VIDEO: Lynne Cheney Unhinged On CNN

[Rose Siding]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/10/27/lynne-cheney-cnn/

Lynne Cheney repeatedly attacked CNN for having a liberal bias during a fiery and combative appearance today on the Situation Room.

Cheney said a CNN special that aired yesterday was a “terrible distortion of both the president and the vice president’s position on many issues,” in part because CNN used the phrase “domestic surveillance” to describe the so-called “Terrorist Surveillance Program.” When Wolf Blitzer pointed out that some individuals have been arrested and interrogated despite having no ties to terrorism, Cheney warned, “I think that you might be a little careful” declaring someone has “clean hands.”

Later, Cheney criticized Virginia Senate candidate Jim Webb for including sexually explicit material in his novels. Asked whether her own novel Sisters had “lesbian characters,” Cheney said, “no, not necessarily. This description is a lie. I’ll stand on that.” In fact, her novel did contain multiple scenes describing a lesbian love affair.

Repeatedly, Cheney asked Wolf Blitzer to end his line of questioning and about her new children’s book.
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I thought Blitzer did OK. He didn't slap her around or anything but it was enlightening to see the kind of pressure that is probably frequently applied to the media by the admin.

[Fridays Child]

1. Let's pretend it was Hillary. What would the instant 'puke talking points be?

Hmm....

[Fleshdancer]

16. emotionally unstable, in need of meds, a raging lunatic.....

...angry feminazi, crackpot, psychotic, not fit for office etc. I can see the attack ads now. :eyes:

[ShortnFiery]

2. Wolf showed that he had a spine and won't be invited ...

to any Executive Branch event again. Poor Wolfie - but it did give me hope for reclaiming his journalistic integrity. :-)

[Mika]

63. Wolf will be invited to a waterboarding..

.. as the "guest" of honor.

Ms Cheney warned him to be careful.

[fooj]

3. Things getting a little STRESSFUL for you, Lynne?

Boo Fucking Hoo.

Cheney warned, “I think that you might be a little careful”

Sure as hell sounded like a THREAT to me.

[bluestateguy]

4. At least people bought Jim Webb's books

nt

[SouthernBelle82]

99. And his book was endorsed

Wasn't his book endorsed by John McCain? I would love someone to ask McCain on the record about Webb's book.

[spanone]

5. She's basically blaming everything on the Media. She's fucking crazy.

[tridim]

8. Crazy, delusional and completely divorced from reality

Just like her husband and her husband's "boss". It's really stunning to watch.

[SouthernBelle82]

100. And here I thought

these were the adults in charge. An adult knows when to take personal responsibility. Lynne obviously is like the rest of them of course and a spoiled woman who doesn't know personal responsibility.

[Berserker]

6. She puked out

talking points the entire time and she is accusing others?

[spanone]

7. Saw this earilier. WAIT TILL HE GOES TO CAFFERTY.

LMAO.

Wolfe asks Cafferty what he thinks about Cheney's remark......

[sweetheart]

9. Her last line is an honest review of the administration

What does the administration stand for?

"CHENEY: Sex, lies and distortion."

Do you notice when she was doing the big lie, she looked down, she
looks like fau goebbels... spooky monster.

[slaveplanet]

34. You're not the only one

who's compared her to Goebbles. The Larouchie's have been crawling all up in her behind as of late, and I can't say I disagree with them on this one...

[sweetheart]

97. looks just like her

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Goebbels02.jpg

Spooky indeed how similar their appearance...

[eleny]

10. Now Blitzer knows how it feels to be called a terrorist sympathizer

There's no doubt in my mind that he came away from the interview calling her names in his head. She worked him over and he fell to his knees.

I have never seen Blitzer become so meek and I bet he resented it, in the words of Dick Cheney - big time.

I hope it influences CNN to go after the truths of our invasion, occupation and pillaging of Iraq with vigor.

Lynn Cheney reminds me of Barbara Bush.

