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‘To me, Liz Cheney is Obi-Wan Kenobi,’ says WaPo columnist on PBS News Hour
Fox News ^ | August 7, 2022 | Lindsay Kornick

Posted on 08/07/2022 4:07:16 PM PDT by conservative98

Washington Post and MSNBC contributor Washington Post and MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart compared Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and former President Trump to Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader in "Star Wars" on Friday.

Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks appeared on "PBS News Hour" with Judy Woodruff to discuss various topics, including Cheney's upcoming primary.

Brooks called Cheney "a hero," but noted she is behind her Republican challenger by more than 22 percent and likely to lose her seat. That's when Capehart praised her as comparable to a beloved Jedi.

"And, look, I keep thinking about the scene in ‘Star Wars: Episode IV,’ when Darth Vader and Obi-Wan Kenobi are battling it out on the Death Star. And Obi-Wan says to Darth Vader, ‘If you strike me down, I will come back more powerful than you can imagine,’" Capehart said. He explained, "And, to me, Liz Cheney is Obi-Wan Kenobi. If she loses, which she very well might lose her primary on August 16, she could very well come back more powerful than Donald Trump has imagined. And if her goal is to ensure that he never comes within any manner of feet of the Oval Office, if she can succeed in doing that, she will have done a major service to the American experiment."

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To: conservative98

Obi Wan can bXxX me.


21 posted on 08/07/2022 4:16:58 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: All

I’ll be happy when we don’t get any more Cheney posts on this board.


22 posted on 08/07/2022 4:16:59 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: conservative98

“If she loses, which she very well might lose her primary on August 16, she could very well come back more powerful than Donald Trump has imagined.”

Dream on. Capehart and Brooks aren’t this stupid. They know the GOP rank and file don’t support the Liz Cheneys of the world. The Deep State will prop her up as an independent candidate, just as they did with Evan Egg McMuffin in 2016, and like McMuffin Cheney will be an insignificant factor in 2024.


23 posted on 08/07/2022 4:17:02 PM PDT by dowcaet
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To: AnthonySoprano

Pitiful.


24 posted on 08/07/2022 4:18:15 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: conservative98

Capehart outed himself with this one.

Lizard as Obi Wan??!!


25 posted on 08/07/2022 4:19:11 PM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: conservative98

If Monkeypox could be a person, it would be Liz Cheney.


26 posted on 08/07/2022 4:19:59 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The only way to secure your own future is to create it yourself.)
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To: conservative98

PBS, fearing that they will not achieve their goal of sinking lower than any entity in the history of the multiverse, has attained a 90 degree pitch attitude, lit the afterburners, and are hoping that their silly worthless lib arts degrees will save them from what we will delightfully witness in the hopefully not distant future. They are indeed a true example of a “ship of fools”.


27 posted on 08/07/2022 4:20:44 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: conservative98
Exactly how was she supposed to come back?

The majority of the GOP clearly detests her, even many of those who are not ardent Trump supporters themselves. And for the Democrats, she's only a momentary ally of convenience. They hate pretty much everything about her except that she hates Trump.

Maybe a talking head or part of some pseudo-conservative think tank. That's about it.

28 posted on 08/07/2022 4:24:45 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: conservative98

Dick Cheny was portrayed as Darth Vader. How does this make Liz in Obi Wan?

Liz is more like Emma Goldman, a lesbo anarcho-communist.


29 posted on 08/07/2022 4:26:11 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: conservative98
I keep thinking about the scene in ‘Star Wars: Episode IV

Really Jonathan?

Johnny boy might consider thinking about the reality of "Election Night: Episode II, The Republic Strikes Back."

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30 posted on 08/07/2022 4:28:22 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Redmen4ever

Jar Jar Binks is on a higher political level than Liz Cheney.


31 posted on 08/07/2022 4:28:34 PM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: No_Mas_Obama

“Certainly can’t get any worse.”

BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA, you could not be more wrong.


32 posted on 08/07/2022 4:29:19 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: conservative98

The farce is with her.


33 posted on 08/07/2022 4:29:50 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: conservative98

Wipe the drool off your chin, Jonathan. It’s unbecoming.


34 posted on 08/07/2022 4:31:24 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: conservative98

Is that the little troll from Star Wars?

Yeah, I could see that.


35 posted on 08/07/2022 4:32:05 PM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: conservative98

Obi-Wan the TV Show?

Terrible and Bisexual?


36 posted on 08/07/2022 4:32:25 PM PDT by UNGN
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To: conservative98

“If she loses, which she very well might lose her primary on August 16, she could very well come back more powerful than Donald Trump has imagined.”


Just how does that happen, Jonathon? Who or what constitutes her base? democrats? Think she’ll be a force to be reckoned with the democrat party?

Where can she go to win any elective office? New York has a history of welcoming carpet baggers. Maybe she can run for Senate like Hillary did. But it’s a bit late for her to challenge Schumer this fall. Maybe she can go after Gillibrand’s seat in ‘24, but she might have to deal with AOC.

Hope there aren’t enough dems in Wyoming to let her win her primary.


37 posted on 08/07/2022 4:32:42 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: conservative98

This hack writer should get out of the DC Swamp and go interview Citizens
Of WY about Hag Cheney.


38 posted on 08/07/2022 4:32:46 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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To: conservative98

Did WAPO get bought out by the Babylon Bee?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA


39 posted on 08/07/2022 4:33:25 PM PDT by DMD13
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To: conservative98
And Obi-Wan says to Darth Vader, ‘If you strike me down, I will come back more powerful than you can imagine,’" Capehart said.

That works for fantasy movies and religious martyrs, not for Patsy Schroeder-types who will whine because their idiot constituents won't vote the right way.

May the Democrats have a hundred Obi-Wan Kenobes.
40 posted on 08/07/2022 4:33:41 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (What was 35% of the Rep. Party is now 85%. And it’s too late to turn back—Mac Stipanovich )
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