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Lynne Cheney went to pimp her latest book (no Western lesbian scenes, sorry, folks) on The Daily Show. True to his distaste for the vitriol that passes for news discourse on most American stations, Jon kept it civil, but made his points, albeit while admitting that it was both uncomfortable and unfair to hold the wife responsible for actions of the husband.
The most revealing point was when Cheney trotted out that most tired Republican line that we haven’t been attacked since 9/11. Thankfully, Jon showed–in the most polite way possible–how completely disingenuous that talking point is.
CHENEY: You know, I think when the history books are written, that we will look back on this period of time and we will say, on 9/11, we really thought within six months, we would be attacked again, maybe six weeks. It’s been more than six years and that is not an accident. I think this administration - my husband and the President - deserve a lot of credit for that.
STEWART: Okay.
CHENEY: Good (laughter)
STEWART: Well, alright. There was, I mean, there was the anthrax thing. And then there was-well, you know, the first time they bombed the World Trade Center, it was eight years until we got attacked again. And they weren’t apparently doing anything…
CHENEY: Well, yes, but there were many attacks in between 1993 and the World Trade Centers coming down in 2001. Remember the USS Cole, for example. There were worldwide bombings going on, the bombings in embassies in Africa. So the terrorists weren’t reluctant to damage American interests and kill Americans. Friends?
STEWART: We are friends, it’s just…you know they have been doing that all these past six years. They’ve been…I mean, you know, the Spanish bombing and the English bombing and all the bombs in Iraq…
CHENEY: Yes, but I’m talking about American interests
STEWART: Aren’t we interested in…? Alright, I assumed that they were our allies.
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She’s takes that lying patriarchal line: Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes. They attempt to make their own truth, taking dimwitted women like her along with them.
Cheney’s batshit crazy wife is crazier than Malkin and Coultergeist. What is it, the full moon that is bringing these nutjobs out?
it’s o.k., jon, sheeee creeeaaated him-yes, jon, she is the madam frankenstein in our midsts.
I absolutely refuse to watch any video of that fascist bitch. She and her monster husband should take the next shuttle out to the space station and stay there till the end of time.
Blackwater operatives attack U.S. Army Soldiers in Iraq!
From Newsweek:
Oct. 15, 2007 issue - The colonel was furious. “Can you believe it? They actually drew their weapons on U.S. soldiers.” He was describing a 2006 car accident, in which an SUV full of Blackwater operatives had crashed into a U.S. Army Humvee on a street in Baghdad’s Green Zone. The colonel, who was involved in a follow-up investigation and spoke on the condition he not be named, said the Blackwater guards disarmed the U.S. Army soldiers and made them lie on the ground at gunpoint until they could disentangle the SUV. His account was confirmed by the head of another private security company. Asked to address this and other allegations in this story, Blackwater spokesperson Anne Tyrrell said, “This type of gossip has led to many soap operas in the press.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21163806/site/newsweek
I watched this….believable….oh yeah….very believable…..loved it when the audience went………OHhhhhhhhhh.
Did you see that look she gave Jon when he asked (about Darth), “When he’s wrong, at home, does he say…? Ick. She refused to answer that and said she’d rather talk about the war.
I think she was trying to show her softer side(as if)……..I’ll betcha she makes a run for Sen seat from Wyoming….Liz Dole incarnate
CHENEY: Yes, but I’m talking about American interests.
So human beings who live on other continental land masses are less important than those of us from the center of North America? Is an Iraqi life less valuable than an American? Maybe she could reveal her ranking of human beings in order of valuability.
Hey, you have to feel sorry for her at some level…she has to face Dick daily.
Cheney’s asinine statements are another example of American Exceptionalism. As long as terrorist attacks do not happen on American soil, then those attacks are acceptable. Unfortunately, Stewart apparently was not up to the task of explaining to this wife of one of the leading neoconservatives that it is because of the belligerent presence of the U.S. military in the Middle East that terrorist attacks are occurring in Europe as well as in Iraq. The largest accumulation of terrorism in the world is located in Iraq but that group is not al-Qaida; rather it is the United States military, which serves as the biggest recruiting tool for al-Qaida regarding its brutalization and occupying of the Iraqi people. But these statements were brought out by neither Lynne Cheney nor that liberal icon, Jon Stewart.
You could say, she’s obssessed with Dick and she always has Dick on her mind. She worries about Dick and probably thinks Dick works too much, but she has gotten as far as she has in life by serving Dick as best she could.
if she is going to count military targets on the other side of the planet like the USS Cole, then we have been attacked thousands of times in iraq and afghanistan. terrorist attacks have gone up significantly since bush/cheney invaded iraq.
