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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:10 AM
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Mary Cheney: "I've got my cake and I'm eating it too. Proudly."



She strode onto the Late Show confidently, her face a more narrow carbon copy of her father's. She has the same arrogant mannerisms, the same grim set to the mouth, the identical habit of maintaining a completely expressionless face while the eyes dart around to assess who is "with us and who is against us."

And Mary Cheney has her father's penchant for insisting on being smart and All-American even when dead wrong and dangerous and self-centered.

From her answers to Dave's smooth, well-calculated questions, I assume I am to believe that there is nothing wrong with supporting a party full of people who hate you. There is no moral commandment or Constitutional mandate to stand up to people who build their political and religious careers by whipping up a frenzy against your kind.

How nice of Ms. Cheney to sum it all up for us so tidily. Of course, she has more money than Santa Claus now, she's set for life. Must be nice to understand and have compassion for your fellow gay and lesbian Americans.

We understand that your daddy will carry out your wishes if he outlives you. You'll die with the partner of your choice, or you'll receive benefits shoud your partner die first. Yeah, we all know your Daddy can suck a country dry and shoot people in the face and get away with it all, so no doubt your needs as a lesbian woman wil be met. Money and power and comfort are so sweet, aren't they?

That power and affluence surround you like an aura, Mary. But it's not an attractive one. It's the aura of the person who says. "I've got mine. Fuck the rest of you." There is nothing ethereal or divine or patriotic in that. Your demeanor and self-justification are as old and common as field weeds.

So don't tell me you let the Republicans demonize you, you let them call you deviant, you let Jerry Falwell blame you for 9/11, you let Repuke candidates all over America win votes by crying out for an end to any rights you might have as a gay person, you went along with all of this because in 2004, as Cheney's campaign manager, you thought his ticket would protect America better?

Sure. Well. Here's a big clue. If they could protect us, the WTC would still be standing, our borders and ports would be secure, millions of people would not have suffered along our Gulf Coast, and our National Guard would be home in their states, doing the jobs they were created to do.

For once in a Repuke's life, can't you just admit the truth? You like that power, Mary. I can see it in your eyes. You're safe. Must be nice.

But the rest of the gay and lesbian community is not safe, not secure and neither is our nation as a whole.


You went along with the assholes for your own sake. Stop selling your egotistical, self-centered blather as anything more than self preservation and gluttony.

You are no patriot.


In my opinion, Mary, you are a selfish coward.


But I guess it's your turn now.





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w13rd0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:13 AM
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1. She is certainly a measure...
...of the father of her caliber. Every bit as selfish and hateful and greedy. Gives me a pretty good indication of the kind of man her father is, and what he "cherishes" in life. So for the most part, the entire Cheney clan are a bunch of irredeemable gluttonous murderers that will do anything to advance their own power and wealth.
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movonne Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:26 AM
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10. Has Lynn Cheney been heard from?? I don't believe I have heard
anything from her vile mouth since her husband shot his friend in the face..
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katmondoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:28 AM
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13. and her mother too
I won't forget the meaness and the look on her mother's face (Lynn Cheney) when she was on every show demonizing Clinton. When I found out she was Cheney's wife I threw up in disgust.
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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:14 AM
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2. kicking for justice
nt
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:16 AM
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3. Power, hell. She likes the family war-machine blood money. Plenty.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:17 AM
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4. she is disgusting
the only way I can think of that people like her and her father can live with themselves is they truly lack a conscience
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:26 AM
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12. I won't advocate
that anyone kick her ass ;)

Thanks for all the rec's DU. I am going to go build a fence ( to keep horses in, not to keep anybody out lol)

Thanks for being here, DU
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Kikosexy2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 11:57 AM
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112. The Bushies and..
the Cheneys are the royal families of Satan's Kingdom....they can knock on heaven's door but they'll get no answer...It's Hell where they belong...
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:17 AM
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5. She was creepy. Spewing the same old shit about Iraq and the "25
million people who are NOW free......seems she's overlooking the persecution gays are now facing in post-Saddam Iraq.

