Friday Fun: But nothing about M&Ms, brown or otherwise
In the tradition of rock band Van Halen's insistence on backstage bowls of M&Ms with all the brown M&Ms removed, The Smoking Gun is proud to present Vice President Dick Cheney's "concert rider".
For context, there's nothing outrageous here, particularly compared to some contract riders I've seen for some pop-music performers. When one early-1980s pop flash-in-the-pan played at my college, for example, their contract rider specified that we would provide a certain minimum number of condoms. I'm pretty sure we ignored that.
The all-TVs-tuned-to-Fox-News part doesn't surprise me. What does is the specific insistence upon caffeine-free Diet Sprite. I thought all Sprite was caffeine-free. But then, the vice president and I, for some odd reason, do not travel in the same circles, so I could be mistaken.
