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Cheney: Lynne gave Wolf Blitzer ‘the slapdown.’

In an interview today with Fox News, Vice President Cheney said his wife’s combative recent CNN appearance was “great” and “very accurate,” adding, “We refer to it around the house as the slapdown.” Watch it:

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Note to Dick Cheney: It wasn’t accurate.

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Transcript:

CAVUTO: Your wife, Mr. Vice President, created a little bit of a stir in an appearance on a rival news network last week, taking exception to the way that network portrayed the economy, the government, that things are going to hell in a hand basket. I’m sort of paraphrasing here. Actually, she was much more to the point that I’m being. What did you think of that?

CHENEY: I thought it was great. We refer to it around the house as the slapdown. And she was very tough, but she was very accurate and very aggressive.



102 Responses to “Cheney: Lynne gave Wolf Blitzer ‘the slapdown.’”

  1. bumblebums says:

    These losers need professional help. Cuckoo…..


  2. Karim says:

    She’s as crazy as he is. Why should we the people give any credence to what either of these two idiots have to say?


  3. SpudgeBoy says:

    Nobody else thinks it was a slap down, except Neo-Cons who all have their heads up their asses and can’t really see or hear the TV.


  4. todd says:

    um, yeah, the smack down. u mean like, talking smack? the cheneys seem to think talking sternly to someone and disregarding any possible FACTS that might see the light of day, as being a smack down. i swear, i thought dick was a slick liar but apparently they take turns in the mirror practicing their fabricated rebuttals. much like the torture issue… why is it not torture? bc we say it’s not!


  5. katy says:

    and, what house would that be?


  6. kindness says:

    Gotta wonder who wears the stap-on in the house.

    Dick – you get points for chugging the Kool-Aide, but we’re taking points away from you because you apparently let your wife guzzle it.

    Bad Vice President…BAD!!!!


  7. Zooey says:

    They share a house?


  8. Technodaoist says:

    Wow. I never would have imagined that Faux News would be Cheney’s go-to team for damage control. Its like he never watches anything else.

    If that were the case though, how did he find out about Lynne’s embarrasing tirade on CNN?


  9. Robert says:

    His revisionist history is as bad as her porn fiction.


  10. Pissed+Off says:

    “Salpdown” or “Smackdown” whatever you call it I prefer “Wrestlepalooza”

    Let me in the ring with Dick and Lynn. I will take them on both. If I win, we follow the Constitution and get rid of him, his wife and the rest of the neo-con crap.

    If they win, then we have ourselves a party, by the banks of Potomac, where we toss every politician and judge into the river and start all over again. We’ll call it “Boston Tea Party – Redux”

    Either way, We The People… win.


  11. Foley's Spooged Nokia says:

    Considering his reality-challenged take on everything else (WMDs, Last Throes, etc etc), his description of his wife’s meltdown as a “slapdown” of Blitzer should come as no surprise.


  12. Mr. Evil says:

    If I was Wolf Blitzer, I would begin a scathing analysis of Lynne Cheney’s book and anything else that may turn up on her. What a complete psycho-bitch. And as for Dick (head), he proved once again that arrogance is paramount to the facts.


  13. Dog_named_Boo says:

    Neo-cons are not very nice compassionate christian people eh? Attacking their own like a mother dog might eat its deformed.

    Poor Wolfie has been thrown to the hounds by momma jackal.


  14. Pissed+Off says:

    CHENEY: I thought it was great…she was very tough, but she was very accurate and very aggressive.

    I have a Dobermann that is very tough, accurate and aggressive. Would Lynn like to mate with “Zeus”?


  15. Kermit the Freedom Frog says:

    Yes, Iraq, Lynn Cheney, and Republican 2006 prospects are doing remarkably well.

    Also, political opposition is in its last throes.


  16. PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) says:

    It’s good that he stood by his wife – I just wish they stood by each other VERY FAR AWAY from me and from any microphone.


  17. Kermit+the+Freedom+Frog says:

    Mr VP, if we could give Lynn Cheney a dunk in water, wouldn’t that be a no-brainer? ;)


  18. John says:

    These people run on pure ego.


  19. Dog_named_Boo says:

    CAVUTO: Your wife, Mr. Vice President, created a little bit of a stir in an appearance on a rival news network last week..

    So Cheney actually sees ‘his’ nutwork as FOX and the nutjobs @ nutwork A the ‘rival’ news nutwork..holy jeebus, talk about your un-balanced nutworks!


  20. dlet says:

    Thats some good drugs Dick is taking. Up is down. Left is Right. The truth is north, south, east or west of here somewhat. Karl gets them only the primo stuff. Cheney’s body is wasted by using it to carry around that empty head. They should just deploy out to Iraq to up-armor some vehicle.


  21. RayFromGA says:

    You know I read excerpts from http://www.whitehouse.org and I dont see what the big deal is. There’s no graphic mention of lesbian love like you F’n phoney Dems would like. Talk about real issues that affect the country you punks!


  22. James says:

    Yeah, this is the “slapdown” and the drunken shoooting was the “unfortunate accident”, hehehehe.


  23. Dog_named_Boo says:

    You people are being mean, as I was I. I apologize for my disrespect.
    I would like to start a Cheney gift fund. I think we should give the two of them a nice, peaceful, cozy, just the two, a trip somewhere, with a suburban full of deli meats and cheese, a Keg of beer and a few shotguns, a couple of lawyer costumes….


  24. dlet says:

    You know I read excerpts from http://www.whitehouse.org and I dont see what the big deal is. There’s no graphic mention of lesbian love like you F’n phoney Dems would like. Talk about real issues that affect the country you punks!

    Comment by RayFromGA

    Excerpts are pieces that are taken ou of the book. That means there are many more parts that you have not seen. Think that maybe there might be some in the parts you didn’t see? Duh? And if you want to talk about things that affect this country go to another thread. Duh. But I must say you are correct on one thing. I do love the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls.


  25. epm says:

    Is there anyone on the plant who believes Fox News is actually a news organization and not an arm or the Republican National Committee. No, really.


  26. WA says:

    It’s a good thing they found each other. How else can the genetically challenged find love?


  27. john+o. says:

    president cheney and rayfromGA doubtless would agree that Wolf needs a good dunking in water to get his mind right.


  28. dlet says:

    Anyone who works at Fox should definately reconsider their career.


  29. Zooey says:

    Is there anyone on the plant who believes Fox News is actually a news organization and not an arm or the Republican National Committee. No, really.
    Comment by epm

    Well, here in Idaho…*cringe*


  30. leftcoast says:

    It is so embarrassing to witness our Vice-President, a leader of the most powerful nation in the world appearing on a talk show and see him use such words as “slapdwon” to characterize a meeting with a respected journalist. It was just as embarrassing as our President appearing with the likes of Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly is no journalist. He’s just a well renown porn novelist. These men continue to comport themselves as if running a thirdworld country. I think they should dress in military fatigues when making these appearances. But, far from being a “slapdown”, I watched Lynne Cheney meltdown as she attempted to dance around the Vice-President’s unequivocal remarks on water-boarding.


  31. Badmoodman says:

    Well Wolfie sure didn’t slapdown Lynne. That’s virtually impossible to do through the impenetrable Bubble of Denial that all employees of BushCo reside in.


  32. Heynow says:

    Wolf talked to her like a mental patient. She seemed like someone who isn’t dealing with reality and is barely hanging on to sanity. It was kind of sad.


  33. unitynow says:

    All that interview did was confirm Lynn Cheney’s serious level of denial and engagement in a vehement, disgusting lack of self-control and composure. She looked like an desperate, attacking fool! She’s definitely shot herself personally in the foot and any positive rep she may have had with women is over – she looked like a desperate individual, without sane and logical answers, who just lashes out at everything and everyone in the universe. She totally “lost it” and it wasn’t pretty. Naturally, Veep hubby would think she was “great”….the more repulsive one acts, the greater the kudos with this group of thugs…that’s apparent!


  34. unitynow says:

    words of a proven idiot: “slapdown”….he’s the joke!


  35. unitynow says:

    How totally “Orwellian”…hah!


  36. BuckarooBanzai says:

    “we call that the slapdown around the house”…oh, I thought that’s what Lynn called it when she put that little red rubber ball in your mouth, tightened the straps, and takes the riding crop to you. What a twisted, draft-dodging, torture loving freak this guy is.


  37. PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) says:

    Is there anyone on the plant who believes Fox News is actually a news organization and not an arm or the Republican National Committee. No, really.
    Comment by epm

    Well, here in Idaho…*cringe* Comment by Zooey

    Well, in my family…**double cringe**


  38. ForTruth says:

    Judging by Cheney’s smirk, he knows why his wife is always giving the smackdown.


  39. unitynow says:

    Maybe Lynne needs to “slapdown” his Swiss Miss?


  40. Zooey says:

    Well, in my family…**double cringe**
    Comment by PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC)

    Well, since you’ve given up your family, I’ll give up mine.
    **double cringe**

    At least my dad finally figured out that visits go better without Fox on the television.


  41. PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) says:

    Zooey

    My parents just visited this weekend and we did not discuss politics (an unspoken truce) but I noticed that my father said he does not listen to any of the political rhetoric anymore (which is equivalent to FOX in his world). He has also begun to make more positive comments about how well Hillary Clinton has done as his senator (he’s from NY), “despite how some have tried to portray her”. He also is disgusted with the anti-gay rhetoric. Maybe by 2008….


  42. DanielK. says:

    I think they ARE stepping up the attacks to influence the elections, and conservatives should trumpet this as good news. It means that we’re winning! They’re desperate enough to try to get the maniacs who are bombing them out of office.
    Of course, it also implies that our enemy has been holding back and has enough reserves that they can afford to attack more or less as they see fit, so that’s bad news. Hmmmm, kind of a double-edged sword, this particular talking point. If I were them, I’d retire it faster than “stay the course.”


  43. bonesTwo says:

    What a twisted, draft-dodging, torture loving freak this guy is.

    This was the Cheney’s, not the Clintons. Don’t be angry that an intelligent, well spoken woman slapped Blitzed Wolfie around. Did you see how he stuttered when she asked him if he wanted to win….he almost fell over. Truth is, the answer is not clear. She called his ass out on the Domestic Surveilance program, hilarious.


  44. white phosphorous says:

    the only slapdown of late was what Bill Clinton did to Chris Wallace….


  45. chill says:

  46. unbelievable says:

    I wonder what they call Dick shooting that guy in the face? The Shootdown?

    What immature nonsense. He clearly has a very, very tiny penis he’s compensating for with that bully mentality.


  47. chill says:

    Billmon nailed it:


  48. ForTruth says:

    Cheney’s so small, they didn’t have to blur out his crotch when he was on Jerry Springer.


  49. buffalordr.com » Blog Archive » Next Thing We Know She Won’t Even Have Written The Book says:

    [...] Oh Dick, sending your wife on TV to try to be hatchetwoman. Unfortunately it appears that she was sort of fibbing when she said she never dabbled in literary (homosexual) erotica. [...]


  50. unbelievable says:

    Cheney’s so small, they didn’t have to blur out his crotch when he was on Jerry Springer.
    Comment by ForTruth — October 30, 2006 @ 4:43 pm

    But they did for his wife’s penis… :D


  51. RealScientist says:

    I can’t wait for Cheney to go to jail where he belongs.


  52. AvengingAngel says:

    Perhaps Lynne Cheney will discuss her 1981 novel of lesbian love in the old West, “Sisters.”

    For the details, see:
    “Jim Webb and the Pornographers of the Right.”


  53. shmo says:

    The Cheneys.

    We refer to them around our house as the Wackjobs.


  54. john says:

    hurry up and die cheney you nazi wannabe


  55. I+have+BDS says:

    What immature nonsense. He clearly has a very, very tiny penis he’s compensating for with that bully mentality.

    Comment by unbelievable

    We all know enough about penises from the former President Bubba.
    Please enough penis stories unbelievable.


  56. Loonie says:

    See, Cheney knows the urban street lingo. Lynne put the slapdown on Blitzer’s dawg. They’re home with the downies. Additionally, I’d wager they ice mothers who dis their crew.

    What a revolting collection of human beings the Cheneys are. Do you suppose if they pooled all their resources together, they could come up with one decent trait between them?


  57. rainlillie says:

    Lynn came across like a rude obnoxious drunk! She really needs to go back to acting class , because she failed to convince me that she was as upset as she pretended to be. Also she knew that Wolf was going to ask her questions about politics, therefore she tried to do a Clinton on Wolf… Oh that didn’t come our right.. I mean she tried to act as if she were shocked that he would ask her such questions. In the words of Mike Malloy.. “God I hate these people!”


  58. rainlillie says:

    “. Do you suppose if they pooled all their resources together, they could come up with one decent trait between them?”

    ROTFLMAO!!! LOVE IT!!


  59. Zooey says:

    He also is disgusted with the anti-gay rhetoric. Maybe by 2008….
    Comment by PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC)

    There is always hope! My dad used to be fairly socially liberal, but these last few years, after he started watching O’Reilly, have been pretty bad. I had to stop talking politics with him after argument I had with him during the Katrina clusterf*ck — it almost ruined our relationship.


  60. BigCynic.com says:

    I nominate Dick Cheney as the biggest traitor in modern American history. For selling out America to the oil and defense industries, he is the Benedict Arnold of his generation. His fake patriotism is disguisting.


  61. PatrioticLiberalChristian(PLC) says:

    Zooey

    I miss the political discussions with my father. I remember a great debate about VietNam that my father, grandfather, and I had about 1971 when I had to register for the draft. But like you it became a huge danger to our relationship during the run-up to Iraq when my skepticism was met with his WWII gung-ho, save the world, liberals hate America rhetoric. At least, I know my father is pretty libertarian. I just hope he sees how the current neocons are anything but.


  62. unbelievable says:

    We all know enough about penises from the former President Bubba.
    Please enough penis stories unbelievable.
    Comment by I+have+BDS — October 30, 2006 @ 4:55 pm

    At least Clinton had one. Cheney would be a better example for vaginas.

    Makes you uncomfortable doesn’t it? Using medically correct terminology for reproductive organs… Okay, replace penis with ‘pee-pee’, andthen re-read it. That’s about right for your your self-derrisive neocon three-year-old mentality…


  63. Fools+on+the+Hill says:

    Dick is a bad man, if you will.


  64. Bluedog49 says:

    And remember, unbelievable, it’s not vagina, it’s woo-woo.

    I’m a little unsure why Clinton standing up for himself when someone attacks his performance a “meltdown,” while Lynn Cheney questioning the media’s patriotism for a report they’ve done is a “smackdown.”


  65. wisedup says:

    the ’slapdown’ was when Wolf ‘SLAPPED DOWN’ lynn!!!


  66. Bluedog49 says:

    Blitzer: “Does your novel have lesbian love affairs?”

    Cheney: “Not exactly…”

    ‘Let us go away together, away from the anger and the imperatives of men. We shall find ourselves a secluded bower where they dare not venture. There will be only the two of us, and we shall linger through long afternoons of sweet retirement. In the evenings I shall read to you while you work your cross-stitch in the firelight. And then we shall go to bed, our bed, my dearest girl. . . .’

    — Sisters, Lynn Cheney


  67. ren says:

    “Smackdown”? What is this the “WWF”?
    Would it be called “The White House Smackdown”?
    Or “CNN Smackdown”? Sounds like F-ucking “Crossfire” or some Sh!t..


  68. ren says:

    I shall read to you while you work your cross-stitch in the firelight.
    — Sisters, Lynn Cheney

    Dude that isn’t only bad writing but, it is soooo gay….


  69. Bluedog49 says:

    I agree that the writing is horrrrible! As bad as it gets. But, other parts of the book, especially those describing the horror of getting it on with men, make it clear that the author is a lesbian, even if she doesn’t know it.


  70. unbelievable says:

    And remember, unbelievable, it’s not vagina, it’s woo-woo.
    Comment by Bluedog49 — October 30, 2006 @ 6:23 pm

    Oh yes… Though, I figured there was no point in making that distinction to “I have BeenDrinkingSemen”, as it’s clear he’ll never be close enough to one to need to call it anything :D


  71. Bluedog49 says:

    Thank you, unbelievable. I never thought about what his name meant and now I’m feeling a little sick. I doubt that he’s ever seen “High Anxiety” anyway.


  72. Marie says:

    It looks like only the Cheneys and their friends are calling it a slapdown – and they are delusional. But Blitzer learned he dare not cross them.
    Wolfie got to feel what the wrath of the Cheneys feels like – after kissing their asses for six years, all he has is a face full of crap.
    They are ugly people. Rotten and corrupt, selfish and arrogant.


  73. Bluedog49 says:

    Personally, I’m more than a little annoyed that Wolf Blitzer has been able to sit there and stare off into space countless times while people like Lynn Cheney questioned the patriotism of Democrats, but it’s only when she questions HIS patriotism that he gets a burr in his butt.


  74. unbelievable says:

    I never thought about what his name meant and now I’m feeling a little sick. I doubt that he’s ever seen “High Anxiety” anyway.
    Comment by Bluedog49 — October 30, 2006 @ 7:10 pm

    He never denies it… :D


  75. NewProg says:

    *71 LMAO!!!

    I HaveBeenDrinkingSemen… that was hillarious. Where do you come up with that? Also the posts with the wee-wee were great!


  76. . says:

    …out of the dank and the dark, I continued slowly gliding down the canal of Taint, till at last, I gently bumped into the little man in the boat, over and over;he stood up at attention, as if to look around, and then the dam broke. Ecstacy…

    -Sisters, Lynne Cheney


  77. Why+are+there+so+many+pedophile+republicans? says:

    Yep. They always refer to lies as the bitch slap. They bitch slap the American people all the time. I’m sure Lyne waers the pants in that family.


  78. unbelievable says:

    I HaveBeenDrinkingSemen… that was hillarious. Where do you come up with that? Also the posts with the wee-wee were great!
    Comment by NewProg — October 30, 2006 @ 7:35 pm

    4 hours every day around 16-18 year old boys? I teach them architecture and they teach me how to see anything and everything in a completely perverted teenage way… :D


  79. JPark says:

    #44 This was the Cheney’s, not the Clintons

    Yes, all new and more evil in every bite.


  80. The+Unknown+Democrat says:

    If Wolf had any balls, he’d call Cheney on this BS story he did on Faux News, with fatboy. But Wolf is a wanna be Faux News Republican waterboy, who can’t kiss enough Republican butt to be treated nice by this evil witch who is married to that jerk who did the interview with fatboy. This guy makes Baghdad Bod look like an amature when it comes to lying about the facts. If the Sun is shining and Cheney says it raining those stupid so called conservative evangalicals start bringing out he umberllas.

    They are so f’d up in the head that they actually believed Baghdad Bod when he said there were no American troops approaching Baghdad. I guess all you have to do to BS a evangalical conservative is be a Republican and use the word conservative and they’ll believe the sky is falling. I thought to myself, these people can’t be that stupid, but I was wrong, they are dumb.


  81. ren says:

    It’s “Bagdad Bob”


  82. Drew+Mackenzie says:

    I see your slapdown and raise you an electoral Tuesday A$$KICKING.


  83. Egoigwe says:

    The two basket mouths handsomely deserve each other. They call it the ’slapdown’ around the house. I’m curious to the heavens to know what they call George? These are very desperate folks and behind every devil is a Jezebel. What we all witnessed was the natural convulsions of a dead man walking. Well, you know what they say…. up jumps the devil!


  84. tom+baker says:

    Ray from GA – I’d like to talk about a national issue of high importance – Education. How did you get to be an adult who can type and use a computer, but still be so damned dumb you’d stick up for people like the Cheney’s? To me, that signals a crucial failure in our education system. What do you think we could do to correct it? I think we should make American History a required subject for all 12 years of the public education curriculum.


  85. I+have+BDS says:

    I teach them architecture and they teach me how to see anything and everything in a completely perverted teenage way…

    Comment by unbelievable

    Proud child abuser aren’t ya.
    Evolution has done wonders for you unbelievable.


  86. unbelievable says:

    Proud child abuser aren’t ya.

    What? Teaching architecture is child abuse? You’re an idiot.

    Evolution has done wonders for you unbelievable.
    Comment by I+have+BDS — October 31, 2006 @ 4:16 pm

    Individuals don’t evolve… Species do.

    Dumb troll.


  87. I+have+BDS says:

    Such a child unbelievable
    You are so immature.
    It is scary as hell you consider yourself a teacher.
    Just goes to show you how low standards are for moonbats like you.
    Evolution is a fairytale. Yes species evolve but not into new species.
    You need to go back to school seriously and try again.


  88. Cami Lampert says:

    I think Mrs. Cheney is GREAT!!!!!! Coming from Massachusetts where we hold our noses at having to admit housing John Kerry!!! Mrs. Cheney shoots from the hip, is able to verbalize what Mrs. Bush cannot. She let’s the desperate, vote seeking Democrats, have it right between the eyes! You go girl.


  89. Teresa says:

    Mrs. Cheney read the riot act to Wolf Blitzer about CNN showing film clips of
    US soldiers shot in Iraq.. This is news just as Vice-president Cheney’s directive to Senater Patrick Leahy on the floor of the senate chamber a few
    years ago

    The Bill of Rights are still in effect


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