The Latest October Surprise: Lynne Cheney

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[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.

[Rocko]

Did I miss something, Wolf-Wolf? What seat is Mrs. Chaney running for?

[Texas Songwriter]

LC. "Well, Wolfe, since you want something sensational that I wrote, sorry I cannot give that to you because it doesn't exist. But I will say this . "Wolfe, go have sex with yourself."

[Arizona Carolyn]

Amen

[La Enchiladita]

You go, Lynn!

Wolf is an arrogant gas bag.

[msnimje]

Even if Mrs Cheney did write such a thing, was it between consenting adults? Was it demeaning to women or include a Banana?

[petitfour]

Good for Mrs. Cheney, and shame on Wolf Blitzer for changing the subject from a children's book to some graphic nonsense that has nothing to do with Mrs. Cheney.

I agree with Mrs. Cheney that I don't want to turn on the tv or radio if the scenes from Webb's novels are going to be read over and over again. I don't want my children hearing this stuff.

[1035rep]

Lynne Cheney laying down the smack. Wolf looked like a fool.

[Wings-n-Wind]

Slapped the terrorist supporter down.

The only (retrospective) sweeter add-on would be a polite handshake, "Thanks for having me on, Wolf......

...and walking off the set leaving them 3-5 minutes of "wha'happened..." dead air. Methinks

[Joe 6-pack]

"i thought Wolf Blitzer was just a porno stage name?"

Most people think porno stage names are frivolous inventions, there's actually an exacting formula behind their creation which involves combining the name of your first pet with the name of the street on which you reside.

[Republican Wildcat]

She probably thought she was back on Crossfire...she hasn't lost her touch.

[catbertz]

Wow!!1! She was ROCK SOLID! She took no grief from WB, and stood her ground firmly. This is a good lesson for actual GOP politicians. Get a backbone like Mrs. Cheney.

[chrismich2610]

LOL!

[Da Mav]

Waaahooo! I rarely watch TV, but this one was a classic.

Lynne Cheney made me stand up and cheer. Literally. Both on what is transcripted here and the stuff just preceding it about water boarding.

[STARWISE]

SHE GAVE NO QUARTER!! Bravo .. awesome, Lynn .. keep 'em straight!

[Jeff Gordon]

Lynn handed Blitzer his ass on a platter. Good for her!

[Raebie]

"Most people think porno stage names are frivolous inventions, there's actually an exacting formula behind their creation which involves combining the name of your first pet with the name of the street on which you reside."

My god. I'm Tabby Woodfox.

[SkyPilot]

"The books include some graphic sexual passages, as well as frequent uses of a racial slur for blacks and descriptions of Vietnamese women as "monkey-faced." ___________________________________________________________________________________

– Something to Die For: "Fogarty . . . watch[ed] a naked young stripper do the splits over a banana. She stood back up, her face smiling proudly and her round breasts glistening from a spotlight in the dim bar, and left the banana on the bar, cut in four equal sections by the muscles of her vagina." William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY 1991, 1st Ed. (hardcover), p. 36.
Quote is from para. 29, Chap. 2 “The South China Sea,”, Section 2

[tommix2]

...and walking off the set leaving them 3-5 minutes of "wha'happened..." dead air.She should have left immediately after Wolf's opening sentence.

[Kaylee Frye]

"Most people think porno stage names are frivolous inventions, there's actually an exacting formula behind their creation which involves combining the name of your first pet with the name of the street on which you reside."

My god. I'm Tabby Woodfox.

If you think that's bad, I'm Mishkin Inglewood. Hmmm, Somehow I don't think anyones' gonna be watching that. ;)

[Joe 6-pack]

"My god. I'm Tabby Woodfox."

You most certainly are...;-)