Recommended.
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99Pancakes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 12:10 AM
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88. Remember this....
...the exceedingly wealthy, whether gay or not, are immune to what the vast majority of Americans are subject to every day. She can afford to be arrogant and heartless because she sits in a tower looking down on the the bulk of Americans who get their asses kicked every day because they can't buy their way through life like she can. This sorry Repug bitch sickens me....................
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:17 AM
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6. I hope she chokes on that cake.
Cowardice and hypocrisy seem to be a Cheney family tradition.
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:20 AM
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7. I love money. Ideals are for suckers. nt
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:19 PM
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47. So are ethics, morals,
good manners, truth tellers, high class, ect, ad in finitum.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:23 AM
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8. What's behind this Mary-on-all-channels-at-once PR Blitz?
Is she supposed to be the new face of the... ahem.. Bush Administration?
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Greeby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:24 AM
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9. You owe me a new monitor
:spray:
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Hugin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:26 AM
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11. They're trying to Kiss and Make up after trashing the gay during the last
election so they can proceed to trash Brown people in this one.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:25 PM
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52. We hate your kind!
But vote for us anyway!

:hi:
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:41 AM
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22. She wants to sell LOTS and LOTS of copies of her book.
There's no other reason she would appear on Letterman.
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tblue37 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 11:07 AM
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29. She has a book out. (eom)
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:15 PM
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44. She wants to be the face now...
this hypocrite wants to have her cake and eat it too. She can talk about her gayness and gay issues but no one else can, she is a mixture of her evil ass mother as well as the Dick!
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koopie57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:29 AM
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14. Thank you for putting all my thoughts and feelings
into words. I watched her last night and she was everything you said. David Letterman did a very good job at interviewing her in such as way so that all of her naturally ugly qualities came out, we got an honest glimpse into this spawn of satan. He was very respectful to a person who did not deserve it. What a very ugly person she is.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:14 PM
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43. You're welcome
and thank you to all the DUers who took the time to read my rant.

She IS ugly!

:hi:
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fooj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 04:13 PM
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60. Ugly is as ugly does.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:30 AM
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15. And she has probably convinced herself that she's HELPED her gay
brothers and sisters.

MC, even us straights see right through you. Just sell your book and STFU.

K&R.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:45 AM
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24. Nonsense. She's wholly and completely dedicated to EXPLOITATION.
She's a member of the "top 0.1%" and the "bottom 95%" are nothing more than domesticated animals to be milked, shorn, and eaten - mere beasts of burden like the slaves on antebellum plantations. From her perspective, she has NOTHING in common with the animals. We, and all of Creation, are merely here to serve the Divine Rights of Wealth.

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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:22 PM
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48. Agreed
She is a little Antoinette.

Playing like she "cares about the security of Americans" over all else justs chaps my ass. She cares about her OWN security.

This country's "regular folk" can rot as far as she and her daddy care.
That's why I felt the need to write this morning - to counter any of this "Oh, Mary's just a nice gal" shit they're trying to sell us now.

She's not nice. And she has betrayed every gay and lesbian person in this nation just for $$$$ and money.


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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 12:37 PM
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108. I continue to be uncomfortable of the idea of 'betrayal' of GLBT interests
I personally do NOT subscribe to the notion that lesbians have some special obligation to be loyal to the interests of lesbians or females to the interests of females ... no more than I believe males have some particular obligation to be loyal to the interests of males or whites to the interests of whites. To me, that merely lends a seeming moral legitimacy to advocacy of self-interest over common interests.

Mary Cheney is no more nor less an ethical maggot due to her sexual orientation than anyone else. The idea that her sexual orientation makes her stances even more reprehensible is, imho, a form of bigotry. I do NOT accept the notion that I have some lesser moral duty to be an advocate of the common interests of us all, including people of color, females, and gays, merely because I'm a white, straight male. When I take a stand against gender bigotry discrimination, I'm not "betraying" my gender when it's about females any more than I'm being a "loyal" misogynist (a common bigotry on DU) when it's about males.

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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 08:39 AM
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101. Like so:
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Kajsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:30 AM
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16. I missed it, last night.
And I can't find a link to Mary's interview on Dave's website.

I remember there was a link to his interview with O'Reilly a while back.

Argghh- if anyone finds a link, please let me know.