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Errol…cut him some slack…..they could make him have an unfortunate accident………..I wouldn’t put it past them..
I will say it was refreshing to see two people so completely on different ends of the spectrum be able to talk about things without the name calling, yelling, and talking over each other like we see everywhere else. I disagree with her 1000% on everything she said but at least, in the short conversation they had, you could get a glimpse of the why she believes what she does. Albeit completely ridiculous!
raymond @ 13:
Yeah..I guess you could say…..she truly loves Dick………………………………………………………………………………..hurllllllll
I’d have crucified her…
raymond @ 11:
And don’t forget, they never spend a minute apart because he keeps her in his man-sized safe.
I’d rather eat week old eat dog vomit than watch her on the tee-vee. She is the spouse of someone who is pure evil. She is happy to prosper by her husband’s evil. She stays with that slimeball of her own free will.
Oh, horse hockey, Stewart dropped the ball.
He really needed to ask her why she has spent the last few years writing nothing but kid’s books?
Due to her bona fides she was on Dubya’s short-list to be Vice President in the 2000 race.
First Vice Lady Cheney is just as, if not more evil than Dick is.
(x-posted from elsewhere…)
What’s The DEAL with First Vice Lady Lynne Cheney?
“Get ‘em while they’re young” is a tried and true indoctrination strategy that worked well for the likes of The Soviet, Chairman Mao, and Adolph Hitler, just to name a few.
I mean why else do you think it is that First Vice Lady, Lynne Cheney, Big Dick’s old lady, who in addition to her Ph.D in 19th century British literature, who was also on the short list to be Busch’s Republican Vice Presidential running mate in 2000, and who is a Senior Fellow in Education and Culture at the American Enterprise Institute,who served on Lockheed Corporation’s Board of Directors from 1994 to 2001, and who co-hosted CNN’s Sunday edition of Crossfire for 3 years, from 1995 to 1998, has spent the last 5 years of her professional life, with *all of that* in her background….
Has been publishing Children’s Books?
Say what?
And not just any kiddy books, but the kinda nationalistic, jingoistic, crap that would have made Josef Stalin so jealous that he’d a wet his pants and blush.
Given her track record, I don’t think First Vice Lady Lynne Cheney is putting her energy into an on-going project like this out of a desire to ‘give something back’, or the goodness of her heart, or any other some such crap like that.
It’s more along the lines of helping build a drone army of easily influenceable and malleable undereducated idiots that will be ready in 12 years to do their duty, for God, Country, Halliburton and Blackwater.
And her work in this area is just one small tiny piece of a much larger puzzle. Check out the textbooks that have come out of Texas that have flooded America’s schools from the 1980’s on.
Essentially what the goal was was to destroy a generation of Americans by kicking out the basic building blocks needed to create a Middle Class, and as far as that goes, I’d have to say…
Mission Accomplished.
~nwa
CHENEY: You know, I think when the history books are written, that we will look back on this period of time and we will say…
Trust me Lynne, when historians look back on this period of time the name “Cheney” will be synonymous with a warmongering fasicst sociopathic liar. Children will read in their history books about the attempted fascist coup led by Dick Cheney and the neo-cons. Your great great grandchildren will carry the shame of their last name.
Smack_dab @ 20:
you might need some super hot sauce…..and some butter
Dave @ 5:
Agreed. She and her husband are fascists. They don’t get any air-time with me.
It was a video, no wonder I couldn’t find it.
Here is what the ultimate goal of First Vice Lady Lynne Cheney’s “Children Literature“ is.
Like I said, she’s just as evil as her husband, and the stuff she’s doing on her own would make both Stalin and Goebbels blush and wet their pants.
Still, as messed up as it is, I do find this funny.
~nwa
At the end of the day, Jon Stewart does what he’s told, just like everyone else on TV.
He forgot to ask her how demonic alien sex was.
Screw Lynne Cheney. I remember her from the 1990’s when she was a hateful hack spewing garbage on TV about the Clinton’s. I could tell last night that the witch in her was just bubbling beneath the surface. Let’s not pretend she’s Prudence Goodwife and a victim of her man’s misdeeds.
At the end, when she waxed poetic about how she thinks adults should be able to do what they want, etc., I wanted to hurl. If she really believes that, then it makes her an even more vile person to me for selling out her beliefs for politcal/financial gain. But then again the rich and powerful don’t get that way by being good people.
