CBC's airs an Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney

Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney (at google video) give this a couple of minutes to download, it's worth it.  If you can't wait for the QuickTime progressive download to start, you can right or option click it, download and watch it later.* This is quite a piece on Dick Cheney, as only another country could have done.  In this case it comes from CBC's 'Fifth Estate' Why is it that our own media is so watered down that in the US only 'fake news' programs like the Daily Show are able to supply the kind of strong critiques a democracy needs in order to understand it's own behavior? Why do we need other countries to do this? While the Sunday talk shows at least let their guests dig their own graves right up there in front of us, they still don't have the guts to be less than polite... lest they lose access to those very same guests. Kudos to the Canadian Broadcasting Network! Wish I could get them on my cable system. At least Sinclair isn't running the show here in CA. If you run Bit Torrent, you can also get it from here: Also check out this interesting piece on Dick Cheney at the Project for the Old American Century which looks just like the site it mocks:  "Project for the New American Century" a conservative site. And they have some terrific videos too:  Have a look here at their downloads page. *Some people have had trouble downloading this, it is  H U G E  and it takes a while to load up so that it will play smoothly.  I've twice tried to re-encode it at 320 by 240, but it created too many artifacts to be watchable and took forever. If anyone has an MPEG2 version, please either provide a link or send it to me on a DVD-R at: Undergroundclips.com PO Box 460 669 San Francisco, CA 94146-0669

Comments

[Lamont Cranston]

the Torrent isnt working for me

[Democracy]

This file will work with the mplayer that is is linked above. An easier method than going to the command line prompt, is just to right click on the file and select "open with", you will then have to click on browse and locate where you extracted mplayer to. Then you are all set and it will work. I found it much easier to download here than off of suprnova.org, but whatever you do it is definitely worth watching.

[Anonymous Coward]

If you guys are still experiencing problems with this media file then you should search on suprnova.org for "dick cheney". Here are two of the search results, one seems to be a SVCD and the other an MPEG

http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2775/Unauthorized Bio of Dick Cheney CBC SVCD.torrent
http://66.90.75.92/suprnova//torrents/2773/cbc--the-fifth-estate--2004-10-06--unauthorized-biography-of-dick-cheney-mpg.torrent

[Lucien]

Surprisingly, I can't get this to play on my PowerBook with 10.3.5. Anyone have any thoughts? (I get a similar "the required compressor wasn't found").

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh and the "F" letter makes the video fullscreen and "Q" quits mplayer. Forgot to mention that in my previous post.

[Anonymous Coward]

This is a response to Jonathan Shore's question. I don't know about Windows XP but I played this on 2000 Professional using the Windows version of Mplayer. It is a command line program but it plays just about every media format. I highly recommend it.

Grab it from here.... http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/win32-beta/MPlayer-mingw32-1.0pre5.zip

Extract the mplayer folder in the above mentioned zip file into C:\ then click "Start" and "Run" then type in "cmd". In the cmd.exe window type.... C:\mplayer\mplayer.exe "D:\The Fifth Estate - The Unauthorized Biography Of Dick Cheney [digitaldistractions].avi" or substitute the location of the file with where you are storing it.

While viewing it with mplayer, the right cursor keyboard arrow rewinds the video a bit, the left cursor forwards it and SPACE pauses it.

Hope this helps.

[Jonathan Shore]

Can't get this to play on windows XP. QT on windows does not have the xvid codec. Have the xvid codec but QT doesn't recognize.

Is this available in another format (such as real)?

[Anonymous Coward]

I live in Toronto and I've already watched this documentary twice on CBC. Thanks for the torrent link. I was going to go through the hassle of encoding it myself and then try to spread it around online.

For the most part I enjoyed watching it but I felt that certain things could have been rephrased. One line sticks out in my memory and I'm paraphrasing the narrator here:

"For now this is Dick Cheney's world and we just live in it".

That might as well be true but in my opinion it would have been better to tone that down and let the viewer deduce that for themselves. Just for the record I do feel that we live in a world where the Neocon agenda seems to be the law of the land.

I concur with Jon - CBC is a great example of publicly funded television done right. CBC's news coverage seems to be pretty "fair and balanced" where as U.S. news channels take the word "bias" to a completely new level. It was appalling to see all the major news networks in the U.S. bend over backwards for the current administration by acting as complete cheerleaders during the Iraq invasion. That in itself was the real "Shock and Awe" campaign, for me anyway.

And now this.... http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22788-2004Oct10?language=printer

Four more wars.

[Jon]

I'm up here in Vancouver ... watching it as I type this comment.

Can't imagine that it would run in the US ... it's (of course to my eyes) thoughtful and balanced .. which doesn't mean that it protrays Cheney well. It portrays him as an explotive and mean power broker, but it does probe the issues thoughtfully, and seems to check the facts well.

I wish more Americans could see it. It might make a difference. Three cheers for publicly-funded television.