Mrs. Lynne V. Cheney Takes On CNN
From CNN’s “The Situation Room”
October 27, 2006
Mrs. 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.”
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “You are referring to the CNN ‘Broken Government’ special. This was the one John King reported on last night.”
Mrs. 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 a country where the economy is healthy. That’s not broken. This
government has acted very well. We have tax cuts that are responsible for our 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
…”
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “You worked in ‘Cross Fire.’”
Mrs. Cheney: “And I was troubled.”
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “All right. Well that was probably the purpose, to get people to think. To get people to discuss these
issues. Because – a lot of conservatives.”
Mrs. Cheney: “Well, all right. Wolf, I’m here to talk about my book. But if you want to talk about distortion …”
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “We’ll talk about your book.”
Mrs. Cheney: “Right, but what is CNN doing, running terrorist tape of terrorists shooting Americans? I mean, I thought Duncan
Hunter asked you a very good question, and you didn’t answer it. Do you want us to win?”
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “The answer of course is we want the United States to win. We are Americans. There’s no doubt about about
that. You think we want terrorists to win?”
Mrs. Cheney: “Then why are you running terrorist propaganda?”
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “Well all do respect, this is not terrorist propaganda.”
Mrs. Cheney: “Oh, Wolf.”
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “This is reporting the news, which is what we do, we’re not partisan.”
Mrs. Cheney: “Where did you get the film?”
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “We got the film, look, this is an issue that has been widely discussed. This is an issue that 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 …”
Mrs. Cheney: “Well I think it’s shocking.”
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer: “If you are a serious journalist, you want to report the news. Sometimes the news is good, sometimes the
news isn’t so good.”
Mrs. Cheney: “But Wolf, there’s a difference between news and terrorist propaganda.” |