There are very few people that I hate, but Lynn Cheney is one of them.
I wish here the least of luck in hell.
…should say ‘her’
Casper Wyoming is perhaps the most depressing hellhole in the United States.
She and Dubya’s mother are perfect examples of why it is wrong to suggest that Coulter is a sex-change recipient as some explanation of Coulter’s behavior. Women can be just as evil and uncaring as the evilest man.
she said that with a straight face
she is a sick fuck of a human being
she and dick deserve each other
so when is the right gonna attack stewart for that “gotcha” moment
fuck the wingnuts…everyone of them batshit crazy
Those boos are the remnants of the American conscience.
Nyc W. Alberts @ 25:
LOL…yeah……that’s funny……..hey he can’t help it…geeeeezzzzuuussssss…
Wasn’t the nightclub in Bali targeted because there would be Westerners there? Specifically, Americans and Australians. In 2002.
Then there was this…
“Shortly after the attacks at the nightclub in Kuta, there was a bomb blast near the honorary American consulate in nearby Denpasar, Bali’s capital. No one was injured.
No group took responsibility for the attacks but suspicions immediately fell on a radical Islamic organization based in Indonesia, Jemaah Islamiyah. The group and its leader, Abu Bakar Bashir, have been linked to plots against Americans by an operative of Al Qaeda who was seized in Indonesia and turned over to the Central Intelligence Agency several months ago.
American officials described the bombings as terrorist acts, and said that they appeared to have been aimed at the United States. An F.B.I. team was en route to the bombing sites, a senior American official in Washington said last night.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f.....A9649C8B63
Last I checked, Hitler was human too.
Jon is truly a decent man. Imagine a seasoned Jon working that interview.
Does anyone really believe that if the Cheneys didn’t have a gay daughter, they wouldn’t be out there pushing for a constitutional ammendment banning same-sex marriage?
So Stewart could have attacked her, no kidding. That would have resulted in nothing but short term satisfaction for most of us. Maintaining composer and respect in the face of evil while being true to one’s principle beliefs is…well, golden. Well done.
BTW- I don’t recall ever hearing the Cheney’s voice their distaste for a gay marriage amendment?
Of course, the most logical answer as to why no more of our ships have been attacked like the USS Cole, or that no more embassies have been bombed as happened in Africa is that we learned something from the first attacks. The World Trade Center was attacked twice but the two attacks didn’t even resemble each other. It’s not too likely that anymore aircraft will be hijacked and used as missiles again either. Lynn Cheney fancies herself to be an educator but she gives no one credit for learning from experience.
I guess Stewart would have been civil to Eva Braun as well. What a guy!
She said she is writing a children’s book on the constitution. With her writing it, how accurate could it be? It is a joke. None of the jerks have a clue what the constitution says and when they quote something they twist it like everything else to support what they are saying. I sure as hell would not want any kid of mine reading her book!
Why fight them over here when they can fight us over there?
JIHAD! Don’t leave home to have one.
Stewart is a hypocrite, unfortunately. He complains about the Dems being wishy washy, and then he has the chance to blast the Cheney bitch for unloading a pile of horseshit, and instead he decides to err on the side of “civil discourse”, which he always does when he has a guest that his audience wishes would be taken out and shot.
Lynn is a lesbian. She didn’t write about SISTERS for nothing!
She’s also just as EVIL as her NAZI husband. She went around her organizations trying to shut out liberal viewpoints. She is UNAmerican and is taking up way too much space on this planet.
Her laugh makes me want to puke right on her wrinkly old face!
Speaking of the forgotten anthrax attacks, it looks like the F.B.I. is putting the same amount of diligence and vigor into the Blackwater investigation.
GonzoD @ 38:
I’m not sure what your point is. This is how change will take place. People meet gay people, realize there’s no threat being posed to their way of life, and opinions are changed.
Unrelated point; the world needs more Jon Stewarts, Bill Cafferty’s and Dan Rathers.
switchgrass @ 39:
It seems that as long as their base isn’t reminded over and over that the daughter of their fearless leader is gay, the Cheneys are fine with teh gay. Just don’t ask questions and remind them or the viewers of that fact. Keep it on the down low.
What? She didn’t say,
“When it comes to filling our disastrous national void, not to mention saving our own asses from ecological and economic disaster, we can learn more from the world’s poor than they can ever learn from the “American experience,” or gain from the “American lifestyle” or national ethos of greed.”