Why Is Liz Cheney On Teevee?

[babylonsister]

Well, not 'MY' teevee. Not on your life!


http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2010_05/023720.php

WHY IS LIZ CHENEY ON MY TEEVEE?.... Liz Cheney, who has no expertise in national security policy, continues to be given media platforms by outlets that prefer to pretend she knows what she's talking about.

Take this morning, for example, when Cheney condemned the Obama administration on "Fox News Sunday."

"When the administration captures a terrorist and their first instinct is to inform him that he's got the right to remain silent, that is exactly the wrong way to win this war.

Is that so.

Would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid was read his Miranda rights five minutes after being taken off a plane he tried to blow up. The same people who criticize the president today were silent back then.

I'm still waiting for Liz Cheney to explain why the Bush/Cheney administration had the wrong "instincts" and embraced "exactly the wrong way" to be effective on counter-terrorism.

As for the Shahzad case in particular, Liz Cheney continues to say things that aren't true. Factually, the administration's "first instinct" was to invoke a public safety exception to the Miranda process, delaying steps to make the suspect aware of his rights. Shahzad provided information before and after being Mirandized.

In other words, the Obama administration's approach was effective and successful. Why partisan hacks are whining about it now remains a separate question.

It appears that listening to Liz Cheney is exactly the wrong way to understand current events.

-Steve Benen

[Catshrink]

1. Mr. Noun, Verb, and 9/11 said the same thing.

They must have gotten the same talking points in their email this morning.

[CreatureFeature]

2. The level of hypocrisy exhibited by some of these people

makes me want to.......:puke:

[lunatica]

3. Shouldn't Liz and Dick Cheney be explaining how his meetings with Big Oil

set the Energy Policy of the Bush Administration?
They're just trying to make everyone's attention go to Obama because they're getting a little too scrutinized. They pretend to care about terrorists hurting Americans, but it's only self interest. They aren't fooling anyone, even those who they 'grace' with their interviews.

[Cha]

4. Ooops.

[Cha]

5. A lot of people continue to say things that are

"untrue"(as Pres Obama so politely says)..just look at their agendas and consider the source.

What if everyone told the truth? Those assholes wouldn't stand a chance.

[Submariner]

6. Because as a deferment baby conceived so her Daddy

could duck the Vietnam draft, she probably knows she was born as a "tool" to protect her cowardly father from having to put on a uniform and go into harm's way, and not as a love child like most children.

[AndyA]

7. Liz Cheney is a whore. A hack. She'll say what she's told to say.

Faux News is the propaganda network, the perfect place for her to sell herself.

Liz Cheney has NO CREDIBILITY

NO EXPERIENCE

NO EDUCATION

NO SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE

NO CREDENTIALS whatsoever that make her an expert on the things she discusses.

She's there because of her last name. Period. She's doing what she's told to do and that's it.

No REAL news source would use her as a person of authority on anything, other than perhaps how to use your family's last name to whore yourself out at every opportunity. George Bush could make a guest appearance on that one with her.

[styersc]

8. Have you ever noticed that both she and her father refuse to

sit up straight when they are on these shows. I assume they slouch as they view the main stream media to be beneath their application of simple etiquette.

[msongs]

9. because her old man is a terrorist so she has first hand knowledge about them lol nt

[givemebackmycountry]

10. Liz is a right wing idiot slit...

Can't we get her and her Mom and Five Deferments into a helicopter?
Stevie Ray Vaughan goes down in a helicopter and these slimy scumbags still walk the earth?
There is no such thing as fairness.

[Enthusiast]

11. The freak serial killer family!

She's just a regular old lying filthy Republican. If it was up to her and her Nazi father they would have honest citizens gassed.

Have you ever heard "I wouldn't piss on her if she was on fire."? That's how I feel about Liz Cheney (and the rest).

[tomm2thumbs]

12. I can't decide whether the word 'useless' or 'worthless' better suits Liz Cheney

I guess no word at all are about what she deserves

[Phx_Dem]

13. And why isn't she being questioned about her father's decision to

not require shut-off/acoustic switches on ALL off-shore drilling?

Norway finds a way to drill safely because they, along withd nearly every other country, require these emergency switches. But not us . . . nooooooooo. Because we, as a country, don't give a shit, apparently. And by "we" I mean Dick Fucking Cheney.

As far as I'm concerned, this oil spill is on him . . . lock, stock and leaking barrel.