‘To me, Liz Cheney is Obi-Wan Kenobi,’ says WaPo columnist on PBS News Hour

Fox News ^ | August 7, 2022 | Lindsay Kornick

[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."

[Paladin2]

“These are not the RINOs you are looking for...”

[M Kehoe]

Bye bye Liz.

Sorry to have known you.

5.56mm

[JBW1949]

Jonathan Capehart, you are an idiot of the first order....

[EvilCapitalist]

Liz Cheney is lower than whale dung on the floor of the Marianas trench.

[McGavin999]

She has one vote.

[Rastus]

More like Jabba the Hutt.

[Huskrrrr]

She’s as a cheap slut, in a dive Star Wars cafe.

[No_Mas_Obama]

Hahaha notice how even these idiots still compare to the original Star Wars not the woke trash that Disney puts out these days. Going to be fascinating to see what American culture looks like after these gas bag morons have all moved into the afterlife. Certainly can’t get any worse.

[Nifster]

A Wa Po idiot

[DoughtyOne]

Yes, she's a sage alright.

Gag me with a pitchfork!

[Zathras]

Faux News is in for another surprise in 9 days.
AZ was just the first of many butt kicking Faux is going to get.

[Howie66]

Best stick to the comic books, Skippy. Obviously, serious journalism is not your forte.

[nwrep]

So potent and extraordinary is the Trump hate that lifelong liberals are embracing an anti-abortion, gun-loving, climate change-denying (their words) conservative Republican just because she also hates Trump.

[AndyTheBear]

Yeah, the way Liz was silenced when her Twitter account was canceled. The way there are so many times the government has put her on trial just because they are jealous of her popular support. Sure she is a real martyr and populist champion for those that feel abused by those in government authority. We can judge from the size of her political rallies and huge ground swell of Arizona voter support how angry voters will be when the primary is stolen from her, and her supporters are even slandered as terrorists and thrown in jail to be made an example of for protesting the steal.

This guy is so spot on...in opposite world that is.

[Fledermaus]

More like Bobo Fett

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Remember when her dad was Darth Vader!

[gundog]

Capehart and New York Times columnist David Brooks...

There’s a pair to draw to....

[Chad C. Mulligan]

The staff at WaPo must take weekly apophenia booster shots.

[AnthonySoprano]

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There should be about 250 Republicans attacking Cheney, but we see the opposite.