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By Stone Martindale Jan 25, 2007, 14:18 GMT
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If he didn't have a bad ticker I bet he would have been over that table. Typical media slam.
The Bush-Cheney administration are becoming more hilarious with every passing day. For the first few years, one can pontificate, obstruct, ignore, and 'stay the course' and actually appear to be in control. After awhile, all those strategies start getting real old and that's when people begin to look like buffoons. Dick Cheney is now caught in the middle with his lesbian daughter and the most he seems to be able to do is bluster.
I think that Wolf Blitzer shoul follow Dan Rather. Go!I would recommend that no Republican ever appear on Blirzer's program. He depends on the draw power of his guests. This was deliberate. It was a gross intrusion into Mr. Cheney's
family privacy.
It strikes me as rather hilarious that Cheney would be upset at someone playing a little hardball with him. This paragon of decency (not) would not think twice about going after the spouse of someone who held his dirty machinations up to the light, but thinks Blitzer is 'out of line' for asking a question that is raised by the very mindless zealots that got him elected. He is not only sneaky and mean, but is the poster boy for the art of double standards.
It is the standard practice of Mr. Cheney, and his Commander in Chief, to attack the messenger rather than discuss the message. He's just afraid, apparently, to confront the 'our way or no way' religious group by stating he has no problem with the G&L community having their rights so he tars those who put him in the position of doing so.
Of course he's pissed as his hypocrisy gets thrown out there for the world to see. He panders to people who would love to see his daughter's happiness stripped away from her. I wish Blitzer had lit a hotter fire under his ass on this one.
This is just another media slam on the administration.
'Before Blitzer could say a word, Cheney snipped...'
Snipped? Come on, I saw the interview, Cheney did nothing of the sort. The question was out of line and Cheney just let Wolf know it.
I agree with Mr. Cheney's comment to W. Blitzer, and concur that the question was 'out of line'. He COULD have said'..none of your damn business' but he did not. Whatever 'Focus on the Family' feels about Mary Cheney's pregnancy is irrelevant. What IS important is that Mr. & Mrs. Cheney fully love and support their daughter, and THAT is what is important.
Why must journalists (and I use the term loosely) go for the sleazy and sensational headline? Because it sells papers -- because it boosts TV ratings. The end result is mistrust of the media and those who would sponsor them.
Your question, Mr. Blitzer, may have been fair, but it was NOT responsible. I must ask why you posed the question in the first place.
VP Cheney and his family are entitled to privacy. But as a public official, I think it fair game for news people to ask about their positions regarding gay rights, same sex marriage, etc. I also think that the Cheney's are in a very difficult situation and that a skillful interviewer can tease out the relevant issues without personalizing it by referencing their children's situation.
VP Cheney has the reputation of being a real smart guy. He was wrong about the California energy crisis when he said it was 'our fault and there was nothing the federal government couod do to help the situation.' Enron and friends ripped us off to the tune of 10 billion dollars.
He has been wrong over and over again about Iraq.
And yet people still refer to him as being smart; I don't get it.
I think just another cheap shot by the press to try to embarrass the Cheney's
While I do not have any daughters who are lesbians, but if I did, they would
have my love and understanding.
As a grandfather of 11, i am thrilled and happy with each of them, 'why shouldn't the Cheney's be?'
But in reading most of the headlines, anythng the press can come up with
to embarrass is open game day.
More power to good people like the Cheney's.
Just because their daughter Mary, happens to be lesbian, would Wolf Blitzer deny her the happiness of being a parent.
It was a fair question that once again points out the hyprocrisy that right-wing politicians seems to live under. Bush, Cheyney & Co. are all too willing to court the right-wing conservative christian groups when it comes down to trying garner votes at election time, but when asked how this squares with their own personal situations don't want to give an answer for fear of offending one group or another. If Cheyney is truly proud of his daughter's choice to have a child, no matter how it has come about, then he should stand up and say, and do so in no uncertain terms, instead of trying to do the ol' political two-step shuffle or trying to blame the media for doing the job that the media is there to do.
Too bad, he got hit with the talk show equivalent of an IED--but at least he still has his arms, legs and life, unlike the boys he's consigned to death in a meaningless 'war.'
Yes the Iraqis are so backward with there burkhas, get with it. In america free women have turkey basters. Land of the free? Home of the ?
Typical media slam? Gimme a break!...the conservative media has been slamming the gay community about raising children for YEARS!...Now that it's in their own backyard, Cheney thinks the question is out of line? What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Oh...wait...maybe Dick Cheney is really very liberal when it comes to sticky issues like these...he just doesn't want to upset the conservative billionaires that are lining his pockets!
If it was a Democratic Vice-President, there would not be a single Republican in the nation that would think that Blitzer was out of line. In fact, it is probably due to the fact that Cheney is a Republican that the adminstration fared so well on the issue.
Sometimes ya gotta dance with them that brung ya, and for Dick Cheney, that includes the social conservatives that put him in power and kept him there. He and Bush have pandered to them for years. And he knows as well as anyone that their number one agenda isn't abortion anymore (they've mostly won that battle) but targeting any and every aspect of gay/lesbian relationships, especially childbearing. It's a perfectly legitimate media question to ask a politician who's curried favor with the very movement that's castigating his daughter and her partner how he feels about that. It's a part of the whole 'selling your soul' process in politics. Dick Cheney helped Focus on Family put targets on the backs of women like his own daughter, and by God, he ought to be held accountable for it.
The problem, Mr. Donovan, is that Mr. Cheney is defending for his daughter what his party, and base supporters, deny for others. Therefore, it is not just a private family matter. It involves public policy and is a legitimate matter for discusssion. It can't be OK for his family but not for others. That violates a basic premise of this nation that everyone is equal before the law. Blitzer was essentially asking Mr. Cheney, 'Where do you satnad on the issue?. And all he could respond with was to attack the right to ask a question that involves a very public and contentious matter.
Aww, give him a break. He and Bush are just emotionally and intellectually immature. (hand to mouth muffled cough)
If Cheney can't support his own daughter clearly and coherently in an interview what is he doing trying to parent the nation?
I seriously doubt that we will ever know what this man actually thinks about. Is that what this country needs?
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