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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMay 2006: Mary Cheney refers to John Edwards as “total slime” during an interview with Diane Sawyer
The foul mouth of Mary Cheney
Posted by MICHAEL STICKINGS, Assistant Editor in At TMV.
May 11th, 2006 | 18 responses
AMERICAblog is reporting that Mary Cheney, daughter of Dick, called John Kerry a son of a bitch and referred to John Edwards as total slime during an interview with Diane Sawyer. She even mouthed something quite vile at Edwards during the 2004 vice presidential debate (actually, something her father had previously said to Patrick Leahy). She was apparently upset that they had referred to her sexual orientation.
As John puts it, though, the reason Kerry and Edwards mentioned Marys gayness is because George Bush decided to use gays as a, if not the, political issue of the 2004 elections. Absolutely right. Democrats arent united on the issue, say, of same-sex marriage, but they dont exploit it for political gain the way Republicans do. Just look at how Republicans use it to mobilize the more bigoted elements of their base. Its same-sex marriage, but its now also adoption.
All Mary Cheney shows is that profanity knows no bounds, including sexual orientation. But shouldnt she ask her father why his Rove-driven campaign mobilized bigotry in a battle for voter turnout? Shouldnt she ask her fathers alleged boss the same question? Shouldnt she ask her beloved Republican Party why it insists on bashing gays and lesbians, why it includes bigots in its ranks, why it now resorts to blatant homophobia whenever its political fortunes are threatened, why it intends to use this as yet another wedge issue going forward into this falls midterms?
Or would the answers hit a little too close to home?
http://themoderatevoice.com/6202/the-foul-mouth-of-mary-cheney/
Posted by MICHAEL STICKINGS, Assistant Editor in At TMV.
May 11th, 2006 | 18 responses
AMERICAblog is reporting that Mary Cheney, daughter of Dick, called John Kerry a son of a bitch and referred to John Edwards as total slime during an interview with Diane Sawyer. She even mouthed something quite vile at Edwards during the 2004 vice presidential debate (actually, something her father had previously said to Patrick Leahy). She was apparently upset that they had referred to her sexual orientation.
As John puts it, though, the reason Kerry and Edwards mentioned Marys gayness is because George Bush decided to use gays as a, if not the, political issue of the 2004 elections. Absolutely right. Democrats arent united on the issue, say, of same-sex marriage, but they dont exploit it for political gain the way Republicans do. Just look at how Republicans use it to mobilize the more bigoted elements of their base. Its same-sex marriage, but its now also adoption.
All Mary Cheney shows is that profanity knows no bounds, including sexual orientation. But shouldnt she ask her father why his Rove-driven campaign mobilized bigotry in a battle for voter turnout? Shouldnt she ask her fathers alleged boss the same question? Shouldnt she ask her beloved Republican Party why it insists on bashing gays and lesbians, why it includes bigots in its ranks, why it now resorts to blatant homophobia whenever its political fortunes are threatened, why it intends to use this as yet another wedge issue going forward into this falls midterms?
Or would the answers hit a little too close to home?
http://themoderatevoice.com/6202/the-foul-mouth-of-mary-cheney/
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May 2006: Mary Cheney refers to John Edwards as “total slime” during an interview with Diane Sawyer (Original Post)
Amerigo Vespucci
May 2012
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pnwmom
(108,925 posts)1. Sadly, it's hard to dispute that. n/t
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)2. What a sad state of affairs
I basically agree with a RWer bashing one of our own. I hope he fades into the background and just lives his life after this.
2pooped2pop
(5,420 posts)3. slime knows it's own kind n/t
lynne
(3,118 posts)4. OK, she got one right -
- even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)7. Probably the only time
that she has ever been correct. Or it could be that slime knows slime.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,085 posts)5. As messed up as Edwards' personal life was....
....what he did was microscopic potatoes compared to what Mary Cheney's dad and his cabal did to this country over 8 years.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)6. Oh, but having an affair if you're a Dem is FAR WORSE
on the Repuke Morality Index than killing thousands of people and sucking America's fortunes dry and reducing civil rights to just a "goddamn piece of paper."
And notice nobody talks about Schwarzenager (sp?) and his 10 year old love child AT ALL.
Hypocrite: Thy name is REPUBLICAN.
WI_DEM
(33,497 posts)8. well, I didn't agree with their strategy of talking about her sexual orientation either.
I don't think it won them many votes, either.