Not recommended. In these times of careless - - and often deliberate - - shredding of truth, recent history must be scrupulously presented to the public. For this reason, I am not recommending Vice, Adam McKay’s (The Big Short) multiple-Oscar-nominated story of Dick Cheney’s governmental career. In The Big Short, MacKay could riff on (mostly) made-up characters, but Vice gives us an Anchorman cartoon of a real-life villain, covering up Cheney’s true mendacity. Intercuts of bizarre images (beating hearts) and plot gimmicks (dead narrator, Shakespearian pillow talk) suggest some sort of Hunter Thompson surrealism, but there’s nothing gonzo about this Dick. Further, there is no evidence that the late Justice Antonin Scalia believed "unitary executive theory" applied to any broader presidential powers than the specific way he and President Ford opposed the Freedom of Information Act. The theory that if the president does it . . .it’s legal, awaited the law firm of Giuliani and Trump.
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