this is going to be a very short, sweet diary.
I could not find a proper diary to insert this gem into a comment without going totally off base.
So, I decided to write one of those annoying very short diaries.
I was reading an article linked to at New York Magazine about Darth's spawn, who I think is far more dangerous then her father. She is a cross between mom and dad. And Lynn had much to do with bringing out the dark and evil in Dick when they were young.
In the magazine's article, they write about something that gets under the skin of everyone left of hard right - why Liz Cheney is booked all the time on talk shows and allowed to spew her garbage and spew it unchallenged.
Here are the important paragraphs:
Liberal critics have been outraged that the TV networks give the Cheneys so much on-air real estate for their crusade. Fox is a regular pulpit, of course, but Liz is also all over NBC, where she happens to be social friends with Meet the Press host David Gregory (whose wife worked with Liz ’s husband at the law firm Latham & Watkins), family friends with Justice Department reporter Pete Williams (Dick Cheney’s press aide when he was secretary of Defense), and neighborhood friends with Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski, daughter of Carter-administration national-security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. When Mika criticized Dick Cheney on her show last year, the former vice-president sent her a box of chocolate cupcakes.
Lawrence O’Donnell, an MSNBC pundit who engaged in a particularly testy shouting match on Good Morning America with Liz Cheney over waterboarding, says the networks have allowed her a high degree of control over her appearances. "She had up to that point been completely accustomed to having interviews go her way and ceded on her terms," he observes. "She has been careful to make sure that the interviews worked that way."
And yet, connections aside, Liz Cheney is also remarkably effective as a television pundit, a right-wing messenger designed to infuriate the left, even her name a liberal bugaboo. She inspires hundreds of angry e-mails to MSNBC when she appears on its programs. Joe Scarborough, host of Morning Joe, told me he personally finds her "too shrill," but he’s impressed by her spine. "She doesn’t back away from unpopular positions," he says, "and she also doesn’t immediately swat away questions about whether death panels are contained in the health-care bill or Barack Obama was born in America. She gives absolutely no quarter."
The article talks about how Lynn Cheney went on MSNBC to refute the pronouncing of the last name by Chris Matthews.
Then the magazine write this about Liz:
But for Liz Cheney, it didn’t matter: "Chay-nee" isn’t just a name anymore, it’s a political brand.
So, the next time you gnash your teeth because the press seems to being sucking up to her just remember: They are. Not only sucking up but, are good friends with her.
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