Shortly after the attacks on September 11th 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney portrayed the "terrorist" to the American people during in interview with Tim Russert. In this interview Cheney talks about what happened, why it happened and how future stops can be prevented. 
  During the interview Cheney uses class to describe the "terrorist". When talking about Osama Bin Laden, Cheney says that the reason that Osama led the attacks was because of the way he was raised and that he was raised in a wealthy family. Even though Osama lives a poor part of the world he uses his wealth to control the poor.  Cheney also identifies the "terrorists" as "Islamic Extremists" who have dominated over the surrounding people making them a higher class. 
Within the interview gender is displayed through Cheney's answers. Along the line of "Islamic Extremists" there is a theme of dominance and violence which are both masculine traits. At another point in the interview Cheney describes the "terrorists" as "barbarians". Barbarians are associated with violence, destruction and being uncivilized, which are all signs of masculinity. Cheney does not only compare "terrorism" to barbarianism, it is also compared to Fascism, Nazism and Totalitarianism. All three of these "isms" took complete dominance and control over countries and the need for dominance is one of the biggest sign of masculinity.   
During the interview Cheney tried very hard not to make September 11th about race but in doing so he actually made it about race. Throughout the interview he would say things about the people who committed the attacks are extremist Muslims and that we should not blame Muslims. The way it is said though sounds more like, "Even though these people are Muslim and look Muslim and sound Muslim they are not the same Muslim so don't blame Muslims blame these people who are almost the same thing". This is very confusing and is complete and racial stereotyping because he drills it into repeatedly that Muslims did not do it but it was "Muslims". Due to this confusion our country ends up with a massive amount of racial stereotyping. For example if you were to go into an airport and talk to a TSA officer and ask if they are more suspicious of people that look Muslim they are going to say no. In reality there are more people that look Muslim stopped out of suspicion in airports than any white males. Vice President Dick Cheney's attempts to not create racism toward Muslims completely backfired and ended up causing racism. 
Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with Tim Russert did a few things. It insured the American people that something would be done about the horrendous attacks on September 11th, 2001. It also identified the enemy that America would soon be fighting through gender and class. It also racial identified that enemy causing a massive amount of confusion to many people. Very recently a man went a shot up a Zeke temple thinking they were Muslim. Even if they were Muslim it still is not right to kill innocent people just because this crazy man thought they were terrorists.