[Jacobin]

11. She's lying about her book

Why is she so angry?

:rofl:

[sweetheart]

13. that anger

"respect our authority, goddammit!! We stole it fair and square,
we rape and pilliage fair and square, lie like theives, and if you
dare question us, we'll first question your loyalty, then your
honour as a civil person, and finally, they just pave you over with
hate and a sneer... just like she did to wolf, a rude attack to
cover up a deceipt.

Its always the same, they go on the offensive, ad hominem with lots
of hatred, and it works on even the best interviewers.

She can't hide her lying body language, what a viscious person.

[Lusted4]

18. Sugar Plums dancing in my head. n/t

[City Lights]

12. Wow. What a fine couple the chee-kneeies are.

A perfect match. Two bitter, know-it-all assholes. May they both rot in hell.

[glitch]

26. Not that I want to waste sympathy on the devil, but they are already there.

Happy people tend not to be vicious.

[judaspriestess]

14. It was ok for that deadbeat Wallace to interrogate Clinton on faux noose

when he was there to talk about his global initiative but not ok for you to get some hard questions? C*nt

[progressivebydesign]

15. If CNN is liberal, then Lynn Cheney is a Pulitzer winner.. n/t

[CurtEastPoint]

If book prices determine it, yes. It's on Amazon for $282!!!

See what a little publicity will do for a piece of crap by a piece of crap?

[bushwhacked2008]

46. anyone actually read this "piece of crap"?

[Radio_Lady]

52. No, but I predict someone on the Internet will locate it soon.

[Rose Siding]

58. Just some of the naughty bits ;)

There were passages all over the internets back when the scandal broke. There are some here (if you're in the mood wink wink know what I mean know what I mean)-

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/oct/27/va_sen_lynne_cheney_claims_her_steamy_lesbian_novel_isnt_sexually_explicit

[bushwhacked2008]

65. I thought we were talking about the new "piece of crap" for little republicans?

[Rose Siding]

68. Didn't you ask if anyone had read Cheney's book?

I pointed you to some excerpts.

[bushwhacked2008]

74. sorry, I thought we were talking about the new book that was discussed on CNN

[Ms. Clio]

80. gosh, why did you put "piece of crap?" in quotes like that?

do you doubt that it is, in fact, a large steaming stinking turd of a tome?

[bushwhacked2008]

90. can't judge a book by it's cover

has ANY one here read the new book that was being plugged?

[Ms. Clio]

93. oh, I can judge some books by their covers

or maybe you think I need to read Mein Kampf to really give Hitler a fair evaluation?

[Lusted4]

17. Just maybe Wolf has finally reached his limit. n/t

[blitzburgh55]

19. What the hell was

she wearing? A slip cover?

[bushwhacked2008]

20. sorry to say it, but...

... wolf got own3d :-(

[Strelnikov_]

23. By That Fascist Party Doll?

Not a chance.

[bushwhacked2008]

25. way.

think what you want about the cheney family, but showing jihad home videos of americans getting gunned down is not cool

[Strelnikov_]

29. No. It Is Not Cool. It Is Called Journalism. You Don't Think The American

people should know what our troops are up against, so they can make an informed decision in the upcoming election. An informed vote is the greatest support we can provide the troops.

I take it, then, that you do not support an informed electorate.

And Cheney's 'wife' (yea, right) is simply another talking point spewing fascist party doll.

[bushwhacked2008]

35. not in favor of snuff videos on prime time tv

...gotta draw the line somewhere. does everyone here want their little kids watching americans getting gunned down in prime time?

[Strelnikov_]

37. Here Come The Talking Points

I grew up watching Americans getting gunned down in prime time.

It was called VIETNAM.

Made me a LIBERAL and ANTI-WAR.

Hmm . . .

on-edit: ANTI-WAR unless all diplomatic means have failed. I am NOT a pacifist. I simply believe in the existential truth of the following statement:

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

- Sir Winston Churchill

[bushwhacked2008]

40. really? cool!

I grew up during 'nam also. Don't remember Cronkite showing any vietcong videos of americans getting killed in prime time though.

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[TankLV]

86. Then you had your head up your ass...

Maybe you should START PAYING ATTENTION this time around, huh?

And it was far from "cool" - it was very distressing...

[roody]

62. I don't watch much tv or have cable.

But when I turn on the tv, there are lots of people killing other people.

[Laurab]

60. When Americans are getting gunned down in prime time

which they are, I think people should see it. We don't see the caskets coming home, we don't see the people being killed - it's so easy to pretend there's not a war going on. A war that we're losing, and that is killing more Americans (and innocent civilians, as well), every day.

I think we need more of those "snuff" videos on prime time, myself, if in fact, that's what's going on in the world. Reality isn't always pleasant.

[bushwhacked2008]

66. so you'd be in favor of a duckworth video?

... showing her legs getting blown off? how do you think she would like that?

[Laurab]

70. What does a "duckworth video" have to do with anything?

And why do you keep bringing it up? What I'm in favor of is having people know the reality of war. I'm not talking about politics, I'm talking about NEWS. It has nothing to do with a "duckworth" video.

Why single out one person when there are so many victims of this senseless war? Because she's a Democrat running for office? Your argument, if that's what it is, makes no sense, and has nothing to do with ANYTHING.

[bushwhacked2008]

75. wonder what duckworth thinks about the CNN videos?

somebody needs to ask her. can't imagine she would like that soldier's family to watch their son/husband/father killed on network tv.

CAN YOU?

[TankLV]

87. I imagine they would be more upset about their kitting killed for NOTHING but REPUKE L IES!

Wrap your mind around that FACT, OK?

[Ms. Clio]

67. do you think "the children" should also be protected from pictures like this?

[bushwhacked2008]

73. on prime time tv, some of them, yep.

why did you put "the children" in quotes? do you think they don't exist?

[Ms. Clio]

78. sorry, "prime time" is exactly when those photos should be shown

everyone in this country should see and understand them, including the sacred children. If parents don't want their kids to see, then it's their responsibility to remove their kids from the vicinity of the television set.

[pecwae]

84. I must ask

if you minded your family viewing the corpses of Usay and Uday being paraded around?

[bushwhacked2008]

89. paraded? I only saw the horizontal ones.

but they bothered me all the same.

same with the troops dragged through the streets of mogadishu.

[Ms. Clio]

94. war is cruel and ugly and the public needs to see that

too bad if you can't handle the truth.

[SouthernBelle82]

102. Exactly

War is not a video game. And people need to understand that.

[Ms. Clio]

103. your point below hits it precisely -- the voters need to be informed

adults do not need to be shielded from the truth.

[symbolman]

92. When I was 16 years old

I would sit at the dinner table and watch BIG STRONG MEN holding up Necklaces made of the HUMAN EARS of their kills.

All this KNOWING that in TWO SHORT years I would be standing there watching that IN PERSON, having been drafted in 1971 and enlisting in the USAF instead of being a ground pounder.

I watched as a kid while they made pronouncements that "384 VietCong were KILLED today, and one american Troop suffered from a HANGNAIL" KNOWING that was sheer utter BULLSHIT.

I served my country, and I saw what it did to some of my best friends, I don't attend High School Reunions because Not Only is the Rate of Attrition for balding fat guys who have heart attacks who used to be football heroes cause for MEN to be missing, but the fact that MANY in my Graduating class had their FUCKING BRAINS BLOWN OUT and aren't there to CELEBRATE.

SO NO Reunion for me.

It was a responsible Media SHOWING the HORRORS of war that forced the Middle agers to get out there with the 'hippies' and SAVE MANY MANY LIVES that would have been squandered. My cousins, the ones that didn't die were NUTS and no one would marry them for their SCREAMS in the night that never ended.

