Posted on 10/27/2006 3:38:18 PM PDT by Dog
Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, took on CNN Friday evening during an interview with anchorman Wolf Blitzer.
Transcript:
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 oo 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 in cross fire.
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 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 apology ies 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.
As you know, Secretary Rice is the President's Sec. of State. Lynne Cheney holds no office and is not a diplomat. Lynne wasn't in an official meeting, she was on a tv show. That is one of the most stupid comparisons I have ever seen. It is typical cowardly, one-liner sneak-attack hit-and-run bashing from you, however. Coming on a thread in praise of Lynne to bash Condi. You are a sick puppy.
Thanks .. just emailed it out
WOLF: The answer of course is we want the united states to win
We? What's this WE stuff? Notice he didn't say "I" here.
Good catch. The American people all know who the WE is Wolfie.
OMG if you think having Dick Cheney as VP would drive Demos nut how about him as First Mate LOL!
Excellent, yes, I really wish she'd followed up hard on that point (but she was awesome and could not begin to address every problem with Wolfie and CNN).
That lib mantra of "we just want to make people think" is often applied in such ludicrous ways, as in this case. Obviously CNN was happy to try to make people "think" exactly what the terrorists want us all to think.....
She also could have said, "So, Wolfie, just how often do you accept videos from non-terrorist sources and pop them right onto the air in order to make people 'think'?? Do you handle videos from conservative organizations in the USA this way? Would you pop onto the air any video sent to you by business corporations or religiously conservative groups in order to help the liberal drones who watch CNN think? No, I didn't think so....it has to be a terrrorist propaganda video to arouse all this interest from CNN!"
Yeah, but not what happened to her. Not yet anyway.
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