NBC TONIGHT! Cheney & Obama are 8th Cousins! Brian Williams Reports!

[KoKo]

GOOD GAWD AHMIGHTY!

Lynn Cheney is trying to DISS OBAMA BIG TIME! How disgusting that this crap would be reported by NBC's Brian Williams on the Network Broadcast!

How low can Brian Williams go to get the Bloggers to go to NBC's site to see how Cheney is USING OBAMA!

:puke: I can't stand Williams...I wish I hadn't turned his crap on...but this one needs a REBUTTAL QUICK! (and, I'm a Gore supporter...not Obama...but Lynn using Obama to sell her book is WAY BELOW THE BELT!)

[robinlynne]

1. rebuttal: Obama is black. and human.

[durrrty libby]

2. So everyone is related. This is not LBN. I'm sure I would be pissed if I found

out what assholes are in my distant past

[eyesroll]

3. What needs rebutting? That Cheney and Obama are 8th cousins, or something else?

If it's the former...who cares? Do you know how distant that is? I have no idea who my 8th cousins are. One of them could be you, or Dick Cheney, or Saddam Hussein, or someone I dated in 8th grade (or live with now) for all I know.


If it's the latter...what is it?

[KoKo]

9. She is using this...whether made up out of her own mind or a Cheney Advisors Mind

to sell her DAMNED BOOK!

To link herself with Obama with some damned Cheney Book Promotion is :puke:

[razors edge]

4. But did you see the real news that followed?

Ellen is having puppy problems, what hell is this that I cannot bear?

I don't think I can carry on this cold and empty life.

Goodbye cruel world, you won't have me to kick around anymore.

:puffpiece: :puffpiece: :puffpiece: :puffpiece:

[Arugula Latte]

5. Well sure. Of course we all go back to Adam & Eve ...

Sheesh. Everybody knows that.

Oh, and BTW, the world is flat and 4,000 years old. Dinosaurs did not exist, and George W. Bush is the greatest president ever.

[bigdarryl]

6. GET THE FUCK OUT OF HEAR!!!!! is this for real

[Yael]

7. Is is being discussed all over. There are at least 4 threads here about it

[KoKo]

10. Sorry I missed them...I was working and didn't catch them...just know I was surfing

and hit upon the Brian Williams hit piece of Lynn Cheney tying her Book Sales to some 8th Cousin Crap with Obama....and thought it was way below the pale even for Nazi Cheney's.

As I said...I'm not an Obama supporter...but dammit they are below the belt with their :puke: tactics.

[Yael]

13. Just didn't want you to think WIlliams was the lone shark on this feeding frenzy

On one of the other threads, someone posted the lineup. Apparently, Obama is related to Bush as well.

No big deal -- they shared a grandparent in the 1700s. Anyone voting on that basis is an idget.

:hi:

[KoKo]

16. No problem...we catch the "Media Whores" at different times...

and I don't like some unfair thing going on even with candidates I don't support.

:hi: NO hard feelings...

[Yael]

21. I hear ya on that. n/t

[SaveElmer]

8. Big deal...so are millions

That far back if you have any British ancestry you are related to nearly everyone els with British ancestry...

I am 8th cousins with George Washington, 5th cousin with Richard Nixon...related to FDR, Tyler and many others...in fact I can practically guarantee I'm related to Obama without even looking at it...

It is highly unremarkable...

[smalll]

11. Thank God it's Obama, not Hillary -

can you imagine the grief she'd be getting here right now? We'd have threads declaring this the "proof" that Hillary (in conjunction with the Bilderbergers, the Illuminati, Skull and Bones and the World's Biggest Drug Dealer (Elizabeth II)) is RIGGING THE POLLS! OMG! She stole Ohio from from Kerry last time! It's all part of the plan! :crazy:

[polichick]

12. Lynn Cheney used it as a reason she doesn't like Hillary...

At least that's what I heard her say ~ but when asked she also said she wouldn't vote for Obama.

[Yael]

14. She "wouldn't vote for Obama" because he is related to her husband like 9 generations back?

I am sorry, I have a hard time believing Lynn Cheney would make such an obtuse statement.

[polichick]

15. She wouldn't vote for Obama EVEN THOUGH he's related...

...to her husband. They just replayed it on msnbc.

[Yael]

18. My bad!

:hi:

[emilyg]

20. I'm glad she doesn't like Clinton.

[polichick]

22. I doubt Hillary is losing any sleep over it either! :) nt

[goodgd_yall]

17. I'd hate to see who I might be related to----

could be Giuliani for I know. After all, we do both have Italian ancestry.

:yoiks:

[Yael]

19. Oh, but you can know!

If you don't have a Mormon handy that wants to baptize your ancestors in proxy (and will therefore do a slop-shod job for free), you can trace from here:

http://www.dnaancestryproject.com/ydna_intro_ancestry.php

I saw this on the Colbert Report a few months back and bookmarked out of curiosity.

[goodgd_yall]

25. Hey thanks

I really am interested in this kind of thing. It's would be worth it to know Rudy is NOT a relative.

I would love to be related to John Lennon.

[CK_John]

23. Anyone who does not believe they do research to the nth degree on every member of Congress, now

have all the proof they need. This may be just a factoid to L Cheney but it is not some parlor game either. To me this shows a very serious research center devoted to in depth snooping. Lynn may have let the cat out of the bag. We need some brave press person to ask how this info was found or maybe the candidate should ask "how and why".

I think all DEM candidate should also request any info about their lineage. Might be the beginning of an interesting conversation.

[Forkboy]

24. That's ok.Supposedly I'm distantly related to Nixon.

Who am I to bitch? :)

[Colobo]

26. This is obviously Obama's fault.

:sarcasm: