Don't Quote Me: Mary Cheney's Baby

[Catfight]

by Kim Ficera, Contributing Writer
February 7, 2007
The bizarre and sordid history of cooperation between Mary and Dick Cheney and Christian conservatives is very well documented, as are the effects that their love triangle has had on American politics and, more to the point, Americans. Now Mary wants us to believe that she's never sought endorsement from Dobson?

Excuse me while I fight off the killer tomatoes that have just marched into my backyard.

Mary might not have asked for Dobson's permission to get pregnant, but she certainly counted on his endorsement in the past, as did her father. The Cheneys have been playing politics with Christians at the expense of gays and lesbians for years, treating us as if we are, collectively, a commodity — and it's long past time for us to tell them that the game is over.

(snip)
I have great admiration for Blitzer, but I think he was out to lunch when it came to balancing Cheney's power and position with his own power, experience and most importantly, his obligations as a journalist. Blitzer put Cheney's comfort level ahead of the public's right to know how Cheney feels about being wedged by one of his own party's wedge issues.

Instead of congratulating Cheney on having another grandchild after the vice president refused to respond to the criticism of Mary by a conservative Christian group, Blitzer should have said this: “I know you think the world of your daughter, sir, but you've made it clear to lesbians all over America that you don't think much of them. You owe the entire gay community an explanation as to why you believe your daughter would be a fit mother, but support the belief that other lesbians and gay men are unfit to raise children.”

Read entire article: http://www.afterellen.com/columns/2007/2/quote/cheney?page=0%2C0

[Booster]

1. Good article and great point made by Kim. I'm so sick of

Cheney's (all of them) act - like he's so above all the rest of us.

[liberal renegade]

2. I heard a rumor

that Daddy Dick donated the tadpole.....

[Booster]

4. Thanks, now I have to go into the bathroom and throw up. What

a truly disgusting thought.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. In his mind, he IS above all of us.

He believes he is a person of such merit that ordinary rules do not apply to him. Those rules are to keep the masses in line so that he can go about doing what he pleases--which, by virtue of his exalted status, is his divine right.

I kid you not. His daughter put pretty much that principle into the mouth of a character in her recent novel, in such a way that you have to know that it is actually er view of reality.