Ex-Sen. Alan Simpson Tells His Side Of The Lynne Cheney Blowup

[DonViejo]

CATHERINE THOMPSON – SEPTEMBER 26, 2013, 9:37 AM EDT

Former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-WY) told his side of a recent heated encounter with Lynne Cheney to the Casper Star-Tribune this week, confirming that the former vice president's wife told him to "shut up."

“She just said, ‘Shut up,’” Simpson told the newspaper during an interview on Tuesday. “You can just read into it what you want to. I don’t know what she meant. She was very intense.”

Simpson's daughter-in-law, Deb Oakley Simpson, wrote on her Facebook page Saturday that Cheney confronted Simpson at a fundraiser in Cody, Wyo. over his support for Sen. Mike Enzi (R-WY). Enzi is facing a primary challenge from Cheney's daughter, Liz Cheney, and the Facebook post suggested the confrontation was about the race.

But the former senator told the newspaper the dispute stemmed from an interaction a few weeks earlier at an fundraiser in Laramie, Wyo. Liz Cheney's daughter asked Simpson to sign a football at that event, a request he said he declined out of concern the football would be used for campaign purposes.

Lynne Cheney described a similar interaction in a statement emailed from her daughter's campaign to the Star-Tribune....

full article:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/former-wyoming-senator-lynne-cheney-told-me-to-shut-up

[louis-t]

1. The Cheneys are ugly, ugly people.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. As awful as her husband is, and yes, he is evil,

[see, e.g., http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/], Lynne Cheney is every bit as evil and as mean and nasty as she can be.

Look back, for example, at the controversy she manufactured - out of whole cloth - about the National History Standards in 1994. http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/n/nash-history.html

Had it not been for Lynne's pushing him, Dick would probably have ended up as no more than a "lineman for the county" and the whole world would likely have been a better place. http://www.truth-out.org/archive/item/71788:dick-cheneys-psychology--part-2-the-attendant-lord

She is definitely the person who created Darth Dick. I almost - but not quite - pity their children/grandchildren. But Liz seems to be a very much a clone of her mother and keeps inserting herself into the national dialogue/national politics, so I cannot find much empathy for her.

[yellowcanine]

3. I don't know who to believe on this one but I tend to go with Simpson rather than Lynne Cheney.

Lynne says it is about Simpson not signing a football for her daughter which was to be used for a cancer charity fundraiser. If true, that looks bad for Simpson. However, given that Simpson has some class, unlike either Dick or Lynne Cheney, my guess is that the football signing was not presented to Simpson that way or he would have signed it.

[Sunlei]

4. both dumbass political idiots, only loser is the Cancer charity!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Mr. Burns should've released the hounds on her. nt