For those of you who watched the news lately, or The Daily Show which is more accurate anyway, you probably saw the new footage wherein a voice in the background repeats Dick Cheney’s words to him (those famous 3 words he uttered on the floor of the Senate to illustrate Republican dignity in action) as Cheney is doing his standup routine in the rubble of Gulfport Mississippi to make it look like he gives a damn.

Anyway, the guy in question, one Dr. Ben Marble an ER physician, was the one who said “Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney” (he was more respectful than I would have been) and is now a bit of celebrity as this entry on The Daily Kos shows.

As he stood about 10 feet away from Cheney and his friend and some camera operators from CNN and other media filmed the scene, Marble suddenly yelled, “Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go fuck yourself, you asshole!”

Hey, at least Marble was polite. After all, he referred to Cheney as “Mr. Cheney.”

“I had no intention of harming anyone but merely wanted to echo Mr. Cheney’s infamous words back at him,” Marble wrote. “At that moment, I noticed the Secret Service guys with a panic-stricken look on their faces, like they were about to tackle me, so I calmly walked away back to my former house.”

His friend videotaped a little bit longer and then came back to Marble’s house. As they were salvaging a few things from Marble’s home, two military police waving M-16’s showed up and said they were looking for someone who fit Marble’s description who had cursed at Cheney.

“I told them I was probably the person they were looking for, and so they put me in handcuffs and ‘detained’ me for about 20 minutes or so,” Marble wrote. “My right thumb went numb because the cuffs were on so tight, but they were fairly courteous and eventually released me after getting all my contact info. They said I had NOT broken any laws so I was free to go.”

Apparently a friend videotaped the encounter and now he’s selling the DVD on eBay, to the consternation of the eBay folks who are strong supporters of bush (remind me never to do business on eBay again). They pulled his page one time ostensibly because he didn’t censor out the “fuck” from the description of the DVD but he edited that and the site is now back up. I’m hoping some folks with a good heart will bid this one up to the skies. It’s at $1225 right now as I write this.