Lynn Cheney in CNN sitdown, slapdown: Do you want Amercia to win??????
CHENEY: You made a point last night of a man who had a bookstore in London where radical islamists gathered. Who was in Afghanistan when the Taliban were there. Who went to Pakistan. You know, I think that you might be a little careful before you declare this as a person with clean hands.
WOLF: You are receiving to the CNN “Broken Government” special. This is the one John King reported on last night.
CHENEY: Right there, Wolf. ‘Broken Government.’ What kind of stance is that? Here we are. We are a country where we have been mightily challenged over the past six years. We’ve been through 9/11, we’ve been through Katrina. The president and the vice president inherited a recession. We are in a country where the economy is healthy. That’s not broken. This government has acted very well. We have tax cuts responsible for the healthy economy. We are a country that was attacked five years ago. We haven’t been attacked since. What this government has done is effective. That’s not broken government. So, you know, I shouldn’t let media bias surprise me, but I worked at CNN once. I watched a program last night.
WOLF: You worked on CROSSFIRE.
CHENEY: …And i was troubled.
WOLF: All right. Well that was probably the purpose, to get people to think. To get people to discuss these issues. Because —
CHENEY: Well, all right. Wolf, I’m here to talk about my book. But if you want to talk about distortion —
WOLF: We’ll talk about your book.
CHENEY: Right, but what is CNN doing? Running terrorist tape of terrorists shooting Americans. I mean, I thought [Rep.] Duncan Hunter asked you a very good question, and you didn’t answer it. Do you want us to win?
WOLF: The answer of course is we want the United States to win. We are Americans. There’s no doubt about that.
CHENEY: Then why are you running terrorist propaganda?
WOLF: Well all do respect, this is not terrorist propaganda.
CHENEY: Oh, wolf.
WOLF: This is reporting the news. Which is what we do, we are not partisan.
CHENEY: Where did you get the film?
WOLF: We got the film, look, this is an issue that has been widely discussed. This is an issue we reported on extensively. We make no apologies for showing that. That was a very carefully-considered decision why we did that. And I think, I think —
CHENEY: Well I think it’s shocking.
WOLF: If you are a serious journalist, you want to report the news. Sometimes the news is good, sometimes the news isn’t so good.
CHENEY: But wolf, there’s a difference between news and terrorist propaganda.
Wild Thing’s comment…….
God bless Lynn Cheney! I am so proud of her, so very proud!!!
I hope we see more and more of this. CNN needs to be brought down to their knees ( at least that) if not worse! Blitzer is a worthless POS.
Wolf Blitzer is not a journalist. Like most other on-screen personalities at CNN he is a copy reader–an actor with enough literacy to read news copy written by wire services or rewritten by CNN writers from newspaper copy. “Broadcast journalism” is, with few exceptions, an oxymoron. His partisan, political hit piece on the Bush administration just prior to an election demonstrates how corrupt he is. Blitzer has the ethics of a crab louse.
Lynne Cheney lets CNN have it
Lynne Cheney on CNN with Wolf Blitzer:
CHENEY: You made a point last night of a man who had a bookstore in London where radical islamists gathered. Who was in Afghanistan when the Taliban were there. Who went to Pakistan. You know, I think that you mi…
Oh hell yes!
Hooah – she is a true Patriot!
“Blitzer has the ethics of a crab louse”. That’s beautiful, WT. The crab louse is Ted Turner, whom Lynn Cheney referred to as of of Blitzers “bosses”.
I noticed elsewhere in the blogosphere that when Blitzer said CNN was committed to reporting the truth, Lynn replied that she had two words to disprove that:
She said “Eason Jordan”, CNN’s version of Baghdad Bob.
At the end Blitzer was whining that Mrs. Cheney came “well prepared”. What a dork.
that was great to watch. At least she got an admission out of Blitzer, that you probably woudn’t see other journalists make: that he wants the US to win. But of course he then screws himself by saying “we’re non-partisan” as if showing that sniper film was a democrat-republican thing, instead of a right-wrong thing.
Thanks WT, I’d have never seen that since I refuse to pay homage to Communists like Blitzer and CNN. These are the people that want to impeach president Bush. Do they really want Dick Cheney as the Boss? I’d love to see that then let Lynn Cheney go for their jugulars, she isn’t as timid as Laura Bush is, I also think Dick would be less diplomatic when he stomps the guts out of a few of those lizards.
Lynn was entirely correct to rap that pinko ratbastard alongside the head, I suppose anyone reading the Communist Manefesto can call themselves a journalist, follow the script and work for CNN.
That terrorist sniper video was intended to demoralize the troops and embolden the enemy. CNN should be tried for fraternizing with and aiding and abetting the enemy. Communist bastards.
Dick Chaney is one very fortunate man. He’s got a beautiful wife who can take it to the liberals and kick butt.
New York Times Not biased? You Decide.
Seems Mr. Johnston disagrees and claims he reported fairly. I laugh because I rarely have seen any article in the NYT that has not shown bias, but you decide for yourself.
After reading my original post here, then read his response to me, then min…
c.a.Marks, giggle I agree.
Greta, she sure is.
Rhod, oh wow that is great! Thanks Rhod for telling me about that, I love it.
Annika, exactly you are so right.
Jack, big smile, thinking of what you said. How they would hate Dick Cheney even more then they hate Bush. Just too funny. They better keep their mouths shut and be glad Bush is President and not Cheney. giggle
Bob, I agree he sure is. I bet he is proud of her too. They are a neat couple.