How about NO ONE sees this stuff, and that INCLUDES TROOPS, they DON'T get sent into a War zone for NO REASON, so they don't SEE the Horrors THERE or ON TV?

And now they may want MY SONS?

They'd better PACK A FUCKING LUNCH, and they can RUN that SHOWDOWN ON CNN TOO.

Get fucking REAL my friend, or go sign up and SAVE BUSH's ASS by fighting for whatever the fuck they TELL you they are fighting for.. they are fighting for their LIVES, handed a gun and surrounded by the enemy, they have no CHOICE once sent there..

Give me a Break.

[SouthernBelle82]

101. And who said

little kids vote? They don't. The people who are going to vote deserve the whole truth. Not some W form of reality that's not real. "Oh it's all rosey and happy and fine!" Bullshit. Sorry but I deserve to know the truth when I go and vote.

[bushwhacked2008]

45. I don't duckworth would like to see video of her legs getting blown off

on CNN in prime time.

do you?

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[bushwhacked2008]

38. mellow out guy, I thought everybody hated CNN?

Conservative bias and all that. I didn't realize that they were now the good guys.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

61. LMAO. Now that is as pathetic a psy ops post as they come.

:rofl: MKJ

[bushwhacked2008]

76. oh shit, karl rove's cover has been blown!

[Ms. Clio]

79. sooner or later

I'm betting on the former.

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[bushwhacked2008]

43. where can I pick up the free pie?

and what kind of pie is it?

[progressivebydesign]

21. I think someone had to super-size her martini immediately after that!

OMG.. she was tap dancing, wasn't she??? Trying to lecture him, but coming off so freakin full of shit! Is Wolf's show a commentary show? Because I think he should have just blown off her question about whether or not CNN "wants the terrorists to win". That was so fucking stupid.

[wakeme2008]

22. I lost it when she lied about "we inherited a recession"

that has been debunked so many times :grr:

[never_get_over_it]

39. Thank you

and did you hear her answer when Wolf asked if her book was about a lesbian couple - she said not necessarily - now that is effing funny - oh man that was some GOOD TV... I needed a good laugh...oh and Lynn the Government is broken you stupid witch....

[stevedeshazer]

24. Mrs. Darth in her own words:

"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."

source: http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000385.htm

And, from this article: http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=2662

<snip>

But then there’s another book, written by another well-known political figure, and it’s a doozy. Throughout its pages are fornication (the heroine with her late sister’s husband), incest (half brother knocks up half sister), adultery (the heroine, with her first husband’s friend), contraception (by the wed and the unwed) and lesbian couplings (the heroine’s sister and an older woman). And incidentally, lynchings, dogicide, cattle theft and robber-baronism.

I smell blood.

[Lusted4]

27. Not your typical free book commercial.n/t

[sweetheart]

32. not your typical venemous snake, oh neat!

Atypically untypical as topical troglodytes entreat.

Vexingly valliant venemously november,
dalliance expectingly, slyest of defenders.

[Marr]

28. I could not BELIEVE it when she asked,

"do you want us to win?" with regards to Iraq reporting.

Blitzer should've taken personal offense at the suggestion that he's a traitor because CNN occasionally reports something that the Bush Administration doesn't want people to know.

[Gabi Hayes]

30. I would have settle for a simple: "Define WIN" from that pantywaist.

that's all

[Cha]

53. That would take quick thinking

on your ass!

[Marr]

55. "Define US" would've worked as well.

I wonder, when Lynne Cheney says "us", does she mean the people at Halliburton or the people in her yacht club?

[TankLV]

88. I'd settle for "define "us"...

[Phrogman]

31. How would you all feel if you had to let Richard Cheney fuck you?

OK, OK, so thats not such a good question.

