human rights advocates argued should have landed him in the Hague, the Log Cabin Republicans praised Cheney during his time in office as a proponent of same-sex marriage and of repealing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The truth is a bit more complicated.

Let’s start with the war crimes.

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