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Liz: Like father like son--err, daughter. http://tinyurl.com/yzx9ubv 25 days ago |
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Liz Cheney Slams Obama For Visiting Dover AFB - With Cameras http://bit.ly/3HclsZ 28 days ago |
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Liz Cheney slams Obama for going to AFB http://tinyurl.com/yzx9ubv 30 days ago |
You Knew This Was Coming
Talking Points Memo —
... Liz Cheney says George W. Bush showed more class than Barack Obama when he honored fallen troops -- because Bush didn't bring cameras along with him when he never went to Dover AFB. ...
Big Fibbin'
Talking Points Memo —
... But I'm not sure I remember her fibbing on quite this scale before. But when Liz Cheney attacked President Obama for his visit to Dover Air Force Base to greet and honor the bodies of American servicemen killed in action in Afghanistan, she claimed that President Bush routinely did the same thing -- only without cameras. Yet, there's no evidence Bush ever did this. Not even once. Cameras or no cameras. Reporters who covered Obama and Bush say Obama's the first to have done this. ...
President honors troops, right attacks president
Political Animal —
... -- National Review 's Peter Hegseth, for example, called it "a classy move." A blog called Right Wing Nut House added, "[T]he emotion that animated [Obama's] face during this solemn, heart rending ceremony showed that he understands his responsibilities." Some right-wing voices were far less gracious . Liz Cheney called out President Obama for his early-morning trip to honor fallen soldiers arriving at Dover Air Force Base yesterday, suggesting President Bush honored America's heroes with a bit more class than his successor. Cheney, on Fox News Radio's John Gibson Show ...
Liz Cheney - 'nuff said
Daily Kos —
Is anyone surprised that Liz Cheney would find fault with Barack Obama honoring soldiers killed in action? "I think that what President Bush used to do is do it without the cameras. No, what Bush and Liz's daddy, Dick "Five Deferments" Cheney used to do was to pretend the thousands of caskets that arrived at Dover Air Force base didn't exist. ...
Liz Cheney Spins Dover
BAGnewsNotes —
... Bush made a presidency (and, frankly, helped make this site) out of his military photo ops -- co-opting the living, the injured and family members of the dead. And now, Cheney wants to spin his black-out on Dover and coffins as some kind of modesty or respect -- rather than a cynical, stonewalling, reality-denying strategy to prevent Americans from intimately feeling the ultimate cost of his elective war? ...
Liz Cheney: Obama Should Not Have Gone to Dover
The Moderate Voice —
... Here is her response, via TPMDC:
“I think that what President Bush used to do is do it without the cameras. And I don’t understand sort of showing up with the White House Press Pool with photographers and asking family members if you can take pictures. That’s really hard for me to get my head around…It was a surprising way for the president to choose to do this.”
Pres. Bush didn’t used to do it at all, as TPM’s reporter points out: ...
Lawrence O'Donnell Slams Liz Cheney For Criticizing Obama's Trip To Honor Fallen Soldiers (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... to Dover Air Force Base to honor the returning war dead. Cheney, speaking on Fox News Radio's "John Gibson Show" Thursday, suggested that Obama had made the visit simply for the publicity. Regarding her appearance on the radio show, O'Donnell noted, "she wasn't going to let the facts get in her way." ...
Sunday Talk - A Picture's Worth
Daily Kos —
President Obama took some time off from palling around with terrorists and swinging his dick around to be photographed at the repatriation ceremony for fallen US soldiers this week. But he wasn't the only one paying respect to America's heroes. In the House of Representatives, separate resolutions were introduced to honor the ACORN crackers and the 1.7 million 9/12 teabaggers. Developing...
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Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for November 5, 2009
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
... stand up and shout out" are strategies designed to stop America's Healthcare Reform! Never mind that 45,000 uninsured Americans die each year because they can't afford health insurance, never mind those numbers include children. Dick Armey doesn't give a damn, he wants to maintain the status quo! Ah yes, the Repuglicans, even the retired Repuglicans know how to be mean and nasty, rude and crude, a**h***s!!! * * * Well now, this apple didn't fall very far from the tree -- she can lie as well if not better than Daddy Dick ! In typical Repuglican fashion, in an effort to debase ...
Huckabee Shies Away From Criticizing Limbaugh, Citing Fear Of His Big Microphone
Think Progress —
Last month, President Obama visited Dover Air Force Base to honor 18 soldiers killed in Afghanistan. One family allowed the media to photograph the return of their fallen member. Soon after, the right wing went straight into attack mode. “It was a photo op precisely because he’s having big-time trouble on this whole Afghanistan dithering situation,” hate radio host Rush Limbaugh said.
But Mike Huckabee took a different tack, calling the right-wing attacks “deplorable.” “I think it was the ...