[Virginia Dare]

49. Oh my God, I do believe I'm going to vomit...n/t

[bridgit]

33. none of those people 'get it', not a single one of them, down to the...

very last & Mary Cheney too...none of them get's it :thumbsdown:

[medeak]

42. can you imagine having THAT for a mother in law? n/t

[Virginia Dare]

47. That's rich, now they send MRS DARTH VADER...

out as a pit bull/hatchet witch. They're really scraping the bottom of the barrel now.

My question is, exactly who is it that gives a flying fuck what Lynne Chney says, does or thinks?

[bunny planet]

48. Time for Randi to start playing the reading of 'Sisters' that Joann Allen

in the AAR news department used to do for her program. It was hysterical, but Joann Allen no longer works there so they may not have permission to broadcast her reading it any longer. Too bad, it would be very interesting to hear it again now. And perhaps get KO to play it.
:evilgrin:

[lovuian]

50. The Truth hurts

especially when it is spoken

[lonestarnot]

51. Does she have a beautiful mind too?

[cally]

54. Wolfe came on the next hour with a rebuttal

and replayed snippets. Then brought on Lou Dobbs to further rebut it. Promised more rebuttal on Monday. It's really not a good idea to piss off an anchor before an election. :rofl:

[ljm2002]

56. What an entitled b*tch n/t

[pnorman]

57. Here's that damn book:

http://www.whitehouse.org/administration/lynne-cheney-sisters-full.pdf

I have better things to do with my time tonight, but later on I may search out the "good parts".

pnorman

[proud patriot]

59. wheee ! man that was fun to watch

she must be used to getting her way ..as she got quite
snippy . :D

[StrictlyRockers]

64. Snarling little kitty cat got pissed. She took control of the conversation.

He asked one question that was not a soft ball and she threw a hissy fit. "You want to talk about distortion?"

She completely veered of and changed the subject to a total non sequitor. She gets fiesty when cornered. He should have been more forceful in steering that "interview" in my opinion.

SR

[BlueStorm]

69. What a prissy little b**ch

What's the matter Mrs. Cheney, the interview wasn't cooked to your order?

Didn't get your own little way so you have a hissyspit?

Blue

[Az_lefty]

71. Lynne Cheney has a lesbian childrens book out now?

gee, I can't wait to get my hands on that.
:puke:

[frogcycle]

77. yeah!

let's see how far we can spread that rumor!
:)

[Lefty48197]

72. She is deeply disturbed

Bush and Cheney inherited a recession? We had the lowest unemployment in a generation, the highest rate of home ownership ever, and the budget was in surplus when Bush & Cheney took over.

[Bluebear]

81. Gee why are Republicans so ANGRY?

:eyes:

[oasis]

82. Rummy/Limbaugh/ Lynn Cheney off their meds this week.(n/t)

[Jack Rabbit]

83. I can't believe what theyse people are telling lies over now

I haven't read Mrs. Cheney's novel, but since I can fact check what she's saying with a trip to the library, why is she being defensive?

The lady did not come across well at all. Wolf Blitzer has been a good ally of the junta for years, so who is she to impugn his patriotism (which she defines as supporting the junta). She was the one not allowing Mr. Blitzer to talk to her about the book.

[TankLV]

85. Where are the appropriate Headlines is what I want to know...

You know, the kind they UNJUSTIFIABLY used when Clinton DEFENDED himself - camly and forthrightly - against wallace's attempts to sandbag and smear him.

Here, darling lynn was clearly DERANGED, and there is NOTHING, NADA, SILENCE...

Hmmmm....

[Toots]

91. What type of person would wish to marry Cheney?

I suspect she may be one reason for Cheney's unpleasantness. :shrug:

[leftchick]

95. that was quite remarkable

my favorite lie "the president and vice-president inherited a recession". She looked very very bad. Harpyish.

[Amonester]

96. Why ain't that little fascist cheerleader in Iraq?

Too Rich to go "bring democracy" there? :shrug:

[girl gone mad]

98. She came accross like Martha Stewart after the insider trading news broke.

"I just want to talk about my salad."