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The picture the White House doesn't want you to see. There's no sense of humor at all in the White House, as evidenced by this story (Associated Press via FindLaw):

An Internet lampoon of Vice President Dick Cheney's wife is no laughing matter at the White House, which has asked a satirist to remove pictures of her - complete with red clown noses - from his Web site.

But the New York Civil Liberties Union struck back Wednesday on behalf of John A. Wooden, 31, threatening a lawsuit to protect his First Amendment rights to parody the White House and Bush officials on his site, whitehouse.org.

The official White House site is whitehouse.gov.

Cheney counsel David S. Addington warned Wooden's Chickenhead Productions Inc. that Lynne V. Cheney's name and pictures - altered to show her with a red clown's nose and a missing tooth - could not be used to make money without her consent, and asked Wooden to delete the photos and "fictitious biographical statement about her."

Instead, Wooden cautioned Web site visitors that the vice president "wishes you to be aware ... that some/all of the biographic information contained on this PARODY page about Mrs. Cheney may not actually be true."

Here's the deal: We'll remove the picture of his wife from this site on the day Dick Cheney releases the minutes of all six secret energy task force meetings between his and Enron's staff in early 2001.

If the GAO can no longer sue Cheney for his secrets, maybe we can shame the coward. Put Lynne Cheney's parody picture on your blog. And join the ACLU.

UPDATE: More from Reuters/FindLaw here.

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