Thanks.
:-)

PS. Mary is just like her obnoxious, self-centered father.
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, eh?
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:32 AM
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17. She understands fully that such 'issues' are mere TOOLS for
Edited on Sat May-20-06 10:34 AM by TahitiNut
... manipulating the masses and rousing the rabble. The wealthy elite are ABOVE such concerns. What need have they for 'rights' when they have the entitlements that wealth and the 'best government their money can buy' working for them?

It's a fundamental error to think that the wealthy power elite hate gays or are racists. They couldn't care less - no more than a jogger has 'hate' for the ants he trods upon while prancing forth listening to his iPod. From Mary's perspective, she has no more in common with 'ordinary' lesbians than the plantation owner has in common with the slaves. They're lesser animals - domesticated beasts of burden.

Racism, sexism, and homophobia are TOOLS for the manipulation of the body politic - political whips and chains to enslave labor in the creation of ever greater wealth for the wealthy!

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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:34 AM
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18. are you scared?


......But I guess it's your turn now.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:51 AM
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25. What do you mean here
I AM obtuse this morning. Once I pull on my muck boots...

What should I be scared of?

" Your turn now" refers to the title of her book. Except she's only taking her turn justifying herself...She says the book is "her turn to have an opinion about herself since Kerry and the Democrats had an opinion."

The fact that she claims some outrage that Kerry said she was a lesbian. Was that a lie? Is there something wrong with being a lesbian? If he'd said she was a Republican, would that be an insult? ;)

Kerry had all sorts of lies spread about him in the cruelest, ugliest ways imaginable. And Kerry states the facts and he is a terrible person? How silly! A fact is not an opinion. It's a fact. If you're ashamed of the facts about yourself, Mary, stay in the closet.
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blossomstar Donating Member (772 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 09:24 PM
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79. Bravo!!! Great post! How very well said! Thank you.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 11:04 PM
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86. ?? Sorry, don't get your point
Whose fear? Whose turn?
:shrug:
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 12:44 AM
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91. Kinda cryptic, wasn't it?
Thanks for being a bit confused by that post - as I was. :shrug:
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Jade Fox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:37 AM
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19. Has Mary Cheney spoken before any gay orgs?
My guess is no. If she does not, her hypocrisy is complete. She will in effect be saying she doesn't care what other gay people think of her.

I bet she doesn't sell many books. I can't imagine many gay people will want one, and the Republican base doesn't buy books written by open homosexuals. She is a woman without a country.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 11:33 AM
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30. Yes, she has
and yes it is. Mary was the gay/lesbian liason to Coors.

This is a good essay from the WaPo in 2004 about Mary:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43375-2004Oct18.html

"Lesbian, lesbian, lesbian. (Do you have to keep saying lesbian?) This is all she may ever be, at least in the history books. Before she became a public enigma, she used to earn a nice living as a corporate liaison for Coors Brewing Co., going into gay bars (sometimes with Mr. International Leather 1999, who would wear his chaps and straps, according to the Advocate) to convince everyone that Coors had changed. For a long time, gay people were implored by activists to boycott Coors, based on its funding of anti-gay causes. Mary got in there, talked about Coors's new domestic-partner benefits for employees. Mary said, here, try a Coors. She was good at that, and the boycott wafted away, and you didn't see as much Bud Light in gay bars."

She sucks. That's why the manufactured indignation when K/E mentioned her sexuality was so nauseating. She was already quite out.
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ruggerson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:37 AM
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20. she's a miserable person
and the house she is renovating with her partner is being paid for off of the suffering of millions of gay and lesbian families.

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NEOBuckeye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 11:34 PM
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87. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, it seems.
As long as the Cheneys get what they want, everyone else can go f*ck themselves.
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Frustratedlady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:39 AM
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21. Great piece.
I have watched 30 seconds or so of that little twerp and that was as much as I could stomach. She does remind me of her father, but she also has too much of her mother to make up for it. Translated, she has the ability to be a hateful bitch.
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mtnsnake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:44 AM
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23. Awesome. She's such a hypocrite for waiting until her daddy was safe
Chaney had a chance to use her direct influence in 2004 to do some good for the rights of homosexuals and she did nothing when it mattered the most. As Letterman showed last night, she had her turn and she blew it.
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:51 AM
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26. Excellent commentary.
Thanks a lot.

