Posted on 10/27/2006 2:49:26 PM PDT by pissant
Wolf Blitzer attempted to sandbag Lynne Cheney today, but that the former Chair of the NEH wasn't buying any of it. Incredibly Blitzer drags the Second Lady of the United States into the dust-up over the novels of James Webb, airing Webb's defense which wrongly drew a comparison between his novels and Lynne Cheney's novel. Blitzer even goes so far as to read the DNC talking points to Cheney, who had been booked to discuss her new children's book, The 50 States. Cheney's outrage is obvious, as is Blitzer's recognition that he had crossed a line which he ought not to have crossed.
Bravo to Mrs. Cheney for chucking it back at Blitzer.
The entire interview will air next hour, but with just this clip CNN is already again exposed as a reliable purveyor of DNC spin. I will post the transcript as it arrives and play it on the air, but if the base needed more motivation, seeing this ambush will provide it. I don't know the circumstances of the invitation tendered to Mrs. Cheney, but it sounds as though CNN had booked her to talk about her book, and then used the time for other purposes.
If you post on this interview, send me a link. Disgust at MSM bias has been mounting throughout the election season, and this is just another though very high profile example of why that disgust exists.
UPDATE: Here is the transcript of the segment that played last hour:
WB: Democrats are now complaining bitterly in this Virginia race. George Allen using novels, novels that Jim Webb, his Democratic challenger, has written, in which there are sexual references. And they’re making a big deal out of this. I want you to listen to what Jim Webb said today in responding to this very sharp attack from George Allen.
LC: Now do you promise, Wolf, that we’re going to talk about my book?
WB: I do promise.
LC: Because this seems to me a mighty long trip around the merry-go-round.
WB: I want you to respond. This is in the news today, and your name has come up, so that’s why we’re talking about it. But listen to this:
James Webb: There’s nothing that’s been in any of my novels that in my view, hasn’t been either illuminating the surroundings, or defining a character, or moving a plot. I’m a serious writer. I mean, we can go and read Lynne Cheney’s lesbian love scenes if you want to, you know, get graphic on stuff.
LC: You know, Jim Webb is full of baloney. I have never written anything sexually explicit. His novels are full of sexually explicit references to incest, sexually explicit references…well, you know, I just don’t want my grandchildren to turn on the television set. This morning, Imus was reading from the novels, and it’s triple X rated.
WB: Here’s what the Democratic Party put out today, the Democratic Congressional Senatorial Campaign Committee. Lynne Cheney’s book featured brothels and attempted rape. In 1981, Vice President Dick Cheney’s wife, Lynne, wrote a book called Sisters, which featured a lesbian love affair, brothels, and attempted rapes. In 1988, Lynne Cheney wrote about a Republican Vice President who dies of a heart attack while having sex with his mistress. Is that true?
LC: Nothing explicit. And actually, that is full of lies. It’s not…it’s just absolutely not true.
WB: But you did write a book entitled Sisters.
LC: I did write a book entitled Sisters. This description…
WB: And it did have lesbian characters.
LC: No, not necessarily. This description is a lie. I’ll stand on that.
WB: There is nothing in there about rapes and brothels?
LC: Wolf, Wolf, could we talk about a children’s book for a minute?
WB: We can talk about the children’s book. But I just wanted to…
LC: I think our segment is like 15 minutes long, and we’ve now done ten minutes, so…
WB: I just wanted to clarify what’s in the news today, give you a…
LC: Sex, lies and distortion. That’s what it is.
WB: This is an opportunity for you to explain on these sensitive issues.
LC: Wolf, I have nothing to explain. Jim Webb has a lot to explain.
I watched it. Super great. She handed Doggy's ass to him.
What a slimeball....glad LC stood up for herself. We need more conservatives to do the same when they get backed into a corner in the media.
I bet Mrs. Cheney won't be elected in November.
I would LOVE for Lynne to run for POTUS...she is smart, AND tough.
I have stopped watching CNN because of the sniper snuff video...but I will listen to Hugh Hewitt's show.
Oops. There go the Dems playing the lesbian card. They seem to love to bring it up. Didn't work too well for them last time. Gotta think their Gay/Lesbian constituency is getting a little tired of it.
i thought Wolf Blitzer was just a porno stage name?
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That's a compliment coming from you. LOL!
This is exactly how to handle the press. Bush is getting better at it too. He manhandled the press in his last press conference and Rummy is the master. The GOP house and senate candidates need to take notes.
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Excuse me Wolfie, but Ms. Cheney is not running for office. Webb is. I think that's a big difference.
Whatever happened to respect and courtesy???? She's the wife of the VP, for heaven sakes!! Wolf Blizter is white trash.
Oh for goodness sake. How inappropriate.
Wooo hooo! I just saw the interview - Mrs. Cheney was great!!
Great comeback from Webb and the liberal camp. "But, but, but, Lynne Cheney wrote about this..."
That's all well and good, but neither Lynne Cheney nor any of her family members are running for office. Besides, she never wrote about anything as disturbing as what Webb did.
If anything, Lynn Cheney is even tougher than her husband. And I think very highly indeed of Dick Cheney.
How Wolf Blitzer could have been so stupid . . . well, I'll take that back. The MSM is getting stupider by the day. Someone fed in his talking points, like feeding a punch card into an old IBM robot, and he just came right out with them. Idiot.
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