Electrical problems caused the tv in the plane not to operate. Vice President Dick SnaggleTooth Cheney ordered the pilot to stop and fix it, saying……I NEED MY FOX TV! The Vice President was feeling a bit farklempt after being made to wait 36 hours by his ole pal Howard, and as Rumsfeld would say, gee golly wiz, all those protesters! He needed a quick fix to boost his enormous ego and he needed Fox TV to get it!

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney, who visited Asia-Pacific allies Japan and Australia last week, left Singapore on Sunday afternoon after his plane underwent minor repairs and refueled.

“This was the pre-planned, scheduled fuel stop,” said Cheney’s spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride. “We were not diverted,” she added, following a comment by Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard that Cheney’s plane had been diverted to Singapore because of a problem.

McBride said there had been an issue with the electricity on the plane. Because of that, “a call was placed back to Sydney with the status,” she said, adding the electrical problem did not cut off Cheney’s ability to communicate with the rest of the world.

The plane, which left Sydney’s international airport at about 9 a.m. on Sunday (5 p.m. EST (2200 GMT) Saturday), arrived at Singapore’s Paya Lebar air base at about 2 p.m. Singapore time (0600 GMT), and took off again nearly two hours later.

Cheney did not get off the plane in Singapore.

“The small mechanical problem has been fixed,” a U.S. embassy spokeswoman in Singapore said.

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