These vile people make me sick.
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2QT2BSTR8 Donating Member (320 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 09:59 PM
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81. tabasco - I am surprised you would make such a comment
I and my life partner of 8 years are 2 of THOSE PEOPLE. I am truly offended if you meant that in the essence that it felt like. What have we ever done to hurt you? We are just ordinary people just like you. Read the scientific studies, they prove that our life style is not a choice. Do you think we would CHOOSE to be beat up, raped, strangled, stabbed, mugged, mutilate, or otherwise defaced or degraded by people like YOUR kind? I guess so!
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2QT2BSTR8 Donating Member (320 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:03 PM
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83. Now if I misread you - then I apologize.
Just remember that by saying those people, you are painting with a very wide brush stroke.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 12:37 AM
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90. I'm pretty sure tabasco
was talking about the Cheneys ;)
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SeveneightyWhoa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 10:14 AM
Response to Reply #81
105. Clearly you forgot where you are.
This is DU, not FR.
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 12:23 PM
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106. Of course I mean hypocritical republicans. n/t
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agincourt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:56 AM
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27. Once again ,conservative promo and exposure
The smirking sow ripped into Kerry and Edwards so the honchos put her on the Late Show. She has done nothing to warrent any media exposure, except being the spoiled brat of another corrupt crimminal American family. May already and the national media go into campaign mode for the repigs. Geeez, what a propaganda machine, of all the people they could have had as a guest, they picked that whining tiarraed spoiled brat.
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jasmeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:58 AM
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28. I watched her on Dave last night and I just wanted to punch her
in the face. She is a useless human being. It makes me sick to see someone as delusional as her. Hopefully no other lesbians will date her! It seemed like alot of the audience agreed with her. She must've had "the 29%" flown in.
:puke: :eyes: :wtf: :argh: :hurts:
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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:18 PM
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45. same thing I was thinking while I was watching ,,,
about the 29 percent of the audience
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smtpgirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 06:30 PM
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66. While she was talking to Letterman, she made statements
and then paused to look at the audience, as if it was the audience's cue to clap.

Make a statement, look at the audience, audience claps on cue, OH what a great interview.

BLECCH

Mary Cheney sucks
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 11:40 AM
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31. So well put
Here was my opinion when I saw the first stop on the media train -- Diane Sawyer.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1105818&mesg_id=1105865

She sucks. K&R
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:12 PM
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42. Great minds think alike...you got the same impression I got
I'm not gay. And I'm not "agressively heterosexual" either - as Mary described her sister being - I think what adults do is adults' business.

I do have friends and family who are homosexual and I am sick to death of people using them to prop themselves up. This administration has allowed the GLBT community to be ripped to shreds by preachers and politicians, who have made them scapegoats of all sorts of evil.

Not one of them needs to stand before me and claim some empathy for the GLBT community now.






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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:06 PM
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32. And where would Mary Cheney be if she wasn't connected?
She has a famous (infamous) father and has rode that pony all the way to to the top of the neo-con food chain. What would Mary Cheney be if she was merely another face in the crowd? How would Mary Cheney feel if she was just another Lesbian, subject to the prejudices of people like her father and every other right-wing-nut she professes to admire?

Mary Cheney has always had it easy. Her future, even as a Lesbian, has been cleared and smoothed every inch of the way. The neo-cons would NEVER give her a hard time, her Daddy would have their asses.

Yes, Mary.......it's very easy to judge from the top. It's too bad you did nothing to get there other than choosing your parents well. :eyes:

What a sickening human being. :puke:
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trixie Donating Member (696 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:08 PM
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33. She is the epitome of "self-loathing" or money over everything else.
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6000eliot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:14 PM
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34. I didn't watch.
I don't care what she has to say. And I hope no one in the gay press legimates her claim to being a gay activist. She's like Jews for Hitler.
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Sparkle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:14 PM
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35. Great post!
Is Mary a modern day Uncle Tom?
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gristy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:15 PM
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36. Does anyone know where I can find a video clip?
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Strathos Donating Member (713 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 12:26 PM
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37. Uncle Tom
Or is that Aunt Tom, or Aunt Butch Tom? And that's all I have to say about that.
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checks-n-balances Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 01:22 PM
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38. Aunt Tom - LOL and ROFL!!
You just made my day!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Seriously, will somebody find us all a clip of this
Letterman episode?
Pretty please!?!?
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Strathos Donating Member (713 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 09:08 PM
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77. COOL eom
.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 03:52 AM
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95. Check Crooks and Liars.
www.crooksandliars.com
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young_at_heart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 01:40 PM
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39. Mary Cheney comes across as a selfish woman
I wonder how many support her stand and I wonder how many will buy her book?
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:00 PM
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40. seen this?
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:24 PM
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49. Cute!
Sums up the false outrage quite comically!


:P
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Gabi Hayes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:28 PM
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53. this is the way the dems should fight all the BS, made-up 'wedge'
Edited on Sat May-20-06 02:30 PM by Gabi Hayes
issues these skunks come up with all the time

ridicule them to death

if they'd done to Bush what the pugs did to Gore in 2000, NObody would've voted for that slug, and they couldn't have come anywhere near close enough to steal it

I imagined a dem campaign back then that consisted SOLELY of clips of Bush attempting to speak

dems are VERY bad campaigners, which means they're NOT students of Edward Bernays, Goebbels, Deaver, Nofziger, etal. they should have at least learned by now how to recognize and combat techniques like the ones developed/employed by that lot
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 03:49 PM
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56. We would win if we played it the way they do
but then we'd be scum-sucking bottom feeders, too.

They have taken the rope and hung themselves, truly. Just like many of us predicted.

I, for one, am overjoyed that the overwhelming majority of Americans dissapprove of this cabal in charge.

Imagine these kinds of numbers a year ago! They have shown their true colors and they can't go back now and pretend to be nice people or caring people. Their greed has been front and center all along.

And 70% of my fellow Americans stand beside me in their dislike for this administration. That's a lot of pissed off people.


:)
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 04:11 PM
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59. Excellent!
Welcome to the world of "good words mean bad things when Democrats say them"

Fucking Republicans - your days are numbered you selfish bastards.
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happydreams Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:10 PM
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41. An analogy and a question
What would it would be knowing you were Darth Vader's offspring. At least Luke and Leia (sp) grew up not knowing. :scary:
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enid602 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:19 PM
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46. Mary
She's quickly becoming the Joe Lieberman of the GLTB crowd.
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rosesaylavee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:25 PM
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51. Yes, she is.. only worse as she has no need for pretense
to be anything other self-serving. Joe has to at least pretend he is working for the common good.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:24 PM
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50. So how many people are
going to buy the book from the self centered big liar?

Did Dave just take everything she said as facts?
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 04:23 PM
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62. If you have not watched Letterman
in the last year or two, you would not know how much he "dislikes" the whole * administration.

Almost every night, he shows skits or makes jokes about them. One of his latest is... (something to the effect of) "great speeches by American presidents".

It begins w/FDR's "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

2nd up is Kennedy's....." Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

Then on to *'s.... "blah, blah, blah.... he he... uh.......er.."

Last night he was a gentleman, as is his usual self. Yet it got in many a zinger, like asking if she's ever felt buckshot to the back of her head.

The main point is was trying to get across was, why din't she speak up and/or write the book BEFORE the 2004 election, when it could have helped so many in the gay community. No matter how hard he tried, she kept going back to rw talking points.

It made the reason for her book coming out now transparent.

In addition, in his monologue - before she came out- almost every sentence contained the word, LESBIAN.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 06:13 PM
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65. I have seen him and loved
it when he eviscerated bo'liely.

That's why I didn't see him taking this rolling over..thank you so much for that detailed account, Pastiche!

"In addition, in his monologue - before she came out- almost every sentence contained the word, LESBIAN."

That's funny when you know the backstory!


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Habibi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:31 PM
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54. Aaaand, her book isn't garnering raves on Amazon
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 02:34 PM
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55. Everybody needs to send her a nice cake.
I'm thinking a yellow cake, hmmmmm? (Why not get in two insults at the same time?) :rofl:
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Mr_Spock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 04:08 PM
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57. "I've got mine. Fuck the rest of you." - the Republican motto of self
Republicans are so selfish, so insular & without compassion.

