My piece on the "Fuck you Mr. Cheney" guy on Wired News

Yesterday I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Ben Marble, the emergency room doctor and indie rocker who told Vice President Dick Cheney to go fuck himself live on CNN. You can read the story on Wired News.

Among the more amusing factoids around this event is the fact that Marble was wearing a Mr. T tshirt when he had his little encounter. He'd actually flipped off Cheney's motorcade earlier when it was allowed to pass through a checkpoint that he and other residents of his devastated neighborhood were required to spend 20 minutes going around. Marble said his outburst was spontaneous and that he hadn't realized the event was being broadcast live. He did manage to hide his recording of the encounter before getting arrested and is now selling it and downloads of it on eBay. I asked him if there was anything else he'd like to say to Mr. Cheney, and he said: "Where's Osama bin Laden?"

OpEdNews has also posted a fairly detailed piece on the incident awhile back, which you can read here.