Cowardly Wolf or Cowardly Cheney?
Satta Sarmah
Wolf Blitzer surely succeeded in "making news" with his interview of Vice President Dick Cheney on last night's Situation Room -- though, perhaps, not in the way the CNN anchor intended. Today, the story is as much about Blitzer as it is about the V.P.
After querying Cheney on hot button issues like the Iraq War, the Scooter Libby trial and Hillary Clinton's presidential run (Blitzer: "Do you think Hillary Clinton would make a good president?" Cheney: "No, I don't." Blitzer: "Why?" Cheney: "Because she's a Democrat..."), Blitzer wrapped up by asking Cheney how he felt about conservative groups like Focus on the Family who have criticized his daughter Mary's decision to have a child with her female partner. Cheney refused to respond to these critics, responding instead directly to Blitzer by telling him he was "out of line." Blitzer's seemingly startled replies included, "[Mary's] obviously a good daughter" and, "We like your daughters."
Not surprisingly, this Blitzer-Cheney confrontation has sparked some highly-charged chatter in the blogosphere. So, which man should be hanging his head in shame today? Depends who you ask.
To Seething Mom's mind, Cheney came off the coward. "When I saw this video clip of Wolf Blitzer asking the Vice President how he felt about groups like Focus on the Family's reaction to his daughter Mary Cheney's pregnancy, I actually got a little hopeful," Mom writes. "I mean c'mon, so many of these supposed 'family advocacy' groups wasted no time stepping up onto their bully pulpits to wave their fingers in righteous indignation at the horror of Mary's decision to start a family with the woman she loves. So I was kind of hoping that maybe, just maybe Dick Cheney would finally stand up, be a DAD and not a politician, and put these judgmental ninnies in their places, right there on national television for everyone to see. But alas, it was not to be. In fact, for playing such a tough guy on the political scene, Mr. Cheney's response was pretty damn chickensh*t and embarrassing."
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Wolf Blitzer surely succeeded in "making news" with his interview of Vice President Dick Cheney on last night's Situation Room -- though, perhaps, not in the way the CNN anchor intended. Today, the story is as much about Blitzer as it is about the V.P.After querying Cheney on hot button issues like the Iraq War, the Scooter Libby trial and Hillary Clinton's presidential run (Blitzer: "Do you think Hillary Clinton would make a good president?" Cheney: "No, I don't." Blitzer: "Why?" Cheney: "Because she's a Democrat..."), Blitzer wrapped up by asking Cheney how he felt about conservative groups like Focus on the Family who have criticized his daughter Mary's decision to have a child with her female partner. Cheney refused to respond to these critics, responding instead directly to Blitzer by telling him he was "out of line." Blitzer's seemingly startled replies included, "[Mary's] obviously a good daughter" and, "We like your daughters."
Not surprisingly, this Blitzer-Cheney confrontation has sparked some highly-charged chatter in the blogosphere. So, which man should be hanging his head in shame today? Depends who you ask.
To Seething Mom's mind, Cheney came off the coward. "When I saw this video clip of Wolf Blitzer asking the Vice President how he felt about groups like Focus on the Family's reaction to his daughter Mary Cheney's pregnancy, I actually got a little hopeful," Mom writes. "I mean c'mon, so many of these supposed 'family advocacy' groups wasted no time stepping up onto their bully pulpits to wave their fingers in righteous indignation at the horror of Mary's decision to start a family with the woman she loves. So I was kind of hoping that maybe, just maybe Dick Cheney would finally stand up, be a DAD and not a politician, and put these judgmental ninnies in their places, right there on national television for everyone to see. But alas, it was not to be. In fact, for playing such a tough guy on the political scene, Mr. Cheney's response was pretty damn chickensh*t and embarrassing."
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