Monday, May 10, 2021
THE WHITEWASHING OF LIZ CHENEY
What is with this preoccupation from the so-called ‘liberal’ media with Liz Cheney? Lately it seems, cable news channels MSNBC and CNN are lavishing endless hours of coverage to the rift between Cheney, a Republican congresswoman from Wyoming and daughter to former Vice President Dick Cheney, and the current GOP House leadership that’s loyal to Donald Trump. 
Cheney had the audacity to vote for the former president’s impeachment due to his role in instigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection earlier this year. In retaliation, Trumpian House leaders seek to strip Cheney of her powerful committee assignments.
As a result of all this insider politics, Liz Cheney has been elevated as the new courageous hero for the ‘resistance’ by becoming the emblem for the GOP they falsely assert it once was, fact-based and rational. While Liz Cheney appears willing to sacrifice her House career by calling out Trump’s lies, lest we forget, she continues to support her father’s lies that led to untold amounts of death, bloodshed, and torture in the disastrous Iraq War. Liz Cheney is about as right wing as they come. She’s a warmonger who’s never met a war or bloated defense budget she didn’t love as she’s to the right of Trump on foreign policy. She’s vigorously opposed both COVID-19 relief acts calling the first one “a real tragedy”, and has attacked even the mildest responses to gun violence as an assault on the Second Amendment.
Amnesia seems to have gripped much of the mainstream liberal media these days as pundits continue to revise the legacy of the Bush-Cheney crowd, including the former vice president’s daughter, in a sympathetic, yet erroneous, recollection. Frankly, I won’t lose any sleep if Liz Cheney loses her clout in Congress.
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I don't see how Liz Cheney is being elevated to a hero. Even in the video you cite, reporters are in no way lauding her for her actions. They are reporting a story that seems improbable. They note that Liz Cheney has a extensive voting record supporting Trump. It is a shocking story that none of that matters to Trump or to Republican Party leaders. It is getting so much exposure because it is so uncharacteristic of what happens in the halls of Congress.
ReplyDeleteI see it, especially on MSNBC. They don't come out and directly say she's a hero, but they strongly imply it. As an aside, I find it interesting that when Trump lashed out at her, he called her a 'warmonger'.
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