Laura Flanders: Aren't We Cheneyed Out Yet?

[marmar]

from The Nation:



Aren't We Cheneyed Out Yet?
posted by Laura Flanders on 03/12/2010 @ 11:42am


At what point do we call them the family of mass intimidation and simply stop playing into the Cheney clan's tired old terror tactics?

Liz is the latest. Cheney child number one made the headlines this week, with an innuendo-laced video questioning the loyalty of lawyers who represent Guantanamo detainees. "The Al Qaeda 7: Who are they?" Asks the voice on a video released by Cheney's supposedly nonprofit, non-partisan new hit squad. (They call it an advocacy group?)

Liz is playing from a battered old family play book. Shortly after September 11, it was her mother out there, accusing people of lack of patriotism. Lynne Cheney teamed up with Senator Joseph Lieberman to release a report which accused colleges and universities of being the "weak link in America's response" and naming 117 professors and students whom they called "short on patriotism" and "hostile to the US and western Civilization"

Watch: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/540286/aren_t_we_cheneyed_out_yet


Not to be outdone by his women, barely a month has passed between 2001 and today in which Darth Vader patriarch Dick Cheney didn't accuse some Democrat or another of endangering the homeland. The former vice president's training in bait and snitch dates back to the 60s when when he spied on Students for A Democratic Society meetings, jotting down names for his then-boss Donald Rumsfeld in an attempt to cut government funding for public colleges. .........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/540286/aren_t_we_cheneyed_out_yet

[babylonsister]

1. I am. Someone needs to tell 'the media' to stop covering them. If

no one is listening, maybe they'd go away.

In the meantime, I'm enjoying the very bad press they are finally getting.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Covering stuff like this

keeps the corporate media whores in the lifestyle to which they have become accustomed and keeps them from having to actually do real journalism and cover things that might make their corporate managers (masters) happy- but I can't say I'm not happy to see the Cheneys finally getting some backlash from their antics. They had to go pretty far out on a limb, though, before some pretty prominent conservatives (whom are ALWAYS late to the party with their "mea culpas") finally publicly announced that they had gone too far even for them. A lot of us already thought that the Cheneys had gone too far by repeatedly attacking President Obama for nearly a year over national security matters for not totally continuing their illegal torture and "national security" regimen despite the fact that even President Bush (to his credit, I guess) eschewed a lot of it during his second term but, hey, I guess whatever works for them, right? :eyes:

[mmonk]

3. Yes and no. Yes on having the Cheneys lie and brag about illegal

acts they committed on our TV screens. Yes on that nothing has or will be done about it by any party, any lawyer, any government official, any political party, anyone in position to enforce the laws of the United States and its commitments. No in that it reminds me and keeps me trying to change this country and its dark tendencies and in exposing its hypocrisy and lies.

[Berry Cool]

4. They're creepy and they're kooky

Mysterious and spooky
They're altogether ooky
The Cheney family

They're on the TV scre-en
You cannot help but see 'em
They make you want to scre-am
The Cheney family

(da-da-da-dum) Dick!
(da-da-da-dum) Ick!
(da-da-da-dum, da-da-da-dum, da-da-da-dum) He's sick!

So turn off Liz and her dad,
They'll only drive you quite mad,
The crap they pitch is so sad,
The Che-ney fam-i-ly (*click* *click*)