This nation would be dead in 20 years if the Republicans took their "live for today" & "live and let die" selfishness to the extents that they would like to.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 04:10 PM
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58. What an oxygen thief! nt
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LuckyLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 04:21 PM
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61. Shouldn't we be recoiling in horror that her "gayness" was
discussed on national television? My gawd, John Kerry brought it up and he was trashed from sea to shining sea for bringing up the issue in a debate. You hypocrite, Mary. I'm surprised you have one gay friend left in this world -- who could support such hypocrisy?
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Divine Discontent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 06:33 PM
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67. exactly!
"how GROSSS!!!! A nasty lesbian!!!! on a nationally televised talk show too! barf...


those licking lesbo freaks need to stay in the gym where they belong..."



THAT basically sums up about how 90% of the people that voted for her loving "defender of the gays" father, feels about the gay, lesbian, Trans crowd...


I kinda dig that for it being so incorrect... ** DICK "Defender of the Gays" CHENEY **
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LuckyLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 08:24 PM
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73. Yep -- it's so loopy it's funny. Like everything else about this
administration, it's turned on itself into a theater of the absurd.
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NanceGreggs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 04:41 PM
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63. Well-written and insightful!
Allow me to add another K & R!
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 05:49 PM
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64. Excellent post!
:thumbsup:
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Hekate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 07:18 PM
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68. WELL SAID, buddyholly's! Most excellently sliced and diced!
Edited on Sat May-20-06 07:23 PM by Hekate
Your take on her appearance on Letterman (and elsewhere) is incisive, to say the least.

edited to add: What kind of self-hating girlfriend would ever put up with her?

Hekate

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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 07:22 PM
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69. Yea but...were being attacked by terrists.
Im skeered. Who someone balls is not important when you have terrists coming and books to sell.

Its all about the alqaedas and selling books. Hope yer skeered too. If not , you aint American. Yer prolly one of those alqaedas.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 07:24 PM
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70. I can't believe Letterman would allow these people on his show.
Personally, I'd tell her she isn't welcomed. I'm sure there were studio heads that made sure she was on that stage. But I sure would be very clear that I'm not welcoming her.

I didn't see the interview. How was Letterman? I'm sure he made his feelings known.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 05:20 AM
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96. Let's put it this way...
after the interview, coming back from commercial break he said, "Well, if my phone wasn't being tapped before..."
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 08:14 PM
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71. The (h)error apparent.
You all do realize that Mary Cheney is the next generation Robber Baron?
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rpgamerd00d Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 08:15 PM
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72. Her girlfriend is named "Cake"? What an odd name.
Oh, wait, nevermind...

:D
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 07:41 AM
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98. it was a typo - should have been
she has her KATE and EDITH too
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 10:10 AM
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104. Nice one
:thumbsup:
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Raine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 08:34 PM
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74. People like Mary are the scum of the Earth
if she was black she would probably defend slavery. x(
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 08:20 AM
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100. If she was a rhesus monkey, she'd defend vivisection
Hmmm. this has the makings of a contest....
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 01:16 PM
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109. I have a problem with that meme. See ...
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Synnical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 08:34 PM
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75. Wow, you just rocked my socks off of me
Well stated!

K&R
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kdpeters Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 08:35 PM
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76. Having trouble figuring out what's supposed to be interesting about her
Why should I read, much less buy, this book? Other than be the gay daughter of Dick Cheney, what has she DONE?

Almost quit the Bush re-election campaign? Now THERE'S a profile in courage. *cough* *cough*

Seriously, though. What the hell has she done? I've read the reviews and heard the interviews. I promise -- I've looked for some angle that might save this effort from being anything other than a child of privilege trying to cash in on her father's notoriety before the opportunity passes by. Judging from her own interviews, it doesn't seem she has much to say except "I'm Dick Cheney's gay daughter. Buy my book."

