CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Calls Out Lynne Cheney For ‘Sniping At My Patriotism’
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Calls Out Lynne Cheney For ‘Sniping At My Patriotism’
On Friday, Lynne Cheney repeatedly attacked CNN for having a liberal bias during a combative appearance on the Situation Room. At one point, she criticized CNN for “running terrorist tapes, terrorists shooting Americans” and asked Wolf Blitzer, “Do you want us to win?” She also repeatedly asked Blitzer to end his line of questioning and focus on her new children’s book.
Today on CNN’s Late Edition, Blitzer said he was “surprised” at Cheney’s “sniping at my patriotism,” and pointed out that CNN had specifically labeled the tape of a U.S. soldier under fire as terrorist “propaganda.” He also said that CNN had made clear to Cheney’s staff “only hours before the interview” that she would be asked questions about politics during her appearance, not just about her children’s book. Watch it:
Full transcript:
BLITZER: On Friday in the Situation Room on CNN, I interviewed the wife of the Vice President, Lynne Cheney. The interview generated quite a bit of commotion and we are going to replay the unedited version. First, some history. I have been covering the Cheneys for many years, including on a day-to-day basis when he was the defense secretary during the first Gulf War and I was CNN’s Pentagon correspondent. This — Mrs. Cheney has been a frequent guest on my programs. I have often invited her to discuss her new children’s books. She always is open to discussing the news of the day.
In this most recent interview, she, of course, knew we would would be speaking about politics. That was reaffirmed to her staff only hours before the interview. As a former co-host of Crossfire during the 1990s, she knows her way around the media. She was never shy about sparring with Democratic strategist and co-host.
I was surprised when she came out swinging on Friday, surprised by what she said about the “Broken Government” series and the excellent one-hour report by our chief national correspondent John King. One of the most precise and respected journalists in Washington. The decision to air sniper video which Anderson Cooper branded, I’m quoting now, “a single propaganda tape.” Surprised at her sniping at my patriotism.
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WTF would any of 5-deferment Dickhead’s family know about patriotism. Did Dickhead join the army? Is any of his family enlisting to fight in Iraq? No? I didn’t think so.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:05 pmLynn Cheney is a moron.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:05 pmWell, Wolf–you, along with most of the media, have acquiesed to this administration for so long, it should have been no surprise that Ms. Cheney would sharpen her claws on anyone who suddenly started asking challenging questions that give the viewer a broader perspective of the current regime.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:07 pmLynne Cheney is mouthing the current line of GOP attack strategy. Asking someone whether or not they want the US to win the war in Iraq is logically fallacious. Then again, when has logic ever matter to Bush ‘n’ Friends? For another example, consider Bill O’Reilly’s appearance on Dave Letterman in which he asked the same thing and Dave handed back a good answer.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:08 pmPoor Lynne, all her hard work, and history will know her primarily as the wife of the first vice-president to be impeached in the US.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:09 pmLynne Cheney is a typical Republican scumbag.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:09 pmLynne wants Wolf water dunked for making her lie her ass off to save face. And what a face it is…. night of the living dead.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:12 pmYes, Wolf, being a real journalist is hard-work. The royal elite don’t like you asking them tough questions.
But don’t let it stop you now. You’re one of the few in newsland that actually has the backbone to ask these questions at all. And if that’s not a true Patriot, then I don’t know what is. Be proud of yourself. This is what Thomas Jefferson expected of you.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:13 pmThats funny Lynn Cheney is a war monger of the AEI [enterprise$$ for$$ war$$] think tank. The sister ship of the PNAC nation building wackos
October 29th, 2006 at 1:15 pmwasn’t SHE the one who brought up the propaganda tape?
this new meme, “do you want us to win?”…
October 29th, 2006 at 1:16 pmo’lielly pulled it on letterman also…
it’s everywhere, it’s everywhere!
Joke her if she can’t take a f*ck.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:20 pmFor years, Blitzer and the media have given Bush&Co a lot of slack in interviews, not challenging their lies and distortions; in reporting the news, they have subtly and not so subtly slanted coverage to favor Bush&Co; and today Blitzer found that Cheney – like all of Bush&Co – will have nothing to do with you if you challenge them. You either support them unconditionally, or you are nobody, one of the unwashed, someone to be insulted and ignored, if not personally attacked.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:24 pmIt’s about f’ing time! I didn’t think it would take this long. Geeez.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:32 pmWolfie has been really good lately. I just hope he keeps it up.
Especially when it was supposed to be a peace operation, to free the people from a brutal dictator, and not to start a civil war. Mrs Cheney has lost her ‘course’ some time ago.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:36 pmPoor WB, he lets the administration disseminate one lie after another with barely any challenge, is a slack and dull interviewer, often unprepared, but now he gets some gumption when he feels personally insulted.
Too little, too late, WB! Where was he while the country itself has suffered massive insults to its legacy, history, values and reputation? I’ve seen him roll over and play dead time after time. If you think this is hyperbole, check mediamatters.org to see how he’s played the game thus far.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:40 pmWhy didn’t Wolf get around to asking what she is spending her blood money on? Cheney’s are War Profiteers making millions off of dead Americans. Cheney instigated the Haliburton KBR no bid contracts.
Since 2003 there has not been one single investigation or oversight action into 1.1 BILLION Haliburton has overcharged. Congress GOP has stopped three Dem investigations.
I STRONGLY recommend “Iraq for Sale” for both Dems and Rep. it is a shocking indictment and one that every taxpayer has a responsibility to see.
http://iraqforsale.org/
Free showing are be presented in your community. Please check it out if you are at all interested in the way your taxpayments are spent and accountability.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:46 pmIt’s heartening to see the media elites start to feel the heat….what the rest of us have felt for a long time..namely that we are branded anti American if we criticize the king. Maybe they’ll start to put 2 and 2 together. Would be nice.
October 29th, 2006 at 1:54 pmWhy didn’t Wolf say this while Mrs “Dick” was on his show?
October 29th, 2006 at 1:59 pmWolfie, now do you realize what the Republicans will do to you when you question them? They thought you were on their side. They view you as a tool.
Blah, blah, blah…yeah, it’s the useful idiot thing again.
October 29th, 2006 at 2:00 pmJoke her if she can’t take a f*ck.
Comment by Badmoodman
Oh my god….is it possible to die laughing?
October 29th, 2006 at 2:06 pmLynne Cheney is an operative. She deserves and requires to be treated like one. And while it’s shocking to see Blitzer show a hint of emotion, fair play to him: perhaps he’s been spending too much time talking to Jack Cafferty.
The ’sniper tape’ fracas was pure intimidation politics. Duncan Hunter admitted he’d not seen the segment. At that point, Blitzer should have politely ended the interview.
October 29th, 2006 at 2:06 pmStock Options
That still would leave the possibility that Cheney could profit from his Halliburton stock options if the company’s stock rises in value. However, Cheney and his wife Lynne have assigned any future profits from their stock options in Halliburton and several other companies to charity. And we’re not just taking the Cheney’s word for this — we asked for a copy of the legal agreement they signed, which we post here publicly for the first time.
The “Gift Trust Agreement” the Cheney’s signed two days before he took office turns over power of attorney to a trust administrator to sell the options at some future time and to give the after-tax profits to three charities. The agreement specifies that 40% will go to the University of Wyoming (Cheney’s home state), 40% will go to George Washington University’s medical faculty to be used for tax-exempt charitable purposes, and 20% will go to Capital Partners for Education , a charity that provides financial aid for low-income students in Washington, DC to attend private and religious schools.
The agreement states that it is “irrevocable and may not be terminated, waived or amended,” so the Cheney’s can’t take back their options later.
The options owned by the Cheney’s have been valued at nearly $8 million, his attorney says. Such valuations are rough estimates only — the actual value will depend on what happens to stock prices in the future, which of course can’t be known beforehand. But it is clear that giving up rights to the future profits constitutes a significant financial sacrifice, and a sizeable donation to the chosen charities.
http://www.factcheck.org/article261.html
In one of the largest sums ever donated to charity by a U.S. public official, Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne gave away nearly $7 million last year to help the poor and to medical research.
According to income tax information released by the White House on Friday, the Cheneys’ adjusted gross income in 2005 was $8,819,006.
The sum was largely the result of Mr. Cheney’s stock options from Halliburton and royalties from three books written by Mrs. Cheney.
The Cheneys gave more than three-quarters of their income – $6,869,655 – to several charities, including George Washington University’s Cardiothoracic Institute and a charity for low-income high school students in the Washington, D.C. area, Capital Partners for Education.
The Cheneys’ charitable generosity stands in marked contrast to that of their predecessors, whose sometimes stingy donations became a national embarrassment.
In 1997 for instance, Al and Tipper Gore contributed just $353 to charity, a sum that raised eyebrows even in friendly media circles.
The Los Angeles Times noted, for instance, that the Gores’ slender donation “caused some bewilderment in philanthropic circles because of the vice president’s ‘good guy’ image as an advocate for public service and social causes.”
The same year the Gores gave $353 to charity, they reported $197,729 in adjusted gross income.
October 29th, 2006 at 2:08 pmi am not really convinced by cheney’s attorney telling me cheney is innocent of any wrongdoing with regard to his personal finances. cheney does not pay an attorney so that attorney will tell people asking questions that his client is breaking the law or some ethics rules or is some laundering lots of money! duh!
October 29th, 2006 at 2:19 pmWell, Wolf, this could possibly serve as a fricking wake up call for you enablers of Sir Lies-A-Lot of Crawford.
October 29th, 2006 at 2:25 pmWhat a wonderful time to be a sane human being. Funny how truth and progress always win in the end.
October 29th, 2006 at 2:27 pmI don’t have a whole lot of sympathy for you Blitz. You’ve done your share of covering for bush, in that regards, I’ve been questioning your patriotism for years.
October 29th, 2006 at 2:28 pm#22 f+b+a, that double humped camel still isn’t going to make it through the eye of a needle or any where else…….You’re post, I would bet is the tiny tip of a huge iceberg full of illegal cash and evil doeing’s by this miserable pair…Cheap white wash paint does not cover black…….
October 29th, 2006 at 2:34 pmok – this gave me a headache, but i do understand logic, and so this part sticks out to me:
sell the options at some future time and to give the after-tax profits to three charities.
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Comment @ 2:08 pm
does this mean – they get to keep the original options’ value ?
October 29th, 2006 at 2:37 pmanyone?
Lynn Cheney is a bad person, a bad American, and an untalented writer. She has no clue as to what love of country means. Loving you country certainly doesn’t mean bamboozling the American public in order to enrich the military industrial complex on the backs of our grandchildren.
October 29th, 2006 at 3:03 pmSo, the wife of the nation’s biggest America-betraying war profiteer is also a sellout. No surprise there.
October 29th, 2006 at 3:05 pmWell, Wolf, good night, and good luck.
October 29th, 2006 at 3:12 pmHonestly who goes on Wolf expecting to discuss a childrens book?
October 29th, 2006 at 3:17 pmHonestly who goes on Wolf expecting to discuss a childrens book?
Comment by Tundra — October 29, 2006 @ 3:17 pm
exactly my first thought…
October 29th, 2006 at 3:19 pmLynn, You seem a little stressed. Your husband is not popular, his war is not going well and it llooks like the Democrats will take control of Congress and start keeping tabs on what he does. Not only that, but he has had several heart attackes and it he shoots his gun off prematurely. Is it really the book you need to talk about? Is there a reason you write about Lesbians in your adult books?
October 29th, 2006 at 3:24 pmGiven that she was coming on his show, Wolf should have prepared some clips from Cheney’s “Sisters” just in case she lied about its content, which she did. He didn’t need to spring them on her cold; but he could have had them in reserve.
October 29th, 2006 at 3:32 pmHonestly who goes on Wolf expecting to discuss a childrens book?
Comment by Tundra
Obviously, Her Ladyship, the Duchess of “Dick.”
October 29th, 2006 at 3:35 pmGeorge W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove use minorities like Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Ken Mehlman and Alberto Gonzales to push their repulsive agendas and they use the “Broad Squad” of Lynne Cheney, Laura “Pickles” Bush, Karen Hughes and Mary Matalin to try and put a human face on their inhuman agendas.
Cynics and power mongers with small minds and cold hearts.
-GSD
October 29th, 2006 at 3:40 pmCome on Lynne, it is days away from an important election and you go on CNN expecting to talk about childrens books? You were going on “Late Edition” not “Wolfies Playhouse”.
-GSD
October 29th, 2006 at 3:42 pmSure, why shouldn’t Lynne Cheney be able to come onto a national news program and plug a children’s book she has allegedly written? The Cheneys should be helped in their quest to keep their income at Dick-Cheney-Halliburton-CEO levels. These aren’t just common people. These are the elite, the aristocrats of our country and they shouldn’t be treated like common people whose children fight the Cheneys’ wars for them.
October 29th, 2006 at 3:44 pm#28 – Oh yes, they absolutely do get to keep the stock options. Those’ll be cashed in at some opportune time after Cheney leaves office. This legalistic mumbo-jumbo of giving some profits to charity is on the same level of altruism as the late Howard Hughes’, and no better.
October 29th, 2006 at 3:46 pmOttimo sito!!! Complimenti!
October 29th, 2006 at 3:57 pmLooks like Wolfie has caught on that the wheels have come off and he’s desperately trying to extract his proboscis from the administration anus.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:25 pmHopefully for Putzer, just in time to put on some lipstick and make-up so he can climb in with the new boys.
As Dr. Johnson said, “The prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man’s mind wonderfully.”
Nice try Wolfie.
Why don’t the Democrats want to answer that question? Seems like they are falling into a trap by avoiding it. I mean, how could you be patriotic and not want us to win?
October 29th, 2006 at 4:33 pmEvery chance he gets her husband declares that anyone who’s against the Iraq war is aiding and abetting terrorists. It seems to me Blitzer got off easy having his patriotism questioned. Lynne Cheney did just what all of the Republicans running for re-election are doing … going on the attack because they have no good answers for any of the tough questions. Lynne Cheney and her greedy, heartless husband deserve each other! And as for Wolf Blitzer, he and his colleagues (Jack Cafferty excepted) have given the Bush administration a free pass for years and now he’s going to whine because the vice president’s wife doesn’t make nice with him? If you’re looking for sympathy, Mr. Blitzer, you’ll get none from me.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:34 pmWhat’s the reason for Cheney wearing a prayer rug around her shoulders ?
October 29th, 2006 at 4:36 pmIf Lynne Cheney did not have the Republican pointbook to go by, she probably would not have an original thought in her head.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:38 pmGive the story legs…. Lynn Cheney and Lieberman…
October 29th, 2006 at 4:40 pmits even funnier, because wolf has KISSED ASS all through this administration.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:44 pmall that brown-nosing didnt seem to buy him any brownie points.
Lynn puts the Dollar Sighns in TERRORI$$$$$T$….
October 29th, 2006 at 4:46 pmRemember Terrorism=CA$$$$$$$HHHHHH
Yeah, I started blogging about this as soon as I heard O’Reilly ask Letterman the same question as I’d heard Cheney ask Blitzer. I could see it was the new tack of the idgets.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:47 pmDemokat
She’s a vicious little scumbag and pathological liar.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:49 pm#28 – Oh yes, they absolutely do get to keep the stock options…
Comment by sponson — October 29, 2006 @ 3:46 pm
thank you!!!
a simple, straight, honest answer to my simple question!
i love when that happens!
(see how that works, matcha?)
October 29th, 2006 at 4:50 pmWho does Ms. Cheney think she is? President Clinton? This was a reverse Wallace/Clinton interview. Lynn Cheney wrote sexually-explicit materials in her books and won’t fess up to it. She doesn’t have the courage to defend her daughter from the right’s war on homosexuality. Far be it from her to question other people’s courage and patriotism. She cares more about being the good wife than it appears anything else. When your in a position of power, for goodness sakes use it!
YEAH CARDINALS!!
October 29th, 2006 at 4:50 pmThe only scum-bag I can’t stand to listen to more is Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC)
October 29th, 2006 at 4:51 pmShe sounds like a F#ucking Guy with that southern drawl.
I have never heard a worse southern drawl,,,I mean she is obviously faking it.
Lynne Cheney’s demeanor is distinctly that of a Republican Mommy.
See an excerpt of the new children’s book WHY DADDY IS A REPUBLICAN
http://tootruthy.blogspot.com
October 29th, 2006 at 4:51 pmwaterboard the woman and see what she really believes.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:51 pmKEITH OLBERMANN HAS EMBOLDENED TV REPORTERS EVERYWHERE! Pass it on.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:53 pmLynne Cheney’s demeanor is distinctly Republican. See
WHY DADDY IS A REPUBLICAN
October 29th, 2006 at 4:54 pmLOL Markie. Ya it ain’t torture. She can take it.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:56 pmOh, well, if they labeled it propaganda, then that’s fine.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:58 pmA little dunk never hurt anyone.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:58 pmLynn Cheney made a fool of herself. She was downright belligerent toward Wolf. She evaded and denied her slutty prose in her novel, and it proves she is no better than Webb when it comes to writing fiction novels.It should be noted that Webb’s novel is on the recommended reading list of the US Marine Corps. It’s time that CNN get tougher with Bush and his gang of neocons and rightwing punks who’ve created a disaster for the USA in Iraq and Afghanistan. They never had a plan. Bush has just been flying by the seat of his poopy stained pink panties. Baker will be stepping in after the mid-term to get Dubya out of his Iraqi mess. The process has already started by telling the Iraqi government that they need to set benchmarks. The Iraqi government is corrupt just like Bush’s White House. These people are a total disgrace to both the Iraqi and American people.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:58 pmYEAH CARDINALS!!
Comment by blindprogressive — October 29, 2006 @ 4:50 pm
hey! now there are 2 of us!
October 29th, 2006 at 4:58 pm(lots of mets fans… hehehe)
Who do you want to win? The Shiites, The Sunnis, or the Kurds?
It’s a loaded question, I wouldn’t answer it either. Rephrase the question please.
October 29th, 2006 at 4:59 pmI would have asked her about scooter libby’s wacky novel.
October 29th, 2006 at 5:00 pmIf there is a God we will have the last laugh and Lynn “Scum-bag” Cheney will pissing herself in the corner cause her sorry-ass husband will be going to f#ucking jail…And I hope Jim Webb will be on the comittee that “Shuts This Mother-F#ucker DOWN!!!”……
October 29th, 2006 at 5:04 pmBut we probably won’t because of the God damn paperless machines…
To Katy at #28 — Bingo! The Cheney’s have been enriched immensely in the last six years even if they don’t buy another share of Halliburton stock.
October 29th, 2006 at 5:06 pmWOWWW!!! all of this time I thought the Axis of Evils were other countries, only to find that all the cheneys, rumsfelds and rice were the real Axis of evils. If only George knew.
October 29th, 2006 at 5:07 pmWOWWW!!! all of this time I thought the Axis of Evils were other countries, Comment by mike — October 29, 2006 @ 5:07 pm
October 29th, 2006 at 5:09 pmYou mean the “Axis of Total F#ucking Dumb-Asses”
i’m not worth a flip at posting on any site. For now i just want to make an observation about the buildup of our forces in the persian gulf. one little slip up and pearl harbor was a picnic in the park by comparasion. can anyone say silkworm(s) and russian high speed torpedoes. how many velociraptors would it take to kill a t-rex?
October 29th, 2006 at 5:20 pmi believe that the god i pray to made birds so we would desire to fly and fish so we would learn to swim and deep dive in the waters that he supplied for us. And when i step into the dark at night i look up and see a twinkling sky. why would he have put them where they are in great abundance if he didn’t want us to consider/dream about going to those stars and their planets.
lastly. Why do we have this rapture/armeggedon thing? am i wrong in my thinking that christianity is the only religion that has the end of life/end of the world/final war mentality? how can they consign us all to an evil death and a few ‘lucky people getting off scott free when the son of my god came to us as the prince of PEACE?
what if revelations is a crytic question? is there an alternative? What if Jesus returned to a world at peace. food in abundance, clean water and air, everyone being a steward of the many gifts we have been given. no one dying at the hand of another, a large international group working together to find and produce an evironmentaly freindly way of going to the stars, having programs in place that no matter how down and poor a person is there will be others to lift that person up. So what would Jesus do? Seems to me he would start making a lot of that clean water into wine, get the music started, do that loaves and fishes thing, pick up children and adults, hug them, get a bunch of laughing going on. in other words i think he would have a party, much better than that armeggedon thingy!! in closing, a muddy path is better than no path.
with best regards and good thoughts toward all,
traildust
Re: post #22:
If anyone possibly could believe that Cheney would dole out 3/4’s of his earnings to charity then it must be good season for the psychiatrists. Are you kidding me?! We know how stuff like that works a la tax-recovery schemes et al. But what has his dictatorial benevolence got to do with selling centrifuges to Iran when he was CEO Halliburton for example? Or with the war crimes that he’s orchestrated in Iraq? Or with all those beautiful American kids he sent to an early grave in Iraq and Afghanistan? That’s what Mrs, was squeaking about, life after the White House and the wrath of the people and the ghost of our dearly departed that’ll haunt and hound them and their generations to the grave… or better put, to hell.
October 29th, 2006 at 5:21 pm“Do you want us to win?”
No, ms. Cheney. I want America to win.
October 29th, 2006 at 5:21 pmRe: post #22:
If anyone could possibly believe that Cheney would dole out 3/4’s of his earnings to charity then it must be good season for the psychiatrists. Are you kidding me?! We know how stuff like that works a la tax exemption and recovery schemes et al. But what has his dictatorial benevolence got to do with selling centrifuges to Iran when he was CEO Halliburton, for example? Or with the war crimes that he’s orchestrated in Iraq? Or with all those beautiful American kids he sent to an early grave in Iraq and Afghanistan? That’s what Mrs was squeaking about, life after the White House and the wrath of the people and the ghosts of our dearly departed that’ll haunt and hound them and their generations to the grave… or better put, to hell.
October 29th, 2006 at 5:24 pmShes a delusional pig.
October 29th, 2006 at 5:49 pmCNN has been surprisingly critical lately of Bush and his policies. Tonight Lou Dobbs is doing a program on e-voting. He’s been on top of this longer than any other commentor, I think. As always, Jack Cafferty has been a “reality-based” voice. CNN is late to the table, but they’ve been doing a good job in the weeks leading up to this election. Of course, the people who should be listening to what’s going on in our country are listening to the propaganda arm of the Republican party–Fox News.
October 29th, 2006 at 5:53 pmWho cares what the first ladies have to say during elections time, when the first husbands don’t get it right all year around?
October 29th, 2006 at 5:58 pmWhat a nasty, unprofessional, undignified woman Lynne Cheney is. I am ashamed to have both her and her husband in power in America. They
October 29th, 2006 at 6:01 pmthrive on divisive, partisan mudslinging but can’t take being challenged.
Children’s book? Give me a break. I wouldn’t want my child learning anything from the Cheneys.
Looks like CNN cares! So that’s the way to show some opposition, go after their wifes!
October 29th, 2006 at 6:02 pmPicture her with Dick’s dick in her mouth. Now, do ya feel better? I know I sure do.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:07 pmYea Wolf! Beat up by a woman who refuses to genuflect to you and can pound you witless. Pardon, more witless.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:09 pmYou know the showing of insurgency video it’s another example of fake opposition to this administration by the CNN network. But you already know that….
October 29th, 2006 at 6:10 pmthank you, traildust…
October 29th, 2006 at 6:10 pmi share many of your thoughts and observations… all well put…
Wolf – why not unearth Terri Schiavo for your usual one-sided interview tactics so as to salve your wounded ego?
October 29th, 2006 at 6:10 pmWhat an appropriate name for CNN’s lead attack dog .. Wolf Blitzer – combining the names of a viscious canine quadruped carnivore and a Germanic warmonger. And we know he wages war ONLY on the lesser beings who have their hope in a real Deity, not Harridan Hillary.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:15 pmand then there’s obi dibia… wooh! …that was good too!
seems santo wants in on the fun too…
October 29th, 2006 at 6:17 pmFinally – Lynne Cheyne demonstrates that someone in Washington has the guts to stop treating liberal elite news commentators like plaster saints. Pardon, plaster garden gnomes.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:17 pmPicture her with Dick’s dick in her mouth. Now, do ya feel better? I know I sure do.
Comment by mr.ed — October 29, 2006 @ 6:07 pm
He should be so lucky! His heart can’t take it.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:20 pmMost of you preceding this comment are blithering idiots. And most of those I refer to are of the Loony Left.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:20 pmkaty you must have special powers, or completely out of your mind, unless you have something against santo, what’s the matter? Why do you see her every where?
October 29th, 2006 at 6:23 pmImagine Hillary with Penis-Nose Bill’s dick in her mouth. Can’t do it? Of course not. She prefers fish taco sandwiches. I still think Chelsea resembles Howdy Doody too much for it to be a coincidence.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:24 pmRobin, did you just arrive here from Sherwood? Wolf Blitzer has been giving the Bush admin a tongue bath for the last six years. He only spoke up when his patriotism was questioned.
Lynne Cheney should emotionally prepare herself and her family for the coming investigations and possible impeachment.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:27 pmDo you eat your wife with that mouth, Robin?
October 29th, 2006 at 6:28 pmMost of you preceding this comment are blithering idiots. And most of those I refer to are of the Loony Left.
Comment by Creight
Crawl back under your bed, I think it’s dry now.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:29 pmY’know, with a name like Robin (also a girl’s name), I wouldn’t be casting aspersions at others’ handles.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:31 pmRobin….brilliant comment. Do you have your GED yet or are you sitting at home stroking yourself watching internet porn and feeling really guilty when you go to church? You really are over your head here arent you?
October 29th, 2006 at 6:34 pmBe patient, NASCAR starts again sometime in the spring.
Barfly are you accusing Cheney of cannibalism? Explain to me, i am not from around here……:)
October 29th, 2006 at 6:35 pmDo you eat your wife with that mouth, Robin?
Comment by barfly — October 29, 2006 @ 6:28 pm
Not lately … your wife has been getting in the way.
Oh … and I noticed that you had no problems with comment #79 and #88 as long as the fellatio is a slur of Republicans – let me paste it here for your comment now …
Picture her with Dick’s dick in her mouth. Now, do ya feel better? I know I sure do.
Comment by mr.ed — October 29, 2006 @ 6:07 pm
But, mr.ed must be a stud.
Enjoy, barfly … yet another screen name redolent of the smarm that infects American liberalism
October 29th, 2006 at 6:36 pmMichael, I think Robin has a Lynne Cheney sexual fixation.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:36 pmOh my, I do believe I’ll take my delicate self away from this particular thread…
Ya’ll clean up after you’re done…
October 29th, 2006 at 6:37 pmWolf,
You were shocked? Seriously? Pay more attention to what Jack Cafferty has been saying.
Send ‘em all home with a smile:
http://www.nakedholidaycards.com
October 29th, 2006 at 6:39 pmSorry you had to see that Zooey. But this is fast becoming the boys’ locker room thread. Can’t you hear the snapping towels?
October 29th, 2006 at 6:39 pmThank you michael and barfly … when you can’t attack the substance of the argument, attack the defender. You sure know how to represent the best of the US Leftists. Too bad you can’t send me to Siberia as your patron saint Josef used to do.
By the way, michael, in your league? I refuse to lie down in gutters.
Now zip up your barfly.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:40 pmEnjoy, barfly … yet another screen name redolent of the smarm that infects American liberalism
Comment by Robin+of+Locksley
Coming from a fictional character, I’ll take that as a compliment.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:42 pmaack! good idea, zooey!
October 29th, 2006 at 6:42 pmThey are both total ass….s. Nuf
October 29th, 2006 at 6:42 pm
And don’t forget to wipe your Locksley!
October 29th, 2006 at 6:42 pmNice to see others arguing over nothing.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:44 pmKaty do you have special powers yes or no?
October 29th, 2006 at 6:46 pmIt is a sad day indeed when the adults in our country resort to the tactics of playground children to shape political discussion in our country. Let’s forget for a moment that Blitzer and his ilk have been pretty pro-republican in their coverage, but for Lynne Cheney to charge liberal bias, and to question Blitzer with the “you want us to win” line shows a complete disconnect with reality or pure bullsh#$ propaganda from the wife of a vice president. Forcing someone in the corner to ask “youwantustowin?” shows an inability to hold an intelligent discussion on the subject, like O’Reilly on Letterman. These neo-con-nuts are a truly sad bunch of hypocrites as they had no problem dragging Clinton and America through the mud back when, holding up any progress we may have made. Sick people indeed.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:46 pmMethinks the supposed ‘Robin of Locksley’ perchance is the Madamoisele Ly’n Chaynee herself, what with the fixation on sex and all…. What say thee, foul poster? Hast thou aquired a blockage of thine literary energies?
October 29th, 2006 at 6:46 pmwhen you can’t attack the substance of the argument, attack the defender.
Finally – Lynne Cheyne demonstrates that someone in Washington has the guts to stop treating liberal elite news commentators like plaster saints. Pardon, plaster garden gnomes.
Comment by Robin+of+Locksley
Wolf Blitzer has been giving the Bush admin a tongue bath for the last six years. He only spoke up when his patriotism was questioned.
Barfly
I was dealing with the so-called substance of your comment (such as it was).
That you choose a fictional character to represent yourself invites ridicule – especially if you don’t exhibit any of the traits of said fictional character.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:47 pmComing from a fictional character, I’ll take that as a compliment.
Comment by barfly —
Coming from someone whose screen name proclaims her highest ambition to be a woman whose morals are so loose she’ll sell her favors for the price of a drink … I’m not insulted at all. I just pity you.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:48 pmI wonder how many Americans realize that this sudden interest in newscasters like Wolf Blitzer have found in going after “the truth” rather than the crap handed out by the thugs in power is due to the really remarkable editorializing and eloquence of Keith Olberman……the one “talking head” who has truly shown character and guts? America will come to realize that the eventual undoing of this corrupt criminal enterprise began with the comments of Olberman—-much as the eventual undoing of the drunken reprobate scum, Sen. joseph McCarthy, was initiated by Edward R. Murrow. There are still those among us—-in spite of what Bush and his henchmen think—who believe that a FREE AND INDEPENDENT PRESS is vitally essential for this or any democracy to survive. I thank God for the likes of Olberman….and truly appreciate MSNBC for allowing him to speak truth to power…tho I suspect that they have been pressured by the BUSH Organized Crime Cartel. There is still hope that America can get back on track and once again DESERVE the respect of the entire world. It all begins with NOV 7th….and the undoing of these murderous monsters. History will recall BUSH as not only the worst American President of all time—-but as a megalomaniac who’s madness almost set our world on fire. He and his gang should all rot in hell! Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and the rest of those slimy morons have the blood of countless thousands on their hands….but not a single drop of Osama Bin Ladens blood. They are cowards, liars, murderers, and because they will end up in Hell—will never have to face the thousands of American military personnel who died doing their bidding.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:49 pmLynn Cheney is married to the worst VP in the history of our country. Cheney replaces Agnew at the top of the stinking heap. Lynn has no choice but to make slimeball lying claims against the media as she can not speak the truth.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:51 pmAhh, to hell with this thread – I’m just going to grab my copy of Sisters and go lock the bathroom door.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:52 pmWhat a lame board!
October 29th, 2006 at 6:53 pmComing from someone whose screen name proclaims her highest ambition to be a woman whose morals are so loose she’ll sell her favors for the price of a drink … I’m not insulted at all. I just pity you.
Comment by Robin+of+Locksley
Hoo boy, are you off the mark! But continue, please. I enjoy your sillyness.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:54 pmThis is funny .. I comment on the story – but barfly, michael, aquafiero et al have to comment on my comments.
You guys all close ranks to attack the person, not try to support your supposed facts.
You’re the guys living in Never Never Land.
By the way, barfly, kudos for knowing Locksley lives in Sherwood. You must have gone to a parochial school to learn something about literture. You surely didn’t learn it in a US public school.
I have to go elsewhere … enjoy the fun, ladies and gents … I know how hard it is to resist getting off in the direction of someone who despises your lockstep politics.
October 29th, 2006 at 6:54 pmI believe its about time this group in the white house got there fingers slapped……….they have had it too good for 6 years. they have lyed to the american people too much
October 29th, 2006 at 6:56 pmPoor Locksley. Boo Hoo. You posted a comment, and I pointed out your error. Then you whine about others’ incivility and inability to address your points (which I did).
October 29th, 2006 at 6:58 pmLook at the number of comments, this country is biulding up a little guts.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:00 pmWho knows, if the Dems are fooled again and loss the House, maybe we can form a “Shadow Government” and let the Bushkivics worship there lil Dictator and the Pupput master…..There are too many good things in this world to pay any more attention to Politics. We get the Government we vote for..or not, either way I give up on it all and will to fishing. America, it was a nice idea.
There have also been episodes in which entire blog threads (or large portions thereof) with violently opposing views, were written and controlled by one single person or small groups, waiting for “real†liberals to enter the discussion. They will begin by posting a political position on a certain issue, then respond under a different name, contesting the first posters’ views, then respond again to the responder, hoping to lure in people with views opposite theirs. They often line their posts with insults and personal attacks to throw off any suspicious participants. Once they have lured the unaware blogger into their lair, the other names begin to gang up on the victim, depicting his views as extremist. Theywill not hesitate to use intimidation to take apart the “extremist†views of the unfortunate navigator. Little does the victim know that he may be under attack from a single person, or group, using different names, often with only one IP address. It’s cyber-bullying, if not downright gangbanging.
The goal of these fake bloggers’ activities is not necessarily to change the opinions of their opponents, rather, it allows them to catalogue the blogger as someone from the opposite camp. From that moment onward, the blogger is branded, and through the tracing of their IP address, can be stalked and followed.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:00 pmby mark th american……
Hey Katy, is this why you know santo is here?
I have to go elsewhere … enjoy the fun, ladies and gents … I know how hard it is to resist getting off in the direction of someone who despises your lockstep politics.
Comment by Robin+of+Locksley
Brave Robin, runs away. (Just like in the M. Python film)
October 29th, 2006 at 7:01 pmI knew you’d want the last word, barfly … folks like you live for that moment when you believe your suavity and wit outshine everyone else. Of course, it’s only a Parthian shot and folks just laugh. So long barfly, give my best to your next drink procurer – and brush the sawdust off your bum.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:03 pmThank you Sandy. Very interesting , i always thought things like this are going on around here.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:05 pmbarfly be kickin’ some Brave Sir Knight, Sir Robin ass…run away, Sir Robin!
October 29th, 2006 at 7:09 pmThe regime has done so bad, they have to get their wives to fight their battles for them. The defense rests.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:11 pmLooks like Katy took off too.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:12 pmSo, I mustn’t dissappoint.
So long barfly, give my best to your next drink procurer – and brush the sawdust off your bum.
Comment by Robin+of+Locksley
Does that pass for humor in Limeyland?
I just picture you sitting there in your green tights, sternly haranging me about my “problems,” and I laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:15 pm[doffs straw panama] Thank you, fair damsel Zooey!
October 29th, 2006 at 7:17 pmThank you, fair damsel Zooey!
Comment by barfly
Our knigget in shining armor…!
October 29th, 2006 at 7:20 pm# 123 Sandy, good point, how Katy was able to see someone that is not even on the board? Is she drunk? Or she sees what we can’t?
October 29th, 2006 at 7:25 pmCNN,
October 29th, 2006 at 7:25 pmWelcome to the real world! You have contributed to the propaganda machine from the Whitehouse for 6 yrs. History will put your network into perspective. The owners of CNN along with your so called reporters have enjoyed your huge taxcuts & have continually supported and slanted your interviews and reporting to forward the Republican agenda. Finally you have felt the wrath from the right because you did not ask Cheney cottonball questions. How does it feel? You have sold out your soul. It will take alot more from your network for redemption. But of course you want to continue to enjoy your tax cuts. May God help this Country.
It’s really pretty simple, standard Rovian politics:
When cornered, swing for the groin.
And, God, is this freak show cornered.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:31 pmIt’s funny that after 6 long years Wolf Blitzer didn’t know until now that if he daree to question a Republican that he would be labeled un-American.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:32 pmSandy, good point, how Katy was able to see someone that is not even on the board? Is she drunk? Or she sees what we can’t?
If you had ever been on a board infested by Santo, you would know. Santo posts truly incoherent ramblings, usually all caps. Santo won’t leave until banned, and he keeps coming back in other guises. He does the same at Raw Story.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:37 pmOh my god, barfly, that’s so f*cking funny. You’re responding to Santo. She’s talking to herself again.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:39 pmSh#t!!!!!
October 29th, 2006 at 7:41 pmBarfly and how do you know it? Do you know him/her? Are you sure?
October 29th, 2006 at 7:41 pmNo worries, barfly, we’ve all been caught by the Dread Pirate Santo at least once. :)
October 29th, 2006 at 7:43 pmNow that I know, I can tell by the little off-kilter snigglets that Santo can’t help but posting.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:46 pmZoey and how do you know it? Do you know him/her? Are you sure? Zooey?
October 29th, 2006 at 7:47 pmYes, Santo, I do know you, and I am sure it’s you. You seem a bit clearer today. Sleeping well?
October 29th, 2006 at 7:49 pmWho cares what the first ladies have to say during elections time, when the first husbands don’t get it right all year around?
Comment by Sandy
Looks like CNN cares! So that’s the way to show some opposition, go after their wifes!
Comment by Sandy
Little snigglets like these, where the poster forgets which side of the political fence she’s on.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:49 pmBarfly let me tell you , you don’t know a thing about santo,none!….:)
October 29th, 2006 at 7:50 pmExcellent Santo spotting, barfly!
October 29th, 2006 at 7:50 pmif stealing from the rich and giving to the poor is’nt communism, I don’t know what is. are you a communist, robin?
October 29th, 2006 at 7:50 pmGod, it’s all over for the Rethuglians if their own anchors are turning against them. I’m shocked to hear Wolf Blitzer criticizing the administration like this.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:51 pmIf you don’t know where she/he stands,that sounds to me you don’t know her/him. Barfly?
October 29th, 2006 at 7:53 pmYou’re fracturing too much again, Santo. Check the dosage.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:53 pmSurprised a GOP person just weeks before an election would use an appearance to promote a non-political book to launch political attacks and push the GOP agenda?
Surprised?
Come on wolf…
R
October 29th, 2006 at 7:54 pmZooey you know me? Or more like you spying on me? Which is it?
October 29th, 2006 at 7:54 pm“Do you want us to win?”
What kinda ass hole question is that?
NO lynn, we do not want YOU to win? OK?
The gig is up! We don’t want YOU and your neoCON trash to win more government contracts, distribute more Haliburton WELFARE, give away OUR money to the top 5% wealthiest.
So the answer to your asinine question is: NO we don’t want you, nor cheney, nor bush, nor any of your other TRASH to “win”.
If you don’t get it, you will on November 7 when we dump your sorry LYING, criminal, traitor asses!
October 29th, 2006 at 7:55 pmZooey you know me? Or more like you spying on me? Which is it?
Comment by Me — October 29, 2006 @ 7:54 pm
Zooey are you a spy?
October 29th, 2006 at 7:57 pmIf he was surprised then he’s a fool. They’ve been questioning the patriotism of everyone who questions them or disagrees with them since the start of this administrations reign of ineptitude. It’s what they do. Has Wolfe not noticed this for the last six years or did he fancy himself and insider and think he was exempt from having his patriotisim questioned. They Cheney’s aren’t patriots. They’re elitists who don’t think they are accountable to anyone – and they’re right – because no one has held them accountable. Mrs Cheney’s conduct on CNN was the outrage – not the questions.
October 29th, 2006 at 7:58 pmOh My Lord,
I don’t know if I want to get caught up in this…
Zooey is being wooed by barfly, and the jealous santo has swooped in.
Maybe I should just make some popcorn, sit back, and watch the action…!
October 29th, 2006 at 7:59 pm;)
Lynne ” smokey ” Cheney is a nasty old hag ! The bitch has written several trash Lesbian novels .
And as far as her whining , bitching and moaning about CNN being biased the old hag needs to take her fat ass back over to faux news where she can get drunk on the kool aide !
October 29th, 2006 at 7:59 pmIf you don’t know where she/he stands,that sounds to me you don’t know her/him. Barfly?
Comment by amstrong
Let me demonstrate:
You know the showing of insurgency video it’s another example of fake opposition to this administration by the CNN network. But you already know that…. Comment by Sandy
katy you must have special powers, or completely out of your mind, unless you have something against santo, what’s the matter? Why do you see her every where? Comment by Gilligan
Right on Sandy! Comment by amstrong
It’s not hard, when you know what to look for.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:00 pmOops, my wife’s calling . . .
October 29th, 2006 at 8:02 pmOMG, you liberals are deleting my comments!!!! You deleted all my back posts…you fascists bastards.
I have proof, I kept copies of the pages!
Thinkprogress deletes posts that don’t agree with them!
My vogon poetry!!
October 29th, 2006 at 8:05 pmbarfly,
I winked at the end.
No offense meant.
I apologize for anything perceived, felt, etc.
I was having fun. Sorry.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:07 pmJohn G I feel your pain man! Lol!
October 29th, 2006 at 8:08 pmso will wolf finally see, now that he has been slimed, what these rethuglicans do and how low they will go? will he now be as brave as olbermann? even half as brave?
October 29th, 2006 at 8:12 pmWolf is to the left. It’s obvious in all of these postings that agree with him. He let Chuck Shumer, Murtha, Durbin, Reid, Boxer, etc. carry on and run off at the mouth to no avail.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:13 pmNow i can understand if Santo busted one of your “national media trick”, but to the point of calling her names, that’s low and right to your standards…..:)
October 29th, 2006 at 8:13 pmZooey are you a spy?
Comment by Me me not you
No Santo, I am the all knowing Kapo. Time to sleep…
October 29th, 2006 at 8:14 pmSanto, and all the incarnations:
Please go to bed.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:15 pmPlease take your meds.
Come back tomorrow. No more tonight, OK?
OMG, you liberals are deleting my comments!!!! You deleted all my back posts…you fascists bastards.
We are not in control of the deleting, my dear. All of this will be gone in the morning, because of our Santo.
I have proof, I kept copies of the pages!
That’s disturbing on so many levels…
My vogon poetry!!
Comment by JohnG
The true loss in all of this…
October 29th, 2006 at 8:17 pmtrueblue,
WTF? barfly was not wooing me! He was redeeming his gentlemanly ways after posting some really gross stuff in response to Brave Sir Robin, above.
Oy, where’s that truck when you need it…? :)
October 29th, 2006 at 8:19 pmSorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
My bad.
vrrrrrrrrrrrrrrroooooooooooommmmmmm….
*thud*
I really didn’t mean to bring controversy to this fine Sunday night…..
October 29th, 2006 at 8:24 pmHey lefties, Dems and liberals. the Republicans haven’t even lost power yet and they are acting like aggrieved minorities already.
They are acting like the losers they always claimed they hated.
Whoo…Dick Cheney is gonna send his wife out to talk about childrens books…I bet Al Qaeda is quaking at that threat.
Maybe Bin Laden will give up now that Pickles Bush is Co-President!
-GSD
October 29th, 2006 at 8:24 pmwhat’s my penance?
October 29th, 2006 at 8:24 pmSanto, you’re one crazy motherf*cker, but you have a great memory.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:26 pmtrueblue,
Your penance is to wrangle Santo for the rest of the evening. Heh.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:28 pmZooey thanks, i don’t know should i cry now?
Comment by Santo
Yes, Santo. Cry yourself to sleep.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:34 pmZooey,
How about banishing me for a week?
That oughta’ teach me…….
C’mon…!
Wrangle Santo?
Was my offense *that* bad?
Ugh…..
October 29th, 2006 at 8:36 pmA pretty well connected mutherfu*ker i would say……:)
October 29th, 2006 at 8:37 pmWhere’s Unbelieveble ? So the whole gang is here.
Comment by Santo — October 29, 2006 @ 8:20 pm
I’m here. Surprised to see you. Managed to escape the IP police yet again, eh? Well, you are certainly the most determined person I have probably ever met…
October 29th, 2006 at 8:39 pmtrue,
As a mother you’ve heard of natural and logical consequences. This is your logical consequence. Dry your tears…
October 29th, 2006 at 8:40 pmSanto, you’re one crazy motherf*cker, but you have a great memory.
Comment by Zooey — October 29, 2006 @ 8:26 pm
I wondered how the posts shot up this high… I should have known :)
October 29th, 2006 at 8:40 pmtrueblue,
How’s your daughter?
October 29th, 2006 at 8:41 pmA pretty well connected mutherfu*ker i would say……:)
Comment by GURU….%&#$*
Possibly…
But I would say not real well connected in the synapse department.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:42 pmIt strikes me that there’s always this sort of boo hooing going on in these forums. Repubs need to come to grips with the fact that the party’s over. It dosen’t matter wether unnecessarily personal comments are made, in fact I think it’s the funniest sh*t Ive read in a long time (Lynne Cheney and Cock’s dick? Isn’t it broken or something?) but this type of talk has flown for my entire lifetime AS LONG as you’re bashing Dems. Now that the emperor’s clothes have been sold in the media and everyone’s wearing them Repubs are going to have to eat at least much crow as they’ve forced their opponents to eat. I’d like to see every member of the executive branch since Kennedy tried for war crimes. If they’re innocent, fine. Dems aren’t innocent in the types of things I’m talking about either. But suck it up fellas; the only way this’ll end is with 1) another well timed terrorist attack, 2) the declaration of martial law for any other reason (that’ll shut the media up, it’s the law) or 3) a victory for justice aka investigation of and proscecution for the obvious and numerous lies and thefts and murders perpetrated by these particular awful fascists.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:44 pmAwww, don’t take it too hard, Wolf. She was pissed, no doubt about it. As Jack Cafferty says, “Who cares?”
October 29th, 2006 at 8:48 pmHow’s your daughter?
Comment by unbelievable
eehhe…
No word on the eeg yet. School is giving us a bit of crap.
Seems the math teacher doesn’t like to stay after.
B-O-O, H-O-O
is pretty much the letter she’s getting tomorrow.
(not really. Just stating a routine of after school help has helped in the past, and I look forward, blah, blah, blah…)
Thanks for asking.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:49 pmBe careful what you say about poor Lynnie. She’s the one who has the key to Dick’s hunting gun lock-up.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:51 pmI guess robin got his tights in a knot….. santo – pleasure to see your capslock is broken
October 29th, 2006 at 8:55 pmUnbelieveble it’s a pleasure to talk to you too. How’s the kids at shool? Did you get finally a fast connection?
Comment by Santo — October 29, 2006 @ 8:47 pm
All the kids are great. They make working for the government some how tolerable :)
No, still slow. Until teachers get raises, it’s all I can afford… You do have a great memory.
So, Enzo – how’s Rome?
October 29th, 2006 at 8:57 pmnurse wratchet refused to spring for a new keyboard, huh?
October 29th, 2006 at 8:58 pmNo word on the eeg yet. School is giving us a bit of crap.
Comment by trueblue — October 29, 2006 @ 8:49 pm
Keep us posted. I hope it’s good news, and soon. Waiting is always stressful…
Ahhh, the megalomaniacal authoratarian types who love to become Administrators (and math teachers, I think)… We have one at my school. The man is a freaking Nazi. The kids hate him. And they wonder why the national high school drop-out rate is around 40%.
Have you considered doing ‘homebound’ for her while you’re working through this? Would force them to comply. Just a thought.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:00 pmAfter 30 years of drunk Tedy Kennedy, fat Tip O’Neill and and blow-job Bill Clinton jokes you damn well better be braced for the fat Dennis Hastert, drugged-up and impotent Rush Limbaugh and power hungry blood sucker, bad shotgun shooting Deadeye Dick Cheney jokes.
Suck it up Republicans….we’s gonna have some real fun with the bunch of losers your party and pundits have become.
-GSD
October 29th, 2006 at 9:01 pmHere’s a cartoon that gets down to the nitty gritty and breaks the Republican party down into its ten basic types. Its a triple threat cause its funny, sad and true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELfiVTTb5Jw
October 29th, 2006 at 9:01 pmI’m glad, as well, TerrytheTurtle,
but reminding him may not be the best move…!
October 29th, 2006 at 9:01 pm;)
I know, I made a doozy tonight and now barfly and Zooey are pissed!
;)
:))))
Call it a surprise.
Comment by Santo
Ok. Surprise!
October 29th, 2006 at 9:02 pmWhy don’t the Democrats want to answer that question? Seems like they are falling into a trap by avoiding it. I mean, how could you be patriotic and not want us to win?
Comment by Edward — October 29, 2006 @ 4:33 pm
I don’t know, lol, why do you hate America so much?
October 29th, 2006 at 9:02 pmMight as well enjoy, TerrytheTurtle, all this will be gone by morning — if we’re lucky.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:02 pmI know, I made a doozy tonight and now barfly and Zooey are pissed!
;)
:))))
Comment by trueblue
Not pissed, true. But I haven’t seen you doing any Santo wrangling…
October 29th, 2006 at 9:04 pmpatriotism does not mean unquestioning loyalty to Dear Leader. teddy roosevelt considered it unpatriotic and morally treasonous to NOT question the President
October 29th, 2006 at 9:07 pmif we’re lucky.
Comment by Zooey — October 29, 2006 @ 9:02 pm
What, like not being ableto remember the night before when you got drunk and did some crazy stuff?
October 29th, 2006 at 9:08 pmWell, goodnight guys…
Take care Santo!
October 29th, 2006 at 9:09 pmWhen Wolfie quit being a useful tool to meet the Cheney/GOP goals, he was dumped on …. no suprise there….. REMEMBER KATRINA …..Just as this administration trampled the middle class and the working poor, it has stomped on Wolf and CNN.
Welcome onboard Wolfie…. you are in very good company ….. WE ARE THE REAL AMERICA AND WE WILL BE HEARD!!!
October 29th, 2006 at 9:11 pmWhat, like not being ableto remember the night before when you got drunk and did some crazy stuff?
Comment by unbelievable
Um, what have you heard…?
October 29th, 2006 at 9:12 pmPatriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel, in Lynne Cheney’s case an old, imperious bag.
-Samuel Johnson
October 29th, 2006 at 9:13 pmWhy would any real patriot want us to win an illegal, immoral and unnecessary war? Winning would not make it right.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:15 pmHave you considered doing ‘homebound’ for her while you’re working through this? Would force them to comply. Just a thought.
Comment by unbelievable
HUH?
Please explain, as I am quite interested…
if it’s a long explaination, I’ll give you my email…
October 29th, 2006 at 9:17 pmThat’s gonna leave a mark, Wolfie! Mrs. Cheney cleaned your leftist clock, and now you are trying to backtrack! LOL I urge the administration to classify CNN as a terrorist organization and jail the members at Gitmo.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:22 pmThe important question here is does a gay man do Lynne’s hair? And if he does should he be water boarded?
October 29th, 2006 at 9:22 pmtrue,
unbelievable is gone. It sounds like a home schooling program that is still within the boundaries of an IEP.
If Miniblue is on an IEP, read your parental rights thing they give you every year (they’re supposed to anyway), there may be information on it. Or look up your state’s policies on the internet. I wouldn’t ask the school, that just gives them too much information at this point.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:23 pmWhat, like not being ableto remember the night before when you got drunk and did some crazy stuff?
Comment by unbelievable
Um, what have you heard…?
Comment by Zooey —
October 29th, 2006 at 9:23 pmGuilty Conscience?
hehehehe
The important question here is does a gay man do Lynne’s hair? And if he does should he be water boarded?
Comment by forc
If a gay man did that hair, he ought to be shot…
October 29th, 2006 at 9:24 pmOkay, I watched the interview. But for me more interesting than the content of Lizzie’s answers during the interview was how shitty she looked. She looked tired/stressed/old/constipated. You woulda thunk that Lizzie would have money from that $8million dollar income to at least go to some spa and get the works.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:27 pmGuilty Conscience?
hehehehe
Comment by trueblue
Me? Feel guilty? Never!
I would only feel guilty if I was supposed to be Santo wrangling, and failed to do so…
October 29th, 2006 at 9:27 pmskdea, the question is whether the country is stronger and truer to its ideals after such a war. strategically giving up in vietnam positioned the us better in the cold war, I think, although its very clear that the vietnam war isn’t over in the us. I suspect the iraq war will go on for a long time after the troops come home (IF they ever come home).
October 29th, 2006 at 9:27 pmMaybe she should take her husband’s advice to Patrick Leahy and go * herself.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:28 pmshe is on an IEP.
She’s also technically disabled because of the uncontrolled nature, but the school says a 504 isn’t needed.
The rights are pretty vague, and they really do NOT help me.
*sigh*
Any Educational Advocates out there?
now I’m mad…….
October 29th, 2006 at 9:29 pmI hate feeling used or somehow “less than”…
The educational system and the healthcare system need big time overhauling…..
Guilty Conscience?
hehehehe
Comment by trueblue
Me? Feel guilty? Never!
I would only feel guilty if I was supposed to be Santo wrangling, and failed to do so…
Comment by Zooey —
OK -
I laughed so hard I actually snorted, Zooey!
I may have woken up “miniblue” with that one!
October 29th, 2006 at 9:31 pmNow, Santo,
you are supposed to be going to bed for the night.
Zooey needs to go to sleep, too.
so say goodnight, and we’ll talk to you tomorrow, OK?
October 29th, 2006 at 9:35 pmtrue,
If Mini’s on an IEP, a 504 isn’t even in the picture.
You are your own best advocate! You are a smart person! Do internet research; talk to other parents of kids with disabilities; call your local legal aid clinic or state bar association for a name of an education attorney; ask if they do pro bono; call your local disabilities advocate, they may know someone.
No one in the school system is going to give up this information, unless they are truly exceptional people and are not completely exhasuted, so don’t even bother. Once you get educated in regard to your rights, they will never be able to mess with you again.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:38 pmWolf Blitzer and CNN tilt left as do ALL other major media outlets…the latest UCLA study proves the obvious:
“I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican,” said Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist and the study’s lead author. “But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are.”
Article here for those who actually have an open mind:
October 29th, 2006 at 9:39 pmhttp://tinyurl.com/b22ex
at least we can rest assured that a gay man did not choose her wardrobe.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:39 pmCNN and Wolf Blitzer are just starting to find thier balls again. I think Obermann may have given CNN the courage to stick up for themselves. I would have asked Lynne Cheney “with all the stories flying around about how your husband likes to beat up on women, how do you feel about that?”, and ” Lynne, do you think that your book “Sisters” made your daughter a Lesbian?”
October 29th, 2006 at 9:40 pmZooey are you hitting on me?…..:)
Comment by Santo
Of course I am — Joe.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:41 pmShot is a given! He should be taken out and shot. But should he be tortured first?
October 29th, 2006 at 9:41 pmNo, Santo, I’m not hitting on you.
I just want to talk to you tomorrow, OK?
We need to go to sleep, and you do, too.
So talk to us tomorrow, OK?
October 29th, 2006 at 9:42 pmShot is a given! He should be taken out and shot. But should he be tortured first?
Comment by forc
Just shot. We don’t torture!
October 29th, 2006 at 9:45 pmLynne †smokey †Cheney is a nasty old hag ! The bitch has written several trash Lesbian novels .
And as far as her whining , bitching and moaning about CNN being biased the old hag needs to take her fat ass back over to faux news where she can get drunk on the kool aide !
Comment by DailykosbannedSusan
October 29th, 2006 at 9:47 pmThat is because she is a lesbian herself…she would’t touch that dick with a ten foot pole.
Zooey, i am a nice girl and you have to do better than that to hit me.
Comment by Santo
See my response to forc at #239. I never hit, I just shoot.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:48 pmZooey, i am a nice girl and you have to do better than that to hit me.
Comment by Santo
OK, I’m outta here!
Can’t wrangle that!
Good Luck.
I have to go to sleep.
Although it’s not quite 10:00pm, I’m still at 11:00pm time. I’m wiped.
Good-night, and good-luck.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:51 pmThat is because she is a lesbian herself…she would’t touch that dick with a ten foot pole.
Comment by Mike Hunt
I’m not a lesbian, but I wouldn’t touch that “Dick” with a ten foot pole, either.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:53 pmLynn Cheney has shown her true colors years ago…how could any decent woman stay married to such an evil oaf named Dick She is pure shit.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:53 pmOhhhh…nooowww, it’s a problem when Wolf’s patriotism is questioned?!
And this question, “do you want the U.S. to win? Win what, an illegitimate war? An illegal war? An unjust war? We SHOULDN’T BE THERE and shouldn’t have been IN THE FIRST PLACE!
Do you want the U.S. to win……SPIT!
October 29th, 2006 at 9:54 pmGood-night, and good-luck.
Comment by trueblue
Goodnight, trueweenie.
October 29th, 2006 at 9:54 pmKapo’ dear that’s not up to your standards, c’mon do better, do it for me.lol.
Comment by Santo
Holy crap, someone hijacked Santo’s name…
October 29th, 2006 at 9:57 pmZooey, nobody hijacked nothing. it’s gnende, remember?
Comment by Santo
Hmmm, you don’t sound as crazy as usual.
October 29th, 2006 at 10:05 pmI thought it was Gnede.
October 29th, 2006 at 10:05 pmI’m not a lesbian, but I wouldn’t touch that “Dick†with a ten foot pole, either.
Comment by Zooey
I’m sure no one has but the oaf himself. He couldn’t pay a hooker enough to touch that thing. God I’m making myself sick thinking about it, I need to go throw up.
October 29th, 2006 at 10:06 pmThe fact of the matter is that a propaganda disclaimer should appear throughout CNN’s entire broadcast!
October 29th, 2006 at 10:07 pmI would like to apologize to the oafs of the world, I just gave them a bad name
October 29th, 2006 at 10:11 pmIt’s not right calling Lynne Cheney a bitch,
but darnit, I just can’t help it…
http://www.tothecenter.com
October 29th, 2006 at 10:13 pmZooey dear it is gnende which means nothing, and the crazy part it was to know you better. But you already know that.
Comment by Santo
Yeesh….heh.
October 29th, 2006 at 10:21 pmGoodnight, Santo. I’m still not convinced…
October 29th, 2006 at 10:26 pmWhen the [un] admirable Tiberius [Duhbuyah] upon becoming emperor [chimperor], received a message from the Senate [GrOPes] in which the conscript fathers assured him that whatever legislation he wanted would be automatically passed by them, he sent back word that this was outrageous. “Suppose the emperor [chimperor] is ill or mad or incompetent?” He returned their message. They sent it again. His response: “How eager you are to be slaves.”
— Edward Gibbon
October 29th, 2006 at 10:26 pmZooey get over it, santo gnende is not insane, just crazy enough to survive….:)
Comment by Santo
I believe you.
October 29th, 2006 at 10:32 pmmostly I notice the absence of caps =)
October 29th, 2006 at 10:32 pmMissed all the discussion today. Well most of it. Any GOHERE
October 29th, 2006 at 10:33 pmMostly I notice the almost complete lack of nuttiness…
October 29th, 2006 at 10:34 pmSome little poster was giving Cheney big loving over his huge charity donations.
October 29th, 2006 at 10:36 pmThe facts don’t look so good.
Cheney’s giant charitable deduction was taken because of special laws passed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, to help out the residents of the stricken Gulf. Cheney took full advantage, but didn’t donate one red cent to Katrina relief. Bastard.
Details at http://mainstusa.blogspot.com/2006_04_16_mainstusa_archive.html
Sorry, that should say “any way”.
October 29th, 2006 at 10:38 pmYikes,
That’s a great site. Please think of the kittens….
October 29th, 2006 at 10:41 pmWhat Nixon said about Barbara Bush holds true for that Cheney wench. “That woman knows how to hate.”
October 29th, 2006 at 10:50 pm…geez, this is terrible, ne’er did such a terrible thing happen to the blogodphere before!
October 29th, 2006 at 10:58 pmTo the Cheneys of the world, the term patriotism means being an american right winger and a nazi.
October 29th, 2006 at 11:02 pmMust be the water at the Cheney compound. Maybe it’s leaking into the coffins they sleep in… COULD be.
October 29th, 2006 at 11:09 pmtrueblue:
I wasn’t kidding! My wife wasem> calling; and I never took your remark as anything but good-humored banter. No harm, no foul.
October 29th, 2006 at 11:23 pmOops! Sorry! Premature ejaculation (again!) I’ll edit better next time.
October 29th, 2006 at 11:26 pmZooey get over it, santo gnende is not insane, just crazy enough to survive….:)
Comment by Santo — October 29, 2006 @ 10:29 pm
heh… reminds me of a favorite waylon jennings song -
“i’ve always been crazy but it keeps me from goin’ insane”
eh? …
g’nite now… say your prayers…
October 29th, 2006 at 11:32 pm.
Wolf, you (and ALL of CNN, for that matter) are getting just a small amount of the comeuppance due for your brown nosed, lackey behavior toward the Bush administration all these years. If you, John King, Candy Crowley and the REST of CNN’s so called journalists (mostly clowns, really) had been doing your jobs perhaps a large percentage of the US population would not still be possessed of the notion that we had found WMDs in Iraq. You’ve been busy kowtowing to the neocons for so long it’s surprising you had any guts left at all to confront the VP’s wife. Somehow, given your record, one doubts you would exhibit the same gumption had you been interviewing the VP himself.
October 29th, 2006 at 11:37 pmI wasn’t kidding! My wife wasem> calling; and I never took your remark as anything but good-humored banter. No harm, no foul.
Comment by barfly
She’s got Catholic guilt. Yeah, I milked it for all it was worth. I ain’t no Catholic… :)
October 29th, 2006 at 11:40 pm#279: I agree. It’s a pretty hollow victory to have the press begin to turn on the Bush administration six years too late for it to have done much good. Where was Wolf Blitzer when the Bush administration attacked the patriotism of people (such as myself) who marched peacefully in protest of the illegal and immoral war on Iraq? Where was the press corps when it really mattered, when honest investigative reporting might have actually stopped this war from happening in the first place?
October 29th, 2006 at 11:46 pmTruly shameless, Zooey.
October 29th, 2006 at 11:47 pmI can’t get over all the character assassination, bizarrely nasty comments, invective. vitriol and pure hatred. I just came here to see how someone actually found the courage to talk back to Wolf Blitzer, one of the chief nabobs of the media elite at CNN. In a country that has lost its masculine strength because citizens have become afraid to speak truth. This is due to judges who continue to exceed their authority by people too afraid to tell them to stuff it.
Tyrannical judges render impotent an electorate terrified of losing their livelihood, homes and sanity to lawsuits that a reasonable judiciary would throw out as malicious jurisprudence. Now they work hand-in-glove with unscrupulous attorneys to financially cripple any who who stands against them. The truly independent judiciary that existed before social engineering began would have thrown out what has become a fascistic tactic … political correctness imposed by Hollywood personalities, secular atheists and other people of exaggerated self importance, significant only because of relentless glorification by Hollywood’s liberal ruling class, the new censors. They promote immorality by wrapping themselves in the Constitution, demanding license where our forebears knew true Freedom exists only within limitations.
Do the vast majority of posters here realize how mean, small and brutish you appear? Your pretentious assumption that you’re the chosen people who alone can judge the leaders of our government defies rational thinking.
I hope some of you get over the Bush/Cheney hate and think more about the United States rather than what the world thinks about us.
October 29th, 2006 at 11:51 pmTruly shameless, Zooey.
Comment by barfly
You’ve been around here for a while. :)
October 29th, 2006 at 11:51 pm“Of course the people don’t want war. But after all, it’s the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it’s always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it’s a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.”
- Herman Goering
October 29th, 2006 at 11:54 pmWolf
Continue to ask the hard questions and I ADMIRE YOUR COURAGE NOT TO GIVE IN TO THE REPUBLICAN SPIN MACHINE.
Wes Strzegowski
October 29th, 2006 at 11:56 pm[...] Wolf Blitzer CNN Late Edition October 29, 2006 [...]
October 30th, 2006 at 12:06 amLike bobolink, Google News brought me here when I just wanted to read a story about the wife of the Vice President having the courage to talk back to a Talking Head.
I must admit I’m bewildered by the hate for Bush/Cheney among you guys. Get over it. You’re not going to win the country over to your gutlessness.
We got Saddam out. He tortured thousands of people. Maybe there were not WMD’s but all the information agencies said there were. Now, instead of securing a strong government, you guys want us out of Iran, out of Afghanistan … to become a joke of a nation in the face of Islamofacism.
I know enough about history to know these Moslem thugs want to kill us if we don’t spit on Christ, trample the Torah or give up the freedom not to believe in anything other than today. Your divisive hatred, magnified so loudly by liberal newspapers, television and radio outlets give aid and comfort to the enemy.
Wake up, my fellow citizens, our future – the future of my children and yours – our culture of liberty that you pay so much lip service to, is in danger of being lost. Be on the right side. Don’t give the enemy a foothold.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:07 am#283: In a country that has lost its masculine strength because citizens have become afraid to speak truth.
And I suppose you think George W. Bush is an example of a real “masculine” man?
What’s your definition of masculinity? Parading around in flight suits and cowboy hats? Clearing brush on the ranch in front of the TV cameras? Incessant finger-pointing and refusing to take responsibility for poor judgment?
What’s your definition of truth? Repeatedly lying to the American public about weapons of mass destruction and phony connections between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Accusing political opponents of being unpatriotic?
Our founding fathers, who worried about the power of the executive branch, would be appalled by the Bush administration’s repeated attempts to grab power. They wanted a legislative branch that took its oversight responsibilities seriously, and they wanted a judiciary that was, yes, independent–which sometimes means declaring laws unconstitutional.
I think you should speak for yourself when you describe Americans as “terrified of losing their livelihood, homes and sanity to lawsuits.” I’ll speak for myself and say that I am not afraid of being sued–or afraid, period. It is the Republican Party that is the party of fear, hatred, and bankrupt ideas. That is why the political tide is turning.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:07 amIf the Dems don’t take over the house, we need to investigate Karl Rove(r) and the rest of the Republican Scumbags!
October 30th, 2006 at 12:11 am#288: I just wanted to read a story about the wife of the Vice President having the courage to talk back to a Talking Head.
Accusing Wolf Blitzer of being unpatriotic does not take courage. Accusing political rivals of being unpatriotic has been the modus operandi of the Bush administration and the Republican Party for years. It has not made the country safer, and it has not reduced the terrorist threat. Terrorists succeed when they create, you know, terror. Such as inducing Americans to saying things like, “our culture of liberty. . . is in danger of being lost.” That sounds like terror to me. You’re giving aid and comfort to our enemy.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:14 amIn stock-market terms, Wolfie has just bought an option on the (remote?) possibility that Bungle/Rove and Diebold won’t steal the entire midterm election, and he may have to deal with a Democratic congress next year. Options can represent cheap insurance, and this one (actual questions of a Repugnant) may balance the losses he would take when remembered for six years of selling Repugnant lies by silence or even overt agreement.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:16 amWake up Jim. Accusing me of what I accuse liberal wimps shows you have no real grounds for an argument. You’re like a little kid. Grow up. Quite being a sissy. I don’t particular care for Bush, to be honest. I never have. But I’d vote for Anne Coulter, who I consider a nothing more than a blonde opportunist before I vote for a whining liberal Democrat who hasn’t enough balls to admit his mistakes like a man.
I really want to see men and women, not the caricatures from Central Casting that have run the courts and the Democrat party for the past 30 years. See, I was, until 1992, a liberal Democrat who voted the Democrat ticket down the line. I even voted for that pussy, McGovern, because I equated the Republicans with the Gestapo. I voted against Reagan twice. But when the openly baby killing abettor, Bill Clinton ran, I stopped voting Democratic and voted for Perot twice. I still couldn’t vote for Republicans until 2000.
When Al Gore ran, the former antiabortionist who sold out to be president, I voted for Bush. I’d do it again. I wasn’t going to have four more years of a babykiller using Federal funds to help duped women continue the genocide they are condemning us to.
Now, this is a valid and thoughtful reason never to vote for members of the party who make “a woman’s right to choose” part of every race for seats on local assemblies, county commissioners, and lieutenant governor races – people who have no power over abortion. When the Democrat party stops fronting for Margaret Sanger’s eugenics organization, Planned Parenthood, and all the other special interest groups demanding handouts, subsidies for ethnic groups to keep them on the dole and victims, maybe then I’ll return to the party that left me to whore for them.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:32 amFor more on the soft core pornography of Lynne Cheney, Scooter Libby and Bill O’Reilly, see:
“Hard Liners, Soft Porn.”
October 30th, 2006 at 12:32 amShe was over the top like most of the rethuglicans but he deserves it . He’s no better than the rubberstamp Congress in office. Most of CNN and MSNBC have been giving this president and administration a blank check since he’s been in office. Funny part about the whole thing is they will (the media) still try to castrate the Dems if we win next month. If you hadn’t noticed the media has been throwing out republican talking points and basically slamming speaker Pelosi.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:41 am#293: Why am I supposed to care about Lynne Cheney, Scooter Libby, and Bill O’Reilly’s soft porn?
October 30th, 2006 at 12:48 am[...] Update – Blitzer responds. Filed under War on Terror, War in Iraq, 2006 Elections by Andy Permalink • Print • Email • Comment [...]
October 30th, 2006 at 12:51 amIf you’re looking for some serious coverage of Sisters, go to whitehouse.org. They’ve had up portions of the novel for a couple years, along with some wonderful commentary! Not surprisingly, the real White House sent the site a threatening letter to remove Lynne Cheney content.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:17 amMs Cheney shares one trait with her snarling father, her snarling demeanor.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:24 amHaha, you people are morons.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:46 am#299: Haha, you people are morons.
Which ones? The ones suggesting our “culture of liberty” will be “lost” if we don’t support Republicans? I basically agree, although the name-calling doesn’t really work for me.
October 30th, 2006 at 2:10 amI thought we already won the war. … “Mission Accomplished!”
October 30th, 2006 at 3:04 amMrs.Cheney gave a good account for herself and for decent, patriotic Americans, Wolf stumbled, bumbled, and showed himself to be a shill for the DNC.
October 30th, 2006 at 3:35 amWTF would any of 5-deferment Dickhead’s family know about patriotism
FYI – Thomas Jefferson never served in the military. I’ve heard rumors he was considered by some as a patriot though…vague mumblings about some dreary screed called a declaration of independence. Maybe I’m mistaken though and he just wrote some Virginia travel guides…
October 30th, 2006 at 4:21 amas a US citizen living abroad it really hurts to see our credibility more and more sinking in mud on all fronts (politics, environment, the border wall, etc. etc.) thanks to a GOP administration which will go down in history as dumb, and war and money and power oriented as this is! Well I just can’t find the words to express how hurt I feel! I hope that on Nov.7 we all will do our best to take as much power from them as we can. Come on America, wake up!
October 30th, 2006 at 4:22 amCarla
Let’s see I’ve found these comments posted as evidence against Lynn Cheney …
moron, scumbag, nurse wratchet, slimeball, war profiteer, Scum-Bag, Axis of Total F#ucking Dumb-Asses,†Mrs “Dick”, a vicious little scumbag and pathological liar. She is pure shit.
So this is the way you debate politics. The educated elite. The liberal left.
The people who know better than anyone else. The Margaret Sanger generation of genocidal eugenicists who kill human beings in your wombs because they get in the way. You flay your political opponents the way you murder your babies – before you can think. Convenience is your gospel, abortion your sacrament.
You make me want to puke.
You’re little more a bunch of spoiled, bratty, inbred babies who need to stop your thumbsucking and name calling and grow up. And from what I’ve read, Zooey is the worst. She incites ande excites, cheerleads and betwets. A true jerk. Denigrating reasonable people, asslicking her buddies. She is your standout representative.
Oh my god, barfly, that’s so f*cking funny.
Comment by Zooey — October 29, 2006 @ 7:39 pm
No substance. No ideas. Just ridicule and bad manners. You are all funny because , along with your ringleader, you’re all caricatures. If the US goes under to Islamofascism, it will be due to you, traitors all.
October 30th, 2006 at 4:28 amAll being said and done, America deserves the Government it voted for…twice. Voting for President Bush and his right-wing cronies again after what was considered a military, diplomatic, and political failure by many credible sources, right and left wing mind you, is what American’s get for being so alarmingly partisan that they blindly follow whatever propaganda is spewed by their respective party. Intellectual curiosity and opinion has been replaced by a lazy repetition and adherence of our party leaders’ dogma.These are sad times to be considered an American, shameful almost, as we have lost our individual voices for the sake of following our political parties’ drum beat. America has shown it’s true colors (black and green, oil and money) to the world at large.
October 30th, 2006 at 4:30 amLiberals care about the poor the way sharks care about tuna.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:03 amWhat is so sad, these comments represent the intelligence of our voting public. After reading about 10 comments I had to stop. I wonder how these people would feel knowing that their children and/or parents knew they were making such comments available to all Americans.
Clearly self-respect is needed with many of these people, but one must earn it. Our society must stop giving children the “good job” or “good try” dribble when they perform poorly and give our praise only when they actually perform well to earn it.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:20 am[...] On Friday, Lynne Cheney repeatedly attacked CNN for having a liberal bias during a combative appearance on the Situation Room.read more | digg story Links [...]
October 30th, 2006 at 6:45 amI love this. Just at the moment the GOP needs favorable coverage, she blasts their servant’s patriotism. And he seems pretty mad about it too. They’re afraid and eating their own.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:44 am[...] read more | digg story [link] [...]
October 30th, 2006 at 8:10 amOops! Sorry! Premature ejaculation (again!) I’ll edit better next time.
Comment by barfly — October 29, 2006 @ 11:26 pm
Hey you have to empty your sack sometimes. ….:)
October 30th, 2006 at 8:24 amThe phony Christian hypocrites, a la Lynne Cheney are getting a bit testy. Could it be they have seen the latest polls and are angry that Americans will no longer be fooled by their lies?
Good job Wolf. I think you are a patriot. I look forward to the oversight that will be forthcoming in a Democratic House.
I want to know where the secret gulags are. I want to know how many are being held without benefit of trial. I want to know where all the money in Iraq went. I want to know why the GAO audit report finding massive overcharges by Halliburton was discarded by the Republicans. I want to know who is being spied upon without a warrant. I want to know why this administration did not have an occupation plan prior to invading Iraq. I want to know why our troops do not have the best equipment that our tax dollars can buy.
Go ID-1, Go Larry Grant, Go Idaho.
October 30th, 2006 at 8:32 amThis was not about Cheney coming unhinged. This was completely scripted right out of the Republican playbook. Any legitimate grievance of the Democrats has to be countered by a made-up one of the Republicans. Who got more enraged about voter fraud during the last elections? It was the Republicans over supposed Democratic fraud for which they had no evidence! That way they were able to rationalize their horrible behavior by arguing that everyone does it. (Here in Washington there are still Republicans who spew against the Dem governor over a close recount which they are convinced, without an iota of evidence, was stolen). So, now, when one of their news flunkies ambushes the former Prez, they have to be able to point where the liberal media ambushed poor Lynne Cheney. Same thing with the civility debate. Remember Noonan’s crying about the uncivil Dems? I could go on, but it’s so obvious what Cheney was doing. Deliberate and scripted.
October 30th, 2006 at 9:26 amZooey, Possibly…??? That’s an understatement my dear.
October 30th, 2006 at 9:29 amAmen to what Siri wrote! The wife of a torturer, war-mongerer, and war-profiteer wrote a book for kids. That’s the last book I’d want near my kids.
October 30th, 2006 at 9:34 amAmen to what Siri wrote. A book written by the wife of a war-mongerer, torturer, and war-profiteer is the last book I’d want near my kids.
October 30th, 2006 at 9:35 amI still think Blitzer got the smackdown he and CNN deserve for showing that sniper snuff video clip. Blitzer says in one breath that it wasn’t terrorist propaganda – and in the next breath he says it was. If it was enemy propaganda, designed to be such – CNN should not have shown it. Period. And he notably ducked the question – “Where did you get that video ?” Squirming.
Blitzer is clearly sore at the smackdown he deservedly got. That’s why he was bleating about the incident the next day.
The Dems main hope on 7 November was that GOP supporters would stay at home. Incidents like Blitzer’s rudeness do a great job in stirring up the GOP voters. Probably worth several hundred thousand votes – this interview is all over the blogs. Including the fact that Blitzer was spouting from the DNC’s speaking notes.
Media bias – what bias ? CNN is so left, so morally equivocating and so anti-US in so much of its coverage that it now ranks with Al Jazeera. Indeed that is exactly the role it is seeking in the Middle East. They have said as much – it is their commercial ambition.
CNN is not on anyone’s side except CNN’s.
October 30th, 2006 at 9:48 amI learned in Critical Thinking about how Ad Hominem attacks hurt an argument, but as one really pissed off U.S. Citizen, every time I see Lynne Cheney or Heather Wilson, I start saying a mantra of What a C, What a C?
These are sure interesting times? What the hell happened to the USinA?
October 30th, 2006 at 9:48 amIt is important that all of us understand what is at stake:
Impeachment isn’t: It will take all the statesmanship we’ve got to extricate us from Iraq, eliminate our dependency on mid east oil, and undo the damage done to our country, our economy and reputation since the Bush administration began.
Democracy is: A large number of our citizens believe that dissent is disloyal, and that concern about what we do and how we do it is somehow against our nation.
That signals the death of our democracy – closing down all right of questioning, our right to redirection, our governence by those governed.
That is a dangerous, slippery slope that has to be reversed, and those that believe it must be nullified and removed from any public trust.
It has become the republican mantra.
Nothing can be more telling.
October 30th, 2006 at 9:49 amI can’t get over all the character assassination, bizarrely nasty comments, invective. vitriol and pure hatred. I just came here to see how someone actually found the courage to talk back to Dick Cheney, one of the chief nabobs of the elite at USA. YES In a country that has lost its masculine strength because citizens have become afraid to speak truth. This is due to TYRANTS who continue to exceed their authority by people too afraid to tell them to stuff it. Tyrannical DICTATORS render impotent an electorate terrified of losing their livelihood, homes and sanity to laws blahblahblah. The Bush regime better have some unscrupulous attorneys because honest to Christ they will need them. Fluff up the feather pillows, smell the black tar, because god damn it Democracy is coming to the USA! USA! USA!
October 30th, 2006 at 9:55 amLynne Cheney was surprised because it is Blitzer’s habit to repeatedly dodge asking the difficult questions, and to consistently give this administration a pass. Ms. Cheney evidently was pissed about the other reporters and came in with a chip on her shoulder.
Where all all the right wingers who complained about Clinton’s treatment of Baby Wallace, saying he “came loaded for bear” and all that crap?? Answer: this never was about being fair — to a Republican, winning is everything, morals be damned.
October 30th, 2006 at 9:59 am#310: Rush Limbaugh has you trained very well, right down to your reference to the “Democrat” Party.
October 30th, 2006 at 10:00 amWELCOME to OUR world, Wolfie! Whaddaya think we’ve been complaining about THIS WHOLE TIME, hmmmmmmm?? Welcome to the wonderful world of “Enemy Combatant”, how’s it feel?
October 30th, 2006 at 10:03 amServes you right. You have sucked up to them. Those or the ones that will bite your head, what did you think she would do when she is cornered.
October 30th, 2006 at 10:10 amI hereby nominate Lynne Cheney as community ambassador for the United Gulags of America in Baghdad.
Good luck on your mission, Lynn.
Send us updates before Iran Contra: Part 2 because it’s quickly approaching.
If things are so great in Iraq, why is Baghdad controlled by voluntary
October 30th, 2006 at 10:24 ammilitias?
This most recent performance by Lynne Cheney is apparently her favorite role. She played this one at about the same time prior to the 2004 election. It’s the shrill, overacted “You’ve wounded me!” bit.
In 2004, she went over the top to pretend she was taking offense at the fact that someone mentioned publicly her daughter’s sexual preference. She fancies herself at being some kind of a hit lady who can (in her own mind) suddenly change the tide of an upcoming election with a big display of feigned outrage. In 2004, she announced to the world “John Kerry is a bad man,” because he happened to mention something that everyone in the country already knew. She was so taken up with huffing and puffing and snorting that nobody was able to get her to answer a few simple questions like: Why should you be upset that people know your daughter is a lesbian? Are you ashamed of her? Do you think people don’t know? Do you think that all those good Republicans you love so well would not vote for someone who’s related to a lesbian? Why didn’t you get upset when John Edwards mentioned it the exact same way during the vice presidential debates? Is he a “bad man” too?
So, this time she launches an attack on Wolf. If you watch the complete video, you’ll see that she’s the one who changes the topic to things that she claims to be outraged about. She didn’t even answer Wolf’s first question about her husband and waterboarding. He was trying to find out if she really thought that a “dunk in the water” simply meant a dunk in the water, or if it meant what everyone else in the world, apart from those trying to defend the White House, would have understood it to be.
How much of an imbecile do you have to be to think that this was anything but a stunt? Hey Lynne, I question the patriotism of war profiteers, which you and your husband most certainly are. Yes, Lynne, you and the Dick are war profiteers who benefit from KBR supplying the troops with toxic water straight out of the Tigris unfiltered to wash, brush their teeth, make coffee, and bathe in. You enriched yourselves with billions of taxpayers’ dollars gained through outright fraud. You should be tried for treason, you screaming bitch from Hell.
October 30th, 2006 at 10:26 amNext time Wolf should ask Lynn exactly what VP Cheney’s relationship is with his female shooting companion. You know, the lady who was rushed out of the country before the WH announced Mr. Cheney had had an accident.
October 30th, 2006 at 10:41 amIve never understood the Blitzer defamation league that exists on the blogs. It seems to me that Wolf has always done a fairly good job of asking the right questions of the administration. One must remember that at the time the Iraq war started, most public sentiment was with “doing something” (David Letterman’s choice of words). And Blitzer was imbedded with the troops in Iraq. So there naturally was a hope in his heart that we were doing the right thing. Almost all America shared that hope in the beginning. (I was in the minority who thought it was a huge mistake to not follow the path that the U.N. sanctions were working, and nearly unilaterally invade Iraq) (I swore to myself and to passersby about Bush’s egotistical cowboy nonchalance to world opinion, as he said, “Bring it On”.
October 30th, 2006 at 10:54 amBut, Exactly how would you report that early Iraq war if you, personally were imbedded with the troops like Wolf Blitzer? There’s a line that objective reporters must walk and it always seemed to me that Wolf walked it very well. Imbedded reporters live with the troops; of course they lean to the side of error towards supporting those troops.
Another point about the “Blitzer image” on tv is that he is often called upon to play “Good Cop- Bad Cop” with Jack Cafferty. And the two of them seem to me to use that to very good effect, with some of the most blistering criticism of the Bush administration thats being aired.
And finally, I think perhaps, most peoples views of how the media is supposed to present stories on the news is hopelessly damaged by the O’Reilly type of propagandist journalism. I don’t want CNN to just be 180 degrees different than Fox, I want it to be accurate and truthful.
And as a veteran newswatcher, I think that it has been. Not perfect, but very very good. Kudos to Wolf!!
Did y’all really miss the parallel? Of course Mme. Cheney knew she’s be asked about politics. Of course she knew CNN correctly labeled (and edited) the propoganda viddies they show. And she knows pretending a journalist is a partisan (”Do you want us to win?”) is absurd on its face.
Unless that “journalist” is a partisan. Then he’s fair game, and everyone knows it. Take for instance the disappointment Chris Wallace, who had his ass handed to him by President Clinton. Wallace asked crazy, fact-challenged questions that might have broadsided a lesser intellect, but Bill brought him down like a clipped pigeon (without shooting anyone in the face first). Bill tore all of FAUX NEWS a new orifice in that brilliant moment, and every honest viewer, left or right, knew it.
It is a commonplace – left or right – that our current senior office-holders are no more honest than Ailes & Co. They certainly must have felt FAUX’s pain, if only as a premonition of their own, now only a week away. And so the Mrs. stepped up to the dirty work and tried to pull the same stunt on Wolfie, no doubt to water down the Clinton moment. Trouble is, Bill was right and she was ridiculous.
Her objection was to straight presentation of the facts (including enemy propoganda, as such). She demanded partisanship from Mr. Blitzer, and looked ridiculous doing so. Bill, on the other hand, pointed out egregious partisanship from Wallace, and looked like an American doing so. Just another example of how RoveCo, clever as they may be in some ways, still do not understand – or care – what it really means to be an American.
Vote early and often, people.
October 30th, 2006 at 11:15 amAnd she was also outraged when John Kerry “outed” her daughter. She has no morals, ethics, or credibility.
Of course, I can’t feel sorry for any member of the media after the way they rolled over for the administration from 2000-2004. Wolf Blitzer thought he was patriotic when he sat there silently watching us go into Iraq, so why wouldn’t he think he is unpatriotic now?
It’s like a prison fight – they both deserve what they get.
October 30th, 2006 at 11:28 amSean is a satirist, right? I mean, no one actually believes the shaggy dog story that Hollywood is the muscle of the Democratic Party. That’s just a fringe-right chant to get the blood up at rallies and such, just like the fringe-left charge that RoveCo is transferring present and future American wealth from the many in the poor and middle to the few rich.
Oh, wait. That one’s true. Well, the one about how RoveCo was looking for an excuse to invade Iraq for its own unstated purposes and used 9oneone as that pretext, making up excuses as they went along.
Oh. True again. Well, OK, how about how tightie-righties squeal about “perversion,” even though all the dangerous perverts we’re hearing about are tightie-righties?
Jeez, I’m sure I can think of one that isn’t true. Oh yeah! Those crazy lefties are always saying that Sean the blog contributor does not really know the mind of God. You know, like “Sean is a doodyhead, thinks he knows what God said.”
Except, of course, that our Sean is just kidding. He’s got a computer, after all – or a library card – so he can’t mean the stupid things he types. Yah, satire. Must be.
October 30th, 2006 at 11:30 amWho cares what the first ladies have to say during elections time, when the first husbands don’t get it right all year around?
Comment by Sandy — October 29, 2006 @ 5:58 pm
Evidently a lots people do care, judging by the comments i read……:) People,I hope you get paid to write such things, well too.
October 30th, 2006 at 11:40 amHere’s a copy of Lynn Cheney’s GRAPHIC lesbian novel “Sisters”, if you want to read it. Pass this around to every conservative you know, horrify them!
http://www.theyoungturks.com/pages/Sisters.pdf
October 30th, 2006 at 11:49 amNow, let’s see if I have this right? Webb’s novels are so sexual that he is not fit to serve according to Cheney.
How is it then that “Scooter†Libby is fit to serve? Is it because the sex in his novel is between a women and a bear? Guess a little beastiality is ok with the VP and his wife.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:02 pmThe Republicans will maintain control of this country. Spin all you want – this country is a Red state – only 8 days until this post bears fruit.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:11 pmPoor poor Wolf. He’s been giving the Cheney’s a criticism free sound board to call every democrat in this country a traitor who loves terrorists more than america.
and now the dogs have turned on him.
oh how I weep for the stenographers.
I hope he gets a warm seat next to goebbels.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:14 pmGeebus. Say anything that isn’t pro-war and every gets their panties in a bunch about patriotism…
October 30th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
What a scum … my fondest wish for the Cheneys, Dubya, Rumsfeld, Hatfield, Hayden, Condoleezza, et. al is that they live long lives and die in prison.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:23 pmOops .. spoke too soon .. “scum” appears in #343 .. I guess the curse of groupthink continues among “the best and brightest”
October 30th, 2006 at 12:27 pm[...] Here’s where it really gets fun. Wolf Blitzer made a statement on his Sunday show, Late Edition where he defended his interview with Lynne Cheney and further established a journalistic integrity that I haven’t seen since Kronkite. Fox News, to my shock *cough*, spent their Sunday coming to Lynne Cheney’s defense. [...]
October 30th, 2006 at 12:30 pmBrian Cozadd, you could be correct about the election. More importantly, I wonder if I’m right about you. You see, red or blue, most Americans elect representatives to govern the country. You, however, claim (and want) control of the country by the current crop of faux-republicans.
Real conservatives despise government control, which is fundamentally different from governing, and even opposed to it. These sophomoric, so-called neo-cons apparently never understood the difference. And that is why so many decent, honest, truly conservative Republicans will either stay home or vote for Democrats this year. They know that control is an incompetent’s idea of governing, and that we have proof enough of the incompetence, let alone the hostility to traditional American values, of this administration. Real conservatives – and real Republicans – are going to stand up like the real Americans they are, and cut RoveCo off at the knees.
When they do, please pay attention to what ensues. We’ve gone six years without true governing. You may be startled by its return.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:32 pmDon’t Republicans watch Sports?
When you gripe about the management or coaching of, say, the Tigers, do people think it’s sensable to ask, “Hey, do you want the Cardinals to win?” or say stupid crap like “That kind of talk just encourages the Cardinals!”
Ghhaaaaaa!!!! It is making me frigging insane. :-)
October 30th, 2006 at 12:34 pmAll you right wingers out there will think looney left once we start torturing you, taking the $$$ you’ve stolen and cutting your F-ing heads off to take this country back. All that’s protecting you now is a very thin middle class buffer that you right wingers are hell bent on destroying. Left on your own, you’ll be your own demise, it’s only a matter of time.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:36 pmSmirking Cynic is shocked that Lynn Cheney had the bad manners to talk back to Wolf Blitzer, Talking Head. Doesn’t she know that only liberal Talking Heads are allowed to assassinate characters on television? How dare Lynn pick on Wolfie. Only Wolf, Dan, Katie, Dave, Jon and other assorted liberal oafs and socalled political commentators can do this.
Of course these people would have died long ago if they had not found out how to appeal to the baser instincts of the American public. Just like watching pepple put to death in the arena, there will always be an audience wishing to relieved themselves and satisfy their lusts in public.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:41 pmI was wrong. I can say that because I’m not a homicidal homophobic misogynist protofascist bloviator and list maker. They melt if they own up, just like the Wicked Witch. Real Americans only sparkle when we take our licks.
I was wrong about Sean. He’s not a satirist, but a bottom feeder. I don’t know how I missed it, but I did, and I admit it. Sean looks for the least articulate in a thread, the most angry and intemperate – that is, the least persuasive – and then he happily pretends that these few posters not only represent, but define his opponents. Then he jerks off in our collective face, popping angry jizz every which way, but, yes, modestly. That is, with eyes and ears closed to everything but wonderful, wonderful Sean.
Sean ignores those of us who take the time to address substance with substance, because our very existence proves his lie for the pud pulling it is. He ratchets up his own (no doubt fragile) self-concept by finding a few people whom is easy for him to dismiss as beneath his wide-ranging contempt. If he were to aknowledge his peers, let alone his betters, he would have to tuck his little ego back into his footie jammies.
So he fulminates instead about overheated language on a blog as if it were particular to the left, rather than endemic to blogs everywhere, as the grownups here know so well it is.
Someone who cares about Sean should take him aside and explain how some basic matters really work, including political debate, not to mention ordinary courtesy to those one addresses. Otherwise, Jesus will have to put his boot up Sean’s ass, nec pas?
October 30th, 2006 at 12:50 pmWith all the good topics on Think Progress, this boards got the most comments of all, what does that tell you? Gossip maybe?
October 30th, 2006 at 12:50 pmThe VP’s dick sales more than sex? I don’t think so. Perhaps the presence of “intruders” increase the number of comments?
That could be it.
Isn’t it time for some outraged liberal to call Lynn Cheney a scumbag again? 8 or 9 posts have gone by already since #343. Perhaps another attack on her character? After all, she dared get tough with Saint Wolfie of CNN, the Church of Nonthinking NonChristians and deserves, as one poster stated “all she gets.” Hey, why stop with mere character assassination?
Groupthink and Grouptalk are falling behind! Come on liberals! Show you’re made of sterner stuff! Someone else call Lynn a scumbag!!! (
For those of you slow on the uptake, THIS is satire – poking fun at the pretentiousness of Liberal attack dogs).
October 30th, 2006 at 12:55 pmA little off topic, but it was two years ago this week that at a campaign stop, Lynn pointed out her grand-daughter, dressed up for Halloween as a skeleton, and remarked “she’s dressed up as Kerry’s health care plan.” We’ve been waiting for six years for ANY kind of health care plan from your husband’s administration, Lynn.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:57 pmI was wrong about Sean. He’s not a satirist, but a bottom feeder.
Thanks, Shield! I knew you’d wake up sooner or later. Once again you prove my point. Forget the issues, attack the messenger.
Time for your midmorning feeding, isn’t it? When you grow up, please be sure to comment on issues instead of personalities.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:58 pmSean or any of you other blind repugs…list the good things that the repugs have accomplished…go ahead, start the list…we’re waiting…ANYTHING…ANYTHING at ALL???
October 30th, 2006 at 1:01 pmSean, my comment is addressing the issues, please list the GOPs accomplishments for the past 6 years…begin now…
October 30th, 2006 at 1:03 pmLook .. I’ll repeat the first one to inspire you …
Lynne Cheney is a typical Republican scumbag.
Comment by Republicans Are The Fear And Smear Party — October 29, 2006 @ 1:09 pm
Surely there is yet another liberal out there who can’t think of anything else by the word “scumbag” as we’ve seen so often already.
Groupthink – Grouptalk – Groupattack!!!
It is really hilarious watching you guys act in exactly the same way you accuse Christians of .. except, of course, we don’t call you “hypocritical Christians” – since we know you haven’t the foggiest notion of Christianity.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:03 pmYou guys keep proving my point that you don’t attack issues, just attack characters
Sean or any of you other blind repugs…
Keep supporting my thesis! This is truly hilarious! Even when I show up yoyur tactics, you continue using them!
Groupthink, Grouptalk, Groupattack!!! The Liberal method of debate!
October 30th, 2006 at 1:06 pmSean, cmon smart guy, ACCOMPLISHMENTS of your heroes the GOP. Surely the accomplishments must be dazzling and right off the top of your loyal head?
Can you even name 1?
October 30th, 2006 at 1:06 pmOh, and Sean, do you seriously think the Cheney’s and Bush’s are religious? Cmon, they pander for your votes only, they thing your a bunch of lunatics. All they worship is the almighty $$$$$…get that through your thick head and your vision may start to clear a bit.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:09 pmSean…poor mis-guided soul, you still have yet to list a single accomplishment…
October 30th, 2006 at 1:11 pmSean: please be sure to comment on issues instead of personalities.
I do, Sean, every single post, as everyone here can see except, apparently, yourself. Understandable, since you have offerend nothing but crude hyperbole and insults of mass distraction. When it comes from you, I suppose it’s a treatise on realpolitik.
Oh, and, you better be sure of which is what before you accuse others of being slow. Again, most of us know that sarcasm and satire are altogether different things. You don’t know that. Take that clue and run with it. You know less than you might.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:12 pmIm sorry but these comments sound, for the most part phony. The continuous din of liberal democrat hate mongering sounds like another poorly exicuted google bomb.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:25 pmWhy dont you argue the issue i.e. Was it smart to show images of US troops being sniped during a time of war. I for one feel it was one of the most stupid things one could do. How on earth can you stand there and call yourself patriotic, or say “sure I want us to win in Iraq” when you show stuff like that. It is idiotic.
Personally Ill never watch CNN again.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Sure, TakeAmericaBack –
Republican accomplishments … Abraham Lincoln, The end of slavery, the understanding that entering the Union is perpetual (putting to rest the Jeffersonian concept that states could leave if they wished), the end of legislatures electing Senators and making senatorial elections subject to the popular vote, the Pure Food and Drug Act and Theodore Roosevelt (though, it must be admitted he was not the typical Republican) … not to mention the wonderful Herbert Hoover, whom FDR made into a joke, and whom Harry Truman deeply respected. And, though I am loathe to admit it, Ronald Reagan. He was a crappy governor here in California, but as president he did bring a modicum of unity to the country, and he did have advisors make him work with Pope John Paul II to end Communism – on the minus side he allowed the national debt to be raised higher than all the presidents before him.
Now let me tell you what we owe Democrats .. pardon if I sound polemic:
Legalized abortion, balkanization of minorities, hatred of white males, a continous restriction of personal liberties since 1970, continually raised taxes since 1932, runaway inflation (under Carter you remember), serious consideration of gay marriage (in any other age a laughable concept), forcing black children to get up at 4 in the morning to be bussed to white schools, support of wide open borders to invaders admittedly sent by Mexico to bolster that country’s economy … Clinton doubling the level of the national debt (and to be honest, he was followed by “tax and spend” Bush who did just about the same).
You’ll forgive me for not posting in strict chronological order … and I don’t want to embarrass you further, so I’ll stop here.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:28 pmOh, and Sean, do you seriously think the Cheney’s and Bush’s are religious?
When did I say or imply they are religious? I just commented on your lack of knowing actual Christianity. Once again, you missed the bullseye.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:30 pmLOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL I read the below and I can’t stop laughing.
All you right wingers out there will think looney left once we start torturing you, taking the $$$ you’ve stolen and cutting your F-ing heads off to take this country back. All that’s protecting you now is a very thin middle class buffer that you right wingers are hell bent on destroying. Left on your own, you’ll be your own demise, it’s only a matter of time.
Comment by TakeAmericaBack — October 30, 2006 @ 12:36 pm
This will never happen, because we have the 2nd amendment. Go ahead, and bring your knife to the gunfight. Neither the left, nor the right is gonna get my gun outta my hands, as long as we have a U.S. Constitution. You are not gonna torture anyone except yourself, so take your whiney left wing self, place your head between your but, and jump up your ass. The right isn’t going to destroy me, and neither is the left. You want to take something back, take yourself back to your doctor and get some meds.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:31 pmThanks Sean.
Now, the accomplishments of this administration? That was the question, after all. This election is a referendum on this administration, after all. Tell us why we should vote to support this administration, interms of their accomplishments, please.
I would suggest you start with the recent suspension af habeas corpus, given that that is repeal of the most fundamental protection of personal liberty. Please describe it as an accomplishment, and a conservative accomplishment, at that. We’re all waiting for your instruction.
Remember, this administration is the subject. OK?
October 30th, 2006 at 1:33 pmOh TakeAmericaBack .. I just saw your orignal challenge that you wanted Republican accomplishments for the past SIX years.
I have to admit that legislatively its been pretty much a wash .. although the Republicans were able to push past unreasonable Democrat opposition two reasonable men as Supreme Court Justices. With luck the ACLU member will soon retire and perhaps sanity will return to the high court.
You must also aware of the continued resistance of the Democrats in Congress to work on truly significant legislation. I think you’re unaware of the stalemate that the Democrats have worked in the Senate to keep House legislation from becoming law .. not to mention that idiot Bush wanting open borders to satisfy Big Business. only being absolutely FORCED by events to sign bills allowing and funding a fence to keep the invaders out.
But I bet you consider none of these things “accomplishments”
October 30th, 2006 at 1:39 pm[...] Wolf Blitzer CNN Late Edition October 29, 2006 [...]
October 30th, 2006 at 1:41 pmshieldvulf+at+playful
Show me where and when this has taken place, and affects a citizen of these United States.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:42 pmSean is either blind or just part of the game
Deskjockey refrains from explaining the context of his comment.
Typical of the character assassin.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:44 pmTakeBackAmerica ….
I’ve been awaiting your comment on my reply to your challenge to find accomplishments in the past 6 years.
Anything?
October 30th, 2006 at 1:47 pm#369 Your a typical apathetic American, waiting around in his house with his gun thinking that makes you safe. Don’t you get that the US Gov can bardge into your house TODAY, take your gun, call you an enemy combatant and shuffle you off to who knows where such that you’ll never be seen or heard from again? That’s the point dude, it doesn’t matter what party affiliation you are or what your beliefs truely are, legislation has been signed that strips you of all the rights you ever had.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:51 pmSean,
Abraham Lincoln? LOL…ok…how about Bushies and the overwhelming repug majority currently in complete control of both houses with a free ticket to write and adopt ANYTHING they can think of…that’s what I meant, not a history lesson.
BTW, I voted for Bush and have been a repug myself for a LONG time, I just happen to know right from wrong and am capable of change when necessary.
I do actually agree that we narrowly escaped having some lunitic friends of Bush appointed to the Supreme Court and instead may actually have some qualified folks appointed…against Bush’s will of course.
6 Years into the overwhelming GOP control and everything is still Clinton’s or the Dem’s fault…get a grip dude.
October 30th, 2006 at 1:56 pmget a grip dude.
That’s it? You challenged me to come up with one accomplishment in 6 years and I gave you two.
Why did you ignore my answer to your challenge? I also castigated Reagan AND Bush for their failings.
Why no comment on what you demanded from me and the extra I gave you?
October 30th, 2006 at 2:07 pmI do actually agree that we narrowly escaped having some lunitic friends of Bush appointed to the Supreme Court and instead may actually have some qualified folks appointed…against Bush’s will of course.
TakeBackAmerica
Are you being purposely stuck on stupid or are you really unaware of the trick Bush pulled on the Democrats in Congress when he made his nominations to the Supreme Court?
Bush proposed John Roberts for Chief Justice, a devout Roman Catholic and conservative anti-abortion judge with an actively crusading anti-abortion wife. Did you watch the nomination hearings in front of the Judiciary Committee? I did. I watched Roberts smoke the Democrats on the committee. Using no notes, he recalled decisions, gave his reasons for them and made his opposition look like petulant 3rd graders.
His one and only sin that had to be opposed by the Democrats is that he is opposed to abortion on demand. Nonetheless, he upheld the law, rather than rewrite the law like Ginzberg, former chief counsel to the ACLU would prefer to do.
Having got Roberts through with flying colors, the next nominee was going to be an uphill cllimb. But Bush was very wily. He nominated a person who had no chance of being confirmed – Harriet Miers, committed Evangelical .. and Evangelicals make Catholics look like Episcopalians (I sure hope you appreciate how witty that remark is). Bush suffered the slings and arrows of “cronyism” and various other insults. But this really was a masterstroke that took an end-run around the Senatorial hatemongering Democrats on the Judiciary Committee and the public school graduates in the Press and electonic media. Miers’ nomination looked outrageous.
After Miers took herself out of consideration he proposed Alioto, not quite the Hollywood handsome, “parfit knight” like Roberts, but a committed antiabortionist who STILL upheld the law and refuse to rewrite it. Compared to Miers, the Cathoilc (again) Alioto appeared a step back for the President and, even though Senator Schumer and other Democrats sneered at the choice and voted against him – again, like Roberts, solely on the abortion issue, not on his judicial qualifications. So it appeared that the Democrats had won out against Miers and the President was “forced” to nominate someone else.
Bush allowed the Dems to save face while getting in the person he wanted all the time.
It really is an OLD trick and the Dems fell for it – hook, line an sinker, with Schumer the Head Schlimiel.
Sorry you were taken in like the Media.
October 30th, 2006 at 2:30 pmThanks for the concern, Trojan … there is no one here I have to be afraid of. I’m just a knowledgeable American, not a public school gardyu8.
LOL
October 30th, 2006 at 2:32 pmWhen asked by a someone if we want to “win in Iraq”, the answer should be – “I sure do. Do you have a plan?”
And then see what they can come up with.
October 30th, 2006 at 2:49 pmBet you were great before electricity.
October 30th, 2006 at 2:52 pm#378,
Actually you are wrong, they cannot barge into my home and name me an enemy combatant and ship me off. They need some kind of reason, and just my being armed isn’t good enough. I don’t make calls to other countries, and in fact they can listen to every call I make. I don’t care, I have nothing to hide.
The left wants my guns, Aint gonna happen.
October 30th, 2006 at 2:58 pmoh, krisy, you forgot to call names and attack personalities! just how do you suppose that a “new” “idea” could be of use to anyone? please, can we get back to feeding convenient caricatures?
nice idea, tho
October 30th, 2006 at 2:58 pmWho says “John King is one of the most precise and respected journalists in Washington” ? CNN?
Stop your Liberal B.S.
By the way, what kind of name is Wolf. Did you parents really brand you with that name?
October 30th, 2006 at 3:08 pmHe should be grateful that he haqs not been arrested yet on some trumped-up charge.
October 30th, 2006 at 3:13 pmHey Sean,
Love & kisses right back at ya, you self-copulating product of a genetic defect carrying the outward physiology of a homo-sapien.
Can you feel the love…?
October 30th, 2006 at 3:15 pm[...] Note to Dick Cheney: It wasn’t accurate. [...]
October 30th, 2006 at 3:17 pmDoug, I don’t want your gun. I don’t know anyone who does, and I go to a lot of show-off potlucks and gallery openings.
As to habeas corpus, it has been suspended, for all of us. True, no one has been picked up and locked up without possibility of appeal or review.
And it may remain so. The thing is, not one of us, including members of Congress, law enforcement, and judges left, right, and center, will know if it happens, when it happens, or whom it happens to. It is a serious Federal crime to tell any of them about it, if it happens. I’m no lawyer, but the law reads to me as if it might be a crime now just to know about such a rendition.
You ask, Doug, for an example of an American so abducted, and so you beg the most important question. With habeas corpus suspended, how can anyone ever again hope to answer your question, even if people start disappearing in some kind of Commie Rapture.
Or a Constructionist Rapture? There’s no reason to think the next guys won’t come after your folks, is there? And, by the time you even guess that’s happening, won’t it be far too late to act?
Habeas corpus is the foundation of all your rights, Doug, including your right to compensate. It is your right to face your community and its charges against you. Without it, we can drop you in a hole and cover it. And that’s murder, in every sense but the strictly literal, because you lose your life in relation to the rest of us. You’re no more a human being then than a chicken in an egg factory is a yard bird. Do you really want to surrender such a crucial piece of your heritage and mine? Do you really have the right to? I’m asking you, American to American.
October 30th, 2006 at 3:17 pmAfter years of toadying for the right wing, Wolf Blitzer can’t understand why they turn on him now. It’s their nature, Wolf, now quit whining.
October 30th, 2006 at 3:59 pm#390 Douglas G.
Actually you are wrong, they cannot barge into my home and name me an enemy combatant and ship me off. They need some kind of reason, and just my being armed isn’t good enough. I don’t make calls to other countries, and in fact they can listen to every call I make. I don’t care, I have nothing to hide.
The left wants my guns, Aint gonna happen.
They absolutely can barge into your home and name you an enemy combatant and ship you off. Why do you think they can’t? Because you don’t have dark skin or an Arabic or Persian name? Have you ever heard the term “identity theft” before? How about if a real enemy combatant steals your identity and starts buying bomb-making supplies, plane tickets to the Philippines, or making donations to Islamic causes, all with credit cards and IDs identifying him as you? Where’s the first place the FBI is going to go to ask questions? And are you so naive as to think that your say-so is all it will take to clear things up? They will have decided up front that you’re extemely dangerous. Your arrest could be a big PR score for someone. We’ve seen it enough times before where some poor schmuck was trotted out by the DoJ as a captured terrorist and then we find out that all the evidence they had was flimsy at best and then they end up eventually letting the guy go. But, some weren’t so lucky. Some innocent people got rendered. They’ve released hundreds from Guantanamo now after holding onto them for a couple of years. Would they have released them if they actually had a reason to have picked them up in the first place?
The left wants your guns? What a joke. While you’ve got your eagle eyes watching the left, the extreme right has bugged your house, put surveillance cameras in every room, mined all of your financial transactions for anything suspicious, checked out your whole family’s health records and school records, run credit checks, and looked for the slightest clue that you might be willing to sell out your country for a tidy sum. And you shouldn’t mind, because, after all, you haven’t done anything wrong. Have you?
October 30th, 2006 at 4:17 pmWhat makes me angry in all of this is that as soon as he gets an opportunity, Wolf will gladly hump her cankles to make up for being such a bad boy.
The folks in our media establishment are so eager to not dissappoint their Republican bosses that no amount of rebuke or aggression will cause them to turn away. This is what I don’t get about the supposedly “liberal” media: How long will it take you to learn that conservatives despise you? Social conservatives think you lie and true conservatives laugh at your attempts to inform people.
Listen up, pundits: Conservatives do not and will never respect you.
October 30th, 2006 at 4:34 pmpost #399 by Chimpeach
Excellent post and excellent points in it! bravo!
Its totally amazing to me that there are any trolls left spouting the Bush agenda… Here’s a picture of our trolls, that goes to explaining it.
October 30th, 2006 at 4:52 pmGroup Photo of Huffpo Trolls
CHIMP each…….have you got your waders on boy?
that crap your pedllin seems awfully tall.
You must live in a bunker by now…….seen the sun lately???
Get a grip and relax a little.
October 30th, 2006 at 4:55 pmSpeaking of Haliburton…..
How’s Whitewater going……..
You’ve got yours…….we’ve got ours………
Our politicians are all hot…..your politicians are all shot
Should a terrorist be allowed to legally live in this country????
October 30th, 2006 at 5:00 pm#369 Sean
Legalized abortion
Better than the back-alley kind.
hatred of white males
Not wanting everything in the country to be owned and controlled entirely by white males is the same as hating them? Kind of a stretch there.
a continous restriction of personal liberties since 1970
Personal liberties? You mean like people being allowed to make their own medical decisions? Or people who have a non-traditional gender preference expecting the same rights as others, nothing more?
continually raised taxes since 1932
Which taxes and whose taxes? The top income tax rate went up from ‘32 to ‘45 and down overall since then. It went down considerably while LBJ was in office and then went up under Nixon. I don’t think you have anything to back that up with.
runaway inflation (under Carter you remember)
I remember inflation under Nixon.
serious consideration of gay marriage (in any other age a laughable concept)
This is a non-issue as far as most people are concerned. It’s just something that Karl Rove uses to get the far right all riled up. Obviously, it works on you, too.
forcing black children to get up at 4 in the morning to be bussed to white schools
Not a good solution to the inequity in school funding, but not one embraced by the Democratic party, either. Blame local officials.
support of wide open borders to invaders admittedly sent by Mexico to bolster that country’s economy
Oh yeah, that’s right. We had secure borders before the Democrats opened them up. Get serious.
Clinton doubling the level of the national debt (and to be honest, he was followed by “tax and spend†Bush who did just about the same).
You’d better sit down for this, Sean. The national debt, as a percent of gross domestic product, went down during every presidency from the beginning of Truman’s to the end of Carter’s. But, then it went up throughout Reagan’s and it went up even more throughout Bush I. What do you think happened to it during Clinton’s? BZZZZT! Wrong. It went down about 10%. But, with Bush II it’s gone up higher than it was when Clinton came into office and higher than it’s been in over 50 years. At the point where Reagan came into office, it would have been easier to pay off the national debt than at any other time in the 50 years before that. But, he decided to jack up spending instead.
Kinda blows that myth about Republicans being fiscal conservatives, eh? And, by the way, George W. Bush shouldn’t be called “tax and spend”. He’d be more accurately referred to as “borrow and spend”.
You see, Sean, this is why some of us “liberals” end up calling right-wingers those bad names. Righties don’t deal in facts and so there’s not much point in trying to argue with them.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:01 pmWhen asked by a someone if we want to “win in Iraqâ€, the answer should be – “I sure do. Do you have a plan?â€
And then see what they can come up with.
Comment by krisy — October 30, 2006 @ 2:49 pm
yikes……have you not been watching and listening to the plan……..WIN in Iraq IS “the plan”
October 30th, 2006 at 5:06 pm#399 chimpeach,
Good post! Nicely said. Too many blind Bush supporters still want to believe that all they have to do is explain to a judge that they are not who the government says they are if they get wrongfully picked up. What they fail to comprehend is that if the government thinks they’re the wrong person, they won’t ever get that chance to say anything to a judge, because their right to a writ of habeas corpus may have been taken away. And there won’t be anything anybody can do about it.
And then they’ll be singing The Detainee’s Lament.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:06 pm#402 Todd
Real meaningful post. Gosh, you just slashed all my arguments to bits. Were you actually trying to say something or just testing the keyboard?
#403 Todd
And after over $50 million was spent investigating a $73 million bank failure, they ended up with nothing on the Clintons. It wasn’t for lack of trying, obviously. And how much has been spent investigating the billions of taxpayer dollars lost, fraudulently obtained, wasted, or overbilled by Halliburton in Iraq alone?
October 30th, 2006 at 5:13 pmCHIMP each…….wow, you are full of statistics !!!
I am going down to change my registration before I remember the pizza delivery girl scandal…….
You democrats are so perfect!!!! Wish I had as many news programs as you…….hey,,,,,maybe thats were the money goes?????
October 30th, 2006 at 5:16 pmReal meaningful post. Gosh, you just slashed all my arguments to bits. Were you actually trying to say something or just testing the keyboard?
#403 Todd
And after over $50 million was spent investigating a $73 million bank failure, they ended up with nothing on the Clintons. It wasn’t for lack of trying, obviously. And how much has been spent investigating the billions of taxpayer dollars lost, fraudulently obtained, wasted, or overbilled by Halliburton in Iraq alone?
Comment by chimpeach — October 30, 2006 @ 5:13 pm
Yep…..and you just made my point……they’re all good at hiding their schemes…….any Haliburton arrests????? must be same result as whitewater, spend money on investigations, let the attorney friends make money then wash it all up in a nice little story……..Just making a point that the media controls your democratic minds………Keyboard? A: check !!!
October 30th, 2006 at 5:23 pmHere is a map
Money——-> corruption——–>scandal———->NEWS (briefings from
HONEST news outlets)———–>Elections—
————->Investigation————>No Result—————————————
——————–>Back to Money and Repeat
October 30th, 2006 at 5:29 pmGotta go now……O’Reilly is on in two hours
can’t wait to cheer for my team………
October 30th, 2006 at 5:32 pm#409 Todd
Yep…..and you just made my point……they’re all good at hiding their schemes…….any Haliburton arrests????? must be same result as whitewater, spend money on investigations, let the attorney friends make money then wash it all up in a nice little story……..Just making a point that the media controls your democratic minds………Keyboard? A: check !!!
Todd, the House and Senate are run by Republicans right now and they’ve blocked any efforts to investigate Halliburton (Cheney’s old company, still making money for him, gets no-bid cost-plus contracts, was still doing business in Iraq in 2000 and in Iran in 2005).
The Whitewater investigation was conducted by Republicans while the House was run by Republicans. They had more than ample opportunity to nail Clinton if they really had anything on him.
Just making a point that the media controls your democratic minds
Do you even have the presence of mind to be embarassed by your ignorance?
October 30th, 2006 at 5:52 pm#411 Todd
Gotta go now……O’Reilly is on in two hours
can’t wait to cheer for my team………
Have some falafel while you’re watching.
October 30th, 2006 at 5:57 pmYes Wolf, I doubt your patriotism, but not how this deadly snake means it. For the last 5 years you and all the other media whores have committed treason against America by broadcasting pure propaganda for these criminals in power and you never asked the important questions about what really happened on 9/11, that gave the reason for the illegal wars, the destruction of the constitution, the taking of our freedoms and so on. For some reason you have changed. Are you an opportunist and turning away from the looser or is your bad conscience giving you night mares and are you now finally doing your job?
October 30th, 2006 at 5:58 pmKudos to chimpeach for the primer in fact checking. It didn’t go unnoticed, friend, even if the special needs posters missed it.
Do you think it would have helped to mention that two (2) Federal prosecutors investigated Whitewater separately? That they both explicitly exonerated the Clintons of wrongdoing or knowledge of wrongdoing? That one of those reports was written by Kenneth Starr himself?
No, I don’t think so either. Facts like these don’t serve the dream-state ‘reasoning’ we’re confronted with in here when the true believers start typing. Nevertheless, I appreciate your efforts.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:06 pm#310- Tell me please, oh so wise one, WHAT EXACTLY is the “lib’rul Hollywood Elite agenda”? You people make me laugh at your absolute fear of anyone or anything that’s different or unfamiliar.
You guys operate on 3 things, and 3 things ONLY: IGNORANCE, FEAR, and HATRED. That’s all you know. Sad, really.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:09 pmWow… the comments from the left, who actually refuse to see that this was clearly an ambush of Dr. Cheney, have assured me I should be voting for people who are not on the left, no matter what party they are affiliated with in this election. So many crazies in one spot, I thought for a moment I was at KOS!
October 30th, 2006 at 6:28 pmThe U.S. is going down the tubes and she wants to talk about a childrens book she wrote. The only reason she was invited on the show is because of Darth Vadar. If it wasn’t for that the old bag wouldn’t be invited on any show to talk about that silly book. Shows you how these elite are in complete denial about what they are doing to us peons.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:32 pmPoor Whiney Whiney Wolf got sniped by Mrs. Cheney!! Love it.
October 30th, 2006 at 6:40 pmCNN is one the most bias media in this country, of course right after Fox. Supporting the Axis of Greed (George Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld) or in general this administration for years, now they deserve this!
October 30th, 2006 at 6:57 pmSurprised at her sniping at my patriotism.
So, Mr. Blitzer, the rhetoric coming out of the White House and its many sycophants (Coulter, Limbaugh, Savage, et al) didn’t faze you before because it didn’t affect you personally, even as the patriotism of many of your countrymen was being questioned.
Their allegiance to their country, as well as their commitment to what the US stands for was put on trial in the vilest of ways. Any dissenter was subjected to the cruelest of smears because they were opposed to the expansion of presidential powers, imprisoning of people without a trial, and subjecting said prisoners to “enhanced interrogation techniques” aka torture. And you, Mr. Blitzer, stood by all this time and said nothing.
Welcome to what the rest of us has had to live with for the past four years.
I hope you’ve learnt your lesson and speak up before it’s too late next time -even though I am afraid we are not as lucky as to have a next time.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:11 pmWelcome to the real world Wolf. You have been stroking the right and Bush Whitehouse & Co. for five years. How do you like the rights wrath? Your generation of Journalists will go into the history books. You have all sat on your hands for years and been Bushes propaganda machine. Have you ever heard of the word Integrity? Your network no longer has any Integrity. You and all the other Journalists and owners of CNN are enjoying your tax cuts. You all know very well that if the democrates take a majority in the house or senate they will roll back your tax cuts. That would be sweet justice. May God forgive all of you who have helped cover up the lies that continue to take innocent lives with this immoral war. Good luck on Judgement Day.
October 30th, 2006 at 7:58 pmIt would be so sweet to give all these corrupt people their walking papers. But lets not forget how elections are won or lost in the age of technology. They are won not by the voting public, but by the software within the voting machines which will count votes as they are instructed to count them. They will actually ignore your wishes and cast your vote for you. That way you don’t have to do all that heavy thinking. So, don’t be shocked when you wake up on the 8th and hear how the Repugs have held on to the control of both the House and Senate and maybe will even picked up a few seats. Don’t forget the lessons of 2004.
October 30th, 2006 at 9:19 pmHey Sean,
Love & kisses right back at ya, you self-copulating product of a genetic defect carrying the outward physiology of a homo-sapien.
Can you feel the love…?
Comment by Zooey — October 30, 2006 @ 3:15 pm
I think Zooey – the name of a fictional character as Robin of Locksley back earlier in this blog was told, so he deserved to be attacked – is expecting me to find Franny and mutally pleasure themselves while ripping out pages of JD Salinger.
Zooey, you’re just a cancer. You and all the hyper libs who never see beyond your navals. I want you to know, however, that I’m very glad that you and the others have each other during the long nights. It’s only scary that you and other public school propagandized membes of the Margaret Sanger generation claim to vote.
Love and kisses, Zooey. God – pardon, your prefer god – knows you need all you can get.
October 30th, 2006 at 11:23 pmBefore I leave, I have to comment on the shared opinion among all the very liberal bloggers here, that CNN is hovering somewhere far to the right of John Quincy Adams (a historical allusion, I trust you’ll accept without understanding).
This really proves that your planet is east of Pluto. ANYONE of ANY political stripe who can POSSIBLY mistake CNN for a conservative news channel proves that they NEVER listen to that pompous blowhard, Rush Limbaugh, or the very pleased with himself, Bill O’Really (yes I actually spelled it like that – it’s for affect). I listen to Rush occasionally, only to learn what new reason is being touted by Big Oil for rising prices – and I watch Bill to watch him glower at the camera.
From what I’ve seen here, folks like Zooey, barfly, shield and TakeAmericaBack have absolutely no concept of reality, no concept of history, a lousy sense of quid pro quo, while your combined senses of humor is of the mos basic, cruel kind. The kinds of people who may chuckle of someone slips on a banana, but falls down in hysterics if there’s a compound fracture.
You’re cruel. You condescend. You ignore what you know is true but can’t bare to admit. I have yet to have someone mention the cleverness of Bush to get Alioto confirmed by sending in Miers as a stalking horse (look it up).
So thank you very much for 24 hours of juvenile, insulting, nasty, mostly childish and certainly undereducated and unlettered blather masquerading as archly acute wit.
“Wit, not so, you never had an atom. And as for letters, you need but three to write you down. A – S – S … ass.”
October 30th, 2006 at 11:46 pm— Cyrano de Bergerac – Act 1 Scene 1. Look it up.
The Cheney-Bush gang has been crying “wolf” for so long now I guess Blitzer finally got tired of hearing his name used in vain. Talk about weather-vanes, these guys hardly ever ask hard questions. If Hitler were out there as a politician, imagine what sorts of questions CNN and Fox would ask him. “So, you support a law and order society…. Do you watch a lot of NBC programming? Which is your favorite?”
October 31st, 2006 at 7:55 amGee, how come Sean never talks about the issues he cares about so much, but only plays sitcom shrink with typing strangers? I just don’t get it, since I’m so so stupid. Why do we, individually and together, matter to him so much, and only as personalities?
I have a guess. He keeps ripping the public schools, apropos of nothing. (Yes, I spelled it apropos! Look it up!) Do you suppose some P.S. 1 toughs stalked him in his prep school blazer, shorts, & garters all his boyhood, turning him upside down and shaking him to empty his pockets for cigarette money? Taking his violin apart with their pocketknives? Pantsing him in the girls’ school playground?
Nah, that’s not it. Because Sean never went to prep school. Maybe not even to college. If he had, he would know, for one thing, the difference between ‘affect’ and ‘effect.’ He doesn’t. All his desperate pretension – could it be compensation for the shallows under his turbid posturing?
Stupide est comme stupide fait, ne l’est pas?
October 31st, 2006 at 11:26 amFake but accurate,
October 31st, 2006 at 1:05 pmI guess that would qualify Cheney as an actual human. I wonder if all his friends have the same agreement? My congratulations to the Cheney’s to realize that some of their dealings need to remain transparent. Would this in any way be akin to the republicans constent chirping about moral relativism? Hezbollah also gives to charity, does that mean they shouldn’t be despised and brought to justice for all the laws they’ve broken, international, constitutional or otherwise? In hindsight, now that you mention it, it sure makes me feel better that over a half a million innocent Iraqi’s and 3000 US service peolple died so that Cheney could write off his charitable contributions.
Face it, Lynn Cheney is a mean-spirited bitch who makes a perfect partner for her bastard husband. What a glorious bunch of cowardly criminals we have leading this country. Between the bitch and her bastard and the Fool Scumbag and his very mediocre Librarian, what a quartet. Who would have thunk it? This is one of those times in history that will be written up as a case study of brainwashing of the masses. In my view, we get what we deserve.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:06 pmShield,
October 31st, 2006 at 1:30 pmQuoting Forrest Gump doesn’t make you look a whole lot smarter. Even if it is in French. Sean worked you over quite well I’d say.
Like Darth Cheney, Lynn Cheney is a flaming idiot and deserves a smack right up-side her obviously empty head.
October 31st, 2006 at 2:36 pmin #427 shield reacts to sean’s remarks in #425 in exactly the way sean said he and other liberal snots had been posting throughout this blog. Could shield really be sean in disguise, to make his prediction come true? If not, shield must be brain dead. Of course I’ve noticed this is the typical state of liberals in the zombie-stage.
October 31st, 2006 at 2:59 pmF is for fighting!
R is for red! Ancestor’s blood in the battles they shed.
E we elect them!
E we eject them! The land of the free and the home of the brave.
D is for dying!
O we overturn!
M is for money, you know what that cures.
This spells out freedom, it means nothing to me…
…as long as there’s a PMRC!
Shove your hand right up my shirt, and pull the strings that make me work.
Jaws apart, the hooks fall out, like a fish, with hook in a mouth!
Many thanks to Dave Mustaine for writing those lyrics. Lest we forget that they were written with people like Lynne Cheney (and Tipper Gore unfortunately) specifically in mind.
How ironic that we sit here and they’re applicable today for many other things…
October 31st, 2006 at 3:07 pmShield …
Sean keeps ripping the public schools because they’re dens of disorder and a lot of students are not learning anything there. Or haven’t you read the news, listened to the news or watched the news for the past 20 years?
Why the hell can’t you liberals ever stick to the point instead of smearing people like John Kerry just did the President on TV trying to get backpeddle his way out of his blatant insult to the brave soldiers in Iraq?
You people need to have happen to you what happened to Malcolm McDowell in Clockwork Orange, in your case, aversion therapy to liberal lies.
October 31st, 2006 at 3:08 pmSpeaking of Haliburton…..
How’s Whitewater going……..
You’ve got yours…….we’ve got ours………
Our politicians are all hot…..your politicians are all shot
Should a terrorist be allowed to legally live in this country????
I think the real question is Can Todd form a complete sentence? And a follow-up question would be If Todd were ever able to form a complete sentence, would it ever be worth paying any attention to?
October 31st, 2006 at 3:15 pmThe French Gump was a joke, you apparently humorless (though fascist!)lump. It’s only stupid people who care whether they look smart, as I’m sure you’ve heard all too well.
As for Sean, what are you talking about? He projected some fantasies and spun some stillborn speculations that didn’t merit comment. That you don’t point out anything in his burblings in particular as of value suggests either that you can’t find one or don’t care to so long as you can carp.
Well played either way!
Here, I’ll show you. S is terribly proud of his fantasy that GWB nominated Meiers (whose name S can’t spell – shocking for such a hypereducated mensch, dyt?) as a stalking horse, to bleed the hysterical lib’ral invective out of the Congress before putting up Alito (which S also can’t spell), his ‘real’ choice.
So, S believes that GWB deliberately nominated someone HE thought was unqualified, as a political trick, putting all of us at risk if she – the unqualified – were affirmed. And S believes staff and advisors all went along with such dereliction. Haven’t we passed into absurdity with that?
Never mind. Suppose they all thought it was a great idea. Then Mr Bush threw his unqualified friend and colleague of 20-odd years into a vetting process that was sure to take her apart. A process which would give her nothing but pain, embarrassment, and certain humiliation (unless, somehow, she were actually confirmed, remember). Now, does she know this going in, or does the White House, knowing that she’s a poor actor, too, keep the clever secret from her? It’s one or the other. She either chose to be the pawn in a lie that would gain her nothing, or she was used in the part by everyone on staff who had reviewed the plan, were they for it or not.
Hard to draw the line from those alternatives to the present, where Ms Meiers is still working at the White House, in the same job. Would you do that, even at the White House, after you’d been offered up for a public and official bitchslapping, whether you were in on it or not?
OK, maybe you would. I don’t know you. But here’s the telling point, I think. No one can lead by throwing their friends and allies under the wheels for traction, for the simple reason that, once you do, every one of your friends and allies steps back from you a step, or at least those prudent enough to act for their own preservation. The thing is, once your boss hangs the guy in the next cubicle, there’s no way to conclude it won’t happen to you. In fact, it is proof that you are a candidate for that at least, and – who knows? – maybe worse.
So, even if Ms Meiers was fine with the tar and feathers, to deliberately do that to her rebuffed the loyalty of everyone else on the team. The smart ones know it, and they told the rest to watch out.
These are the real world concerns such a silly plan would beach itself upon. And no one with leadership experience is going to make such an inept call. You lose the trust and loyalty of your people, you might as well start packing.
Now that I’ve disposed of this doodad, I do want to say that I understand its appeal, however ridiculous. To conceive of the Meiers nomination as concealing secret craft – of whatever description – is the antithesis of the only alternative explanation:
That he meant it. That he is that wrong. That dim.
It must be hard to take such a stark view, if you’ve been hopeful for six years, that it would all somehow turn out right with these guys. So, rather than face their bottomless incompetence and one’s own bottomless error, it could be easier to believe they would eat their own, and cleverly. You know, “at least I wasn’t fooled by stupid people for six years!”
But take heart from this. If he really is so stupid that he wanted Meiers on the Court, then he was also that stupid when he invaded Iraq, and is that stupid today. So, at least he’s throwing our young men and women under the wheels for traction. He is at least clever enough to do it over there.
Of course, he doesn’t know those kids. Must make it different somehow.
So, what about S, you silly, silly nazi? He didn’t say anything any more grounded than that, did he?
And, by the way, when I suggest Mr Bush is stupid, I don’t mean necessarily that he lacks intelligence. Intelligence is only a potential, a capacity. It has to be trained. We all know smart people who are just stupid, one way or another. I mean, look at S.
October 31st, 2006 at 3:53 pmLynn Cheney gave ol Wolfie a few lumps. She was there to talk about her childrens book and he blindsides her w/ everthing but…
He then goes on to quote Dem talking points. What a Scum Bag!
November 2nd, 2006 at 5:17 pmWay to slap him down, Mrs. Cheney!! You had Wolfie with his tail between his legs. You were there to talk about your book, but were only given 3-4 minutes max to discuss your book. CNN anticipated your responses to be weak, but you showed them just how smart you are and just how mighty this presidency is…your comments were very concise and truthful. Your “slap down” really came across eloquently. I am proud of your representation of the Bush administration. You are truly a great American woman.
November 6th, 2006 at 8:42 pm“Way to slap him down, Mrs. Cheney!!” Comment by Ryan–Naples,Florida
Ryan, bless your little heart, of all these comments, yours is just the cutest. Your shout-outs to Mrs. Cheney at the bottom of this list almost make me want to cry. Sweetie, I hate to break this to you, but go check out Bill O’Retardly’s website…. amidst his hypergushing over Mrs. Cheney’s ridiculous and embarrassing rant towards a reporter actually asking HER of all people a POLITICAL question, he offers her some for-the-camera sympathy for having to hear ~bad things~ in the news about her criminal husband. She puts his fears to rest by informing him– I’m not making this up– that she doesn’t really read the news… she just quickly glances at the headlines and decides if the following story will be something that she will like. Can’t you just see it? “Let’s see…. what’s in today’s news…. ‘Puppies Are Nice, Experts Say’.. Oooh, yes! I’ll read THAT! *I* like puppies!!! Yes, yes, they ARE nice!!!.. what’s this next one say… ‘Thousands Dead In Iraq as Civil War Continues’ OOOH, GROSS!! What unappreciative JERKS! I don’t want to read those bad words! You bad newspaper, you go bye-bye now!” So Ryan, considering the comments on this webpage start out by strongly pointing out Lynne’s brainlessness and how grossly inappropriate her toddler-esque outburst toward Wolf was, I doubt even if she WERE to take time out from her esteemed writing career to read this site, rest assured she did not get far before climbing back into her hole of ignorance with her hands over her eyes, chanting, “I did not see that… I did not see that….. They like me. They like my husband. I like Valium. Everything is OK.” Can’t you just see our poor first lady living the same kind of existance? “Everything’s fine… everything’s fine… don’t let the facts and polls and rising unrest get to you…. my husband has not caused thousands of deaths in order to get richer…. he is not a moderately retarded imbecile… he is not an amoral monster who has ceased representing the people and headed us all down a long spiral of misery on the whims of his own paranoia and hate and intolerance and lunacy…. oh, and he mispronounces 40% of all common words just as a little joke… yes, that’s it… as a little joke… why, that’s actually kind of CUTE, in that light! yes, everything is FINE…..”
And by the way, I agree with the poster above who noted Wolf’s “getting better lately.” He certainly is. He is restoring my faith in the media.
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