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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (482755)	5/22/2009 1:10:51 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574882

Ted, > Dick Cheney is getting a free ride because he's entertaining and its a slow news week. Free ride? It's obvious the media is taking Obama's side in the matter. Of course they're playing up the Cheney vs. Obama angle as if this were a WWE steel cage match, but we all know who's being treated as the "babyface" and the "heel" (to use pro-wrestling jargon). If the media is taking Obama's side, why is every other article about Cheney? The media should be ignoring him. They are not.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (482755)	5/22/2009 1:56:06 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574882

It seems to me the media is bending over backward to accommodate the Cheneys and their ideological message. NEPOTISM REIGNS.... Mid-day yesterday, I noticed that Mark Halperin had a headline that read, "Round 2: Liz Cheney vs Axe." Round 1, apparently, was President Obama and former Vice President Cheney, and Round 2's "Axe" refers to David Axelrod, Senior White House Advisor to the president. Halperin added, "The two surrogates weigh in on the Cheney vs. Obama debate shortly after their speeches in MSNBC interviews. Must-see video...." Notice the problem? Liz Cheney was brought on to offer analysis of her own father's speech, and parrot her dad's criticism of the president. (What a surprise -- she found her dad's argument very persuasive.) What's more, as part of a full-throated defense of her dad's torture policies, Liz Cheney has been all over the television news. I asked my friends at Media Matters to check on just how many interviews Cheney has done lately. They came up with this list that spans the last 10 days (and today isn't over yet): * On the May 22 edition of ABC's "Good Morning America" * On the May 22 edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" * On the May 22 edition of CNN's "American Morning" * On the May 21 edition of CNN's "AC360" * On the May 21 edition of Fox News' "Hannity" * On the May 21 edition of "MSNBC News Live" * On the May 20 edition of Fox News' "Your World" * On the May 17 edition of ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" * On the May 16 edition of Fox News' "Fox & Friends Saturday" * On the May 15 edition of Fox News' "On the Record" * On the May 12 edition of Fox News' "Live Desk" * On the May 12 edition of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" That's 12 appearances, in nine and a half days, spanning four networks. (On today's "Morning Joe," Liz Cheney was on for an entire hour -- effectively becoming a co-host of the program.) And this is just television, and doesn't include Liz Cheney's interviews on radio or with print media. There's no modern precedent for such a ridiculous arrangement. Dick Cheney launches a crusade against the White House, and major outlets look for analysis from Cheney's daughter? Who everyone already realizes agrees with everything he says about torture? This is just crazy.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (482755)	5/22/2009 2:00:00 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574882

NO ONE SHOULD BE MEAN TO CHENEY.... Once in a while, during his briefings, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs will get in little digs at the administration's detractors, with varying degrees of sarcasm. Opinions will vary, but his sense of humor tends to work for me. What's interesting, though, is that some members of the press corps seem taken aback when Gibbs fails to show deference to Dick Cheney. One of the odder things we've seen from some members of the White House press corps this year is a kind of zealous over-protectiveness of the previous administration -- Dick Cheney, in particular. [...] [During yesterday's] briefing, another reporter (I'm not sure who) attacked Gibbs again for being mean to Cheney. The reporter said Gibbs had taken a "swipe" at Cheney. What was the swipe? Earlier in the briefing, Gibbs had responded to Cheney's attack by puckishly saying he had a lot of time on his hands. That was the swipe. This is just weird. It is, indeed. Dick Cheney has been waging a crusade to undermine public confidence in the White House, dropping any pretense of institutional and/or historic norms. Indeed, the former vice president had just wrapped up a ridiculous and spectacularly dishonest tirade against the president. Gibbs makes a subtle dig about Cheney having nothing else to do with his time, and some reporters think Gibbs ought to show Cheney more respect? This isn't the first time. In March, after one of the former VP's other petty attacks, Gibbs joked, "I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy. So they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal." ABC, CBS, and MSNBC all expressed their disappointment that the press secretary would take such a disrespectful tone towards Cheney. To be sure, there are lines that shouldn't be crossed. If Gibbs started leveling personal attacks against Cheney from the briefing room podium, I could understand some pushback. But Cheney is on a crusade against the White House. Why can't the press secretary give as good as he gets? Cheney is a big boy. I think he can handle it. If these reporters were at least as concerned about the former vice president's dishonesty as they were about Gibbs being mean to him, the coverage would probably be better. washingtonmonthly.com