Sorry, babe. I'm not interested in your pedigree. Do something to make the world a better place, then write your book. I promise you, the reward will be personal and the success will follow.
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 09:15 PM
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78. When you're rich as hell and your pappy holds power, it doesn't matter
She's a lesbian hidden away inside the mega-millions her father has extorted through his crimes. She's protected, unlike most lesbians who have to get out there and earn a real living. I think of her like a Clarence Thomas, doing nothing for his own, siding with the group that harms his own, and thinking nothing is wrong with it, because, after all, he lives so well and he's black. Mary Cheney is like that. She says, "Look, I'm living great, and as far as I'm concerned, if I'm living well, the world is fair, whether or not it is." She is definitely like her father, a scumbucket.

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Kingshakabobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 09:41 PM
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80. Fantastic! k&r n/t
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:02 PM
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82. K&R
As the old saying goes, "You said a mouthful".
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antigone382 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:32 PM
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84. Still dodging thunderstorms here
but wanted to say thanks to everyone who helped put this on the homepage.

DU rocks.

Signing off before we fry the modem :hi:
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-20-06 10:49 PM
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85. Not as catchy as "Let them eat cake", but might inspire the same reaction.
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Tsiyu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 12:30 AM
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89. I am humbled and honored
to have so many recs and to be on the Homepage :blush:


Thanks DU :loveya:
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 01:00 AM
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92. Did you catch what Dave said after the interview
and Cheney had left? Something to the effect:
"Well, if the NSA hadn't been listening in on my phone calls before..."

Probably more true than he realizes.
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Catrina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 02:47 AM
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93. Why isn't she in Iraq? It's thoroughly sickening to listen to these
war profiteers spewing out nonsense about how great it is in Iraq now that her lying father and his neocon cabal have killed probably hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children. Someone give that woman a uniform!

She's nothing but a shameless corporate welfare queen, just like her father, another thief feeding at the trough of this country's treasury and treasure.

That she has the nerve to go on national television to once again, attempt to make money off the very people she and her ilk desise, is infuriating.

These people are low-life thrash ~ money, especially stolen money, doesn't change that one bit. I would like to see the American people take back their money from these thieves.

I've never seen her but I know she's ugly. That kind of inner ugliness is usually apparent, as it is in her father ~

They intend to drag up the wedge issues again, after all the old formula succeeded so well last time. But I for one intend to stay lazer focused on only the election, and on the daily reports of Republican indictments and convictions. There's absolutely no point in discussing gay marriage, abortion, national healthcare until this regime is safely out of office.

I doubt she impressed anyone ~ but Richard Melon Scaiffe will buy up her books I'm sure. Or we'll see it on Newsmax (now that would be something) for $1.00 soon.

They can never just do something for the sake of doing it. Her phoney 'I'm doing this because of that nasty Kerry', won't impress many people.

Will they talk about this in freeperville?
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coyote Donating Member (900 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 03:24 AM
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94. You can find the VIDEO here:
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 06:32 AM
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97. "Cake".... is that what they're calling it these days!
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 07:49 AM
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99. what i don`t understand is why anyone thought
she was any different from her old man. she was a whore for the coors family. her work there was to make them hundreds of millions of dollars by selling beer to the homosexual community and i`m sure she was paid quite well for doing so.

she never was a spokeswoman for the gay and lesbian community, so i`m not sure why anyone would care anything about this 50 million dollar daddies girl
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 09:13 AM
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102. I had a gay friend in college who told
That the rainbow sticker meant that they were good people.

I stand by my claim to her that just because someone was open about their sexuality it has no reflection on the content of their character.
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 09:18 AM
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103. Mary does look like she likes that extra slice of cake...
I have pity for her that she's still a Repug, even though it's in her worst interest to do so. OK, when Daddy takes a dirt nap, she'll bet a lot of blood money...so...yawn...whatever....

:shrug:

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thoughttheater Donating Member (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 12:28 PM
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107. Mary Mary Mercenary
To see a visual depiction that summarizes the actions of Mary Cheney...link here:

www.thoughttheater.com
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NuttyFluffers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-21-06 08:54 PM
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111. i pray that she gets sat on by a big bull dyke
and then beaten to a pulp with canes by other lesbians.

or, in a just world, she'd have a greivous asphyxiation accident when making her next big batch of bread pudding. suffers brain damage choking on a rum raisin or something.

can't we all bust out our toasters and chuck them at her as she walks by? pretty please?
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wvspaz Donating Member (6 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-22-06 12