Fly fishers to Cheney: Go jump in a lake-- "It's as if the Holocaust museum held a dinner to honor [Nazi war criminal] Klaus Barbie."

By GottaLaff

The Nation of Dick is none too popular with the fly fishers. One might even say they want him gone, hook line and sinker:

When the American Museum of Fly Fishing hooked Dick Cheney for a fund-raising dinner, critics howled that they should throw him back.

Cheney - whose Secret Service code name was "Angler" - spearheaded energy policy at the White House and bears blame, detractors say, for the Bush administration's poor environmental record.

"The entire fly fishing community is appalled and disgusted," said Ted Williams, conservation editor at Fly Rod & Reel magazine.

So is the entire nation, but I digress.

"We all need money, but to apply green lipstick to this Darth Vader of fish and wildlife is whoring - it's grotesque," Williams said. "It's as if the Holocaust museum held a dinner to honor [Nazi war criminal] Klaus Barbie."

Whoring, huh? Seems ol' Dickface has waded in to familiar waters. (pun intended) I was going to include a quip about a "wet fly", but thought the better of it.

Steve Wright, a former commissioner of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, blasted the invitation, calling Cheney "one of the great enemies of healthy fish and wildlife conservation in the U.S. over the last eight years."

Wright could have easily left out the words "of healthy fish and wildlife conservation" and still remained accurate.

Cathi Comar, executive director of the Vermont-based museum, said some of the critics "sent me nasty e-mails, calling me names, pretty inappropriate names, I have to say."

One board member also resigned in protest.

The former Veep gets invited to a fundraiser and members are so aghast, so furious, that they compare him to a Nazi, and one even resigns. Wowzers. Cheney better keep an eye on his fly rod.

Still, Comar said, the museum's board supports the invitation for the fall dinner.

"Why?" you might be asking. "Why would The Big Dick still be invited?" Because he's "one of the most enthusiastic fly fishermen in the country." Still, if the Nation of Dick is smart, he'll watch his anal fin.