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 would love for Lynne Cheney to run for President in 2008. I would vote for her in a nanosecond.
No, Blitzed. It's an opportunity that you took to ambush your guest.
Bravo to Mrs. Cheney for throwing it back at you with equal force.
;-)
Or maybe a cigar?
If Wolf had half the intelligence that Lynne Cheney has he wouldn't have put himself in the position of getting slapped down by her, this shows his lack of it.
I saw bits and pieces...she made Blitzhead look foolish....I wish more Republicans were as hard hitting...
"I watched it. Super great. She handed Doggy's ass to him."
Excuse me, but I don't agree. Go back and count the number of times that Wolf drove Webb's and the democrat's talking points in Lynn Cheney's face. She acted well under the onslaught, but she clearly was a defender, which she should not have been.
If that is considered a win over CNN, God bless us.
I'm Whitey Big Chief..........
Hehehe
It just goes to show you how desperate the Socialist Libs are. They have nothing so they try to smear smear smear. Even then they have nothing!
You HAD to know that the MSM would try to turn this around on Republicans somehow. Democrats are NEVER at fault with them, and never apologize for anything.
It sounds like a descriptive name for someone into bestiality.
Nice to meet you, Tabby. I'm Spot Maple. ;-P
I thought it was middle name/street name.
Wow! I guess I've been reading the wrong books!
As a woman, I'm impressed. But I would that guys would have mixed feelings about anyone who can do this trick.
Butterscotch Maricopa.
SUPER STUD!
So even if a republican did something racy, that would make it fine for a democrat to do something because ....? Don't voters have a right to decide what they think of Jin Webb's writings, regardless of what Lynne Cheney ever wrote? I get so sick of coverage of a "game" between the parties with no recognition that what matters is the public's welfare.
I'm Blitz Cheryl.....can I change that to Chery Blitz?
No trip is too long for a liberal to contort things in such a way to insert their dogma and talking points.
I thought it was the street you grew up on.
In which case ...
Rusty Route 3 reporting for duty :)
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