Lynne Cheney on lesbian characters in her book: "This is a lie"

[Human Torch]

WOLF BLITZER CONFRONTS LYNNE CHENEY ABOUT LESBIAN AFFAIRS, BROTHELS, ATTEMPTED RAPES IN HER NOVEL....

CNN | Posted October 27, 2006 05:13 PM



BLITZER: I want you to -- this was in the news today and your name

has come up, so that's why we're talking about it, but listen to this.

(AUDIO CLIP PLAYED)

CHENEY: Jim Webb is full of baloney. I have never written anything

sexually explicit. His novels are full of sexual explicit references to

incest, sexually explicit references -- well, you know, I just don't

want my grandchildren to turn on the television set. This morning, Imus

was reading from the novels, and it -- it's triple-X rated.

BLITZER: Here's what the Democratic Party put out today, the

Democratic Congressional -- Senatorial Campaign Committee: "Lynne

Cheney's book featured brothels and attempted rape. In 1981, Vice

President Dick Cheney's wife, Lynne, wrote a book called "Sisters",

which featured a lesbian love affair, brothels and attempted rapes."

CHENEY: No.

BLITZER: "In 1988, Lynn Cheney wrote about a Republican vice

president who dies of a heart attack while having sex with his

mistress." Is that true?

CHENEY: Nothing explicit. And actually, that was full of lies.

It's not -- it's just -- it's absolutely not a...

BLITZER: Did you write a book entitled "Sisters"?

CHENEY: I did write a book entitled "Sisters".

BLITZER: It did have lesbian characters.

CHENEY: This -- no, not necessarily. This description is a lie.

I'll stand on that.

BLITZER: There's nothing in there about rape and brothels?

CHENEY: Well, Wolf, could we talk about a children's book for a minute?

BLITZER: We can talk about the children's book. I just wanted to...

CHENEY: I think my segment is, like, 15 minutes long and we've had

about 10 minutes of...

BLITZER: I just wanted to -- I just wanted to clarify what's in the

news today, given -- this is...

CHENEY: That's lies and distortion. That's what it is.

BLITZER: This is an opportunity for you to explain on these

sensitive issues.

CHENEY: Wolf, I have nothing to explain. Jim Webb has a lot to

explain.

BLITZER: Well, he says he's only -- as a serious writer, novelist,

a fiction writer, he was doing basically what you were doing.

CHENEY: Jim Webb is full of baloney.

BLITZER: We'll leave it at that. Let's talk a little bit about

your book, "Our 50 States: A Family Adventure Across America".

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/10/27/wolf-blitzer-confronts-ly_n_32666.html

[59millionmorons]

1. She lies as good as her lying husband

Dick

[Parche]

29. lynne cheney

She looks as if those slivers really hurt that she got in her behind from her broomstick...

[ShortnFiery]

2. I see that she borrowed some of Laura's drapes to wrap around

her shoulders a la Scarlet O'hara fashion sense. :P :yoiks:

[gratuitous]

3. Jeez, spell it out for him, Lynne

I. O. K. I. Y. A. R.

"It's OK if you're a Republican." Damn Wolf, did you forget?

[Boston Critic]

4. Lynne Cheney is trruly repulsive

I feel sorry for their offspring. Imagine have Dick and Lynne for your parents.

[Human Torch]

14. I hope I don't ruin your day by SHOWING YOU THIS:

:evilgrin:



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5457379/site/newsweek/

She was also the truly repulsive homecoming queen in 1959.

:evilgrin:

[Penndems]

5. Here's an excerpt I Googled. Judge for yourselves whether or not it's "a lie":

"The women who embraced in the wagon were Adam and Eve crossing a dark cathedral stage -- no, Eve and Eve, loving one another as they would not be able to once they ate of the fruit and knew themselves as they truly were. She felt curiously moved, curiously envious of them. She had never to this moment thought Eden a particularly attractive paradise, based as it was on naiveté, but she saw that the women in the cart had a passionate, loving intimacy forever closed to her. How strong it made them. What comfort it gave.

The young woman was heavily powdered, but quite attractive, a curvesome creature, rounded at bosom and cheek. When she smiled, even her teeth seemed puffed and rounded, like tiny ivory pillows.

Let us go away together, away from the anger and imperatives of men. We shall find ourselves a secluded bower where they dare not venture. There will be only the two of us, and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement. In the evenings I shall read to you while you work your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl."

[Ian David]

8. "And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl."

I'm not an expert, but that sounds pretty lesbian to me.

"Load-up the U-Haul, I'm moving in!"

[Penndems]

11. After reading that passage, I came to two conclusions:

1. Either Lynne Cheney has an extremely vivid imagination, OR

2. She's had some first-person knowledge of lesbian relationships.

[partylessinOhio]

16. Like daughter like mother?

[Penndems]

18. EGG-zackly. Thank you.

The proverbial apple may not fall far from the tree.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

32. Actually, it doesn't take an imagination or lesbian experience to write

that drivel.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

31. I'm an expert. That sounds pretty lesbian to me.

[Penndems]

35. For an allegedly straight, married woman, this excerpt is awfully lurid stuff

I'm straight, I'm married, and I couldn't write something like this without interviewing members of the gay/lesbian community.

After reading that passage, I'm convinced Lynne Cheney is in the closet.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

37. If you couldn't write that being straight and married, then you

just have no writing ability. Honestly, crap like that doesn't require much imagination. I can write straight love scenes and I'm a lesbian.

It means nothing, just like it means nothing if Lynne Cheney is in the closet.

[Penndems]

39. If you couldn't write that being straight and married, then you

just have no writing ability."

Probably not but, then again, I'm still a novice.

Give me time - I'm still working on that Great American Novel. ;)

[Throwing Stones]

9. Yes, but you're not playing fair

Don't you know that it's just not fair to debate a repuke using facts?

[jeff30997]

15. You're a liar Penndems !!!

You never Googled that ! It's not on the web ! In fact it doesn't exist at all ! :rofl:

[Penndems]

20. Ah . . . so sayeth the GOP talking points?

;)

Alas, I have the link: http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/041005sexnovel.htm

[Human Torch]

19. It's lesbian fiction...excruciatingly boring lesbian fiction.

I would have liked the book MUCH better if "Eve and Eve" had gotten into an invisible plane at the end and flew away, happily ever after, to Paradise Island.

:evilgrin:

[Miss Chybil]

36. Gawd! And somebody published that drivel? Once again, in America

it matters more who you know than whether you can write. Welcome to the USA! The land where the rich get richer - for nothing.

[Penndems]

44. I guarantee you, if her name wasn't Lynne Cheney, that tripe never would have seen the light of day

n/t

[Lasher]

48. It sold 200 copies and went almost instantly out of print

That was back in 1981. The publisher was going to re-issue the thing in 2004 but Cheney's lawyer stopped them.

http://www.thememoryblog.org/archives/000341.html

[calimary]

40. "...a curvesome creature"??? OY! How maudlin.

Trying to wax rhapsodic about a forbidden lesbian affair. What'd she do - peek in one night when her daughter had a girlfriend over - and then embroider it onto some printed page? What dreck! Man, when they say "dimestore novel," they mean her stuff, for sure. If I were ever forced to purchase it, that's all I'd offer. At least she can live well off dickie's piracy and war profiteering. I doubt her family would eat well on THAT crap. How come the so-called "Christian" "right" hasn't slammed her a good one for this shit? This is the kind of stuff they supposedly hate.

[blitzen]

43. I think her editor made her cut the end of that one sentence

The original manuscript said:

"Let us go away together, away from the anger and imperatives of men like Dick Cheney."

[jayctravis]

46. When she smiled, even her teeth seemed puffed and rounded, like tiny ivory pillows.

Someone needs to enter that in the Bulwer-Lytton competition.

[Lasher]

49. Here's a couple of good links

Excerpts of Sisters can be viewed at Whitehouse.org.



http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/sisters.asp

And for your browsing enjoyment the whole literary masterpiece can be viewed here in PDF format:

http://www.annatopia.com/pics/LynneCheney.pdf

Edit: Oops, I see IanDB1 had already posted the first link downthread.

[Ian David]

6. Does that stupid, lying woman not realize that people can READ??

Or is she splitting hairs:

"Well, they're not LESBIANS... they're BISEXUAL women having hot, lesbian sex."

"Brothels? Oh, heaves no! They're WHORE HOUSES! Brothels are CLASSY."

"Rape? Oh, more like molestation with attempted penetration."

[partylessinOhio]

7. Missy lies and she looks like sh!t too!

I see that life is really getting to her. Couldn't happen to a more deserving 'ho!

What? No heat in the CNN studios?

[brentspeak]

10. Wow, gee, what a convincing rebuttal by Cheney

:thumbsdown:

[Ian David]

26. It's all Clinton's fault. He had the lesbians in his sights, but didn't take the shot. n/t

[applegrove]

12. Wolf did good. He was polite but didn't let her make up reality. all she could

do was change topics.

[Ian David]

21. He should have read her passages from the book. n/t

[applegrove]

27. She changed the subject. He won that point. No need to read it. Then

the repukes would make her the victim. As it was..she just seemed like a 'desperate housewife'.

[Dinger]

28. That Would Have Been Interesting (nt)

[partylessinOhio]

13. What is Dick's approval rating?

Another notch!

[Ian David]

17. Political satire site WhiteHouse.org has posted "the good stuff."

More:
http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/sisters.asp

[Penndems]

22. LOL - Yeech!

Geez, talk about your dime-store novel prose. :eyes:

This is like a Harlequin romance geared towards lesbians.

[Catchawave]

30. I love that web site !!!

Here's a good one:

http://www.whitehouse.org/kids/palm/index.asp

[Penndems]

38. "Today I will not guzzle Boone's Farm"

Bwhahaha!

[fob]

23. freeper mode - ON I didn't see the interview but I can tell from

that one picture that lynn is very ANGRY. What an ANGRY pantsuit wearing BITCH. I can tell without any facts! freeper mode - OFF

Wow! That freep-ade is powerful stuff!

All kidding aside, that's one ANGRY beeotch.

[Supersedeas]

24. The integrity of Republicans is crumbling at every turn--the truth is betraying them

[partylessinOhio]

25. And I am loving every minute of this. Hooray!

[bigdarryl]

This Wolf Blitzer called her book a thing of BEAUTY

[bigdarryl]

33. This Wolf Blitzer called her book a thing of BEAUTY

[bigdarryl]

34. This Wolf Blitzer called her book a thing of BEAUTY

[Catchawave]

41. ...and you had to say it 3 times !?

Any content would be helpful too :hi:

[blitzen]

42. The characters were not "necessarily" lesbians...

I guess it depends on what the meaning of "necessarily" is

[saltpoint]

45. I'd like to hear Mrs. Cheney explain the difference between a

"triple-x" passage and a regular x-rated passage.

I haven't read any of her books. Evidently there are lesbians in them who aren't really lesbians?

Puzzlin' evidence.

[peekaloo]

47. I came here for an argument. No you didn't. Yes, I did.

:rofl:

I never thought anybody could top Monty Python in the ridiculous department...Sweet Jebus :rofl: