Lynne Cheney Takes On CNN
And proved to be a formidable foe to Blitzer. I do admire the fact that she went into an ambush and was able to have Blitzer answering to her! VIDEO LINK HERE
CHENEY: You made a point last night of a man who had a bookstore in London where radical islamists gathered. Who was in Afghanistan when the Taliban were there. Who went to Pakistan. You know, I think that you might be a little careful before you declare this as a person with clean hands.
WOLF: You are receiving to the CNN “Broken Government” special. This is the one John King reported on last night.
CHENEY: Right there, Wolf. ‘Broken Government.’ What kind of stance is that? Here we are. We are a country where we have been mightily challenged over the past six years. We’ve been through 9/11, we’ve been through Katrina. The president and the vice president inherited a recession. We are in a country where the economy is healthy. That’s not broken. This government has acted very well. We have tax cuts responsible for the healthy economy. We are a country that was attacked five years ago. We haven’t been attacked since. What this government has done is effective. That’s not broken government. So, you know, I shouldn’t let media bias surprise me, but I worked at CNN once. I watched a program last night.
WOLF: You worked on CROSSFIRE.
CHENEY: …And i was troubled.
WOLF: All right. Well that was probably the purpose, to get people to think. To get people to discuss these issues. Because —
CHENEY: Well, all right. Wolf, I’m here to talk about my book. But if you want to talk about distortion —
WOLF: We’ll talk about your book.
CHENEY: Right, but what is CNN doing? Running terrorist tape of terrorists shooting Americans. I mean, I thought [Rep.] Duncan Hunter asked you a very good question, and you didn’t answer it. Do you want us to win?
WOLF: The answer of course is we want the United States to win. We are Americans. There’s no doubt about that.
CHENEY: Then why are you running terrorist propaganda?
WOLF: Well all do respect, this is not terrorist propaganda.
CHENEY: Oh, wolf.
WOLF: This is reporting the news. Which is what we do, we are not partisan.
CHENEY: Where did you get the film?
WOLF: We got the film, look, this is an issue that has been widely discussed. This is an issue we reported on extensively. We make no apologies for showing that. That was a very carefully-considered decision why we did that. And I think, I think —
CHENEY: Well I think it’s shocking.
WOLF: If you are a serious journalist, you want to report the news. Sometimes the news is good, sometimes the news isn’t so good.
CHENEY: But wolf, there’s a difference between news and terrorist propaganda.
Cheney also took on Virginia senate challenger Jim Webb.
JIM WEBB: There’s nothing that’s been in in of my novels that in my view, hasn’t been either illuminating surroundings are defining a character or moving a plot. I’m a serious writer. I mean, we can go and read Lynne Cheney’s lesbian love scenes if you want to get graphic on stuff.
CHENEY: Jim Webb is full of baloney. I have never written anything sexually explicit. His novels are full of, um, sexual explicit reference to sex. Sexually explicit references to, well, I don’t want my grandchildren to turn on the television set. This morning Imus was reading from the novels. And it’s triple X-rated.
October 27, 2006 - 08:28 PM on October 27th, 2006
What exactly is “XXX”? I mean, is there also tamer sub-categories “XX” and simple single “X”?
Not exactly sure what she expected. She’s the wife of a sitting VP, two weeks prior to the most heated election climate I’ve ever seen for a mid-term election. Did you think she was going to get on Wolf’s show and simply be allowed to whore her book?
Wolf’s show isn’t Oprah’s book club, ya know. 
October 27, 2006 - 08:39 PM on October 27th, 2006
WOLF: This is reporting the news. Which is what we do, we are not partisan.
Uh-huh. Oh, yeah!!! And O.J. was innocent all along, executive management at Enron was completely honest, Clinton did not have sex with that woman, and WWF wrestling is real!
Right, wolfie…right…
October 27, 2006 - 08:51 PM on October 27th, 2006
1- He had her booked to talk about the book…I saw a very nice and informative interview on FOX…but I guess that is why FOX has double the viewers..They book guest and treat them with respect and don’t show the enemies propaganda!:roll:
October 27, 2006 - 08:52 PM on October 27th, 2006
2- I wonder how hard that was for him to say outloud:lol::lol:
October 27, 2006 - 09:07 PM on October 27th, 2006
3- “They book guest (sic) and treat them with respect”
Oh wow I’m falling out of my chair here!!! 
October 27, 2006 - 10:14 PM on October 27th, 2006
1.
To answer your question:
What exactly is “XXXâ€? I mean, is there also tamer sub-categories “XX”and simple single “Xâ€?
Yes, they are more tame categories. The are ratinging, just like G, PG and R. X is basically soft porn. XXX is anything goes.
October 27, 2006 - 11:27 PM on October 27th, 2006
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October 28, 2006 - 02:12 AM on October 28th, 2006
If CNN is so unbiased in its reporting, why is it so busy reporting only bad news but totally ignoring all of the good news coming out of Iraq? If they are so interested in us winning in Iraq, why don’t they show what is actually going on? They’re showing terrorist propaganda films, but they refuse to show US snipers nailing terrorists. They refuse to show the footage of the planes hitting the twin towers. They refuse to show the footage of the people jumping from the twin towers to avoid being burned alive. Of course this was also the network who broadcast Saddam’s propaganda while ignoring the real news in Iraq just so that they could claim they had a bureau in Baghdad. They even thought that doing this made them better journalists. Of course what should we expect from a network founded by the former spouse of Hanoi Jane?
October 28, 2006 - 11:30 AM on October 28th, 2006
New York Times Not biased? You Decide.
Seems Mr. Johnston disagrees and claims he reported fairly. I laugh because I rarely have seen any article in the NYT that has not shown bias, but you decide for yourself.
After reading my original post here, then read his response to me, then min…
August 9, 2007 - 10:15 PM on August 9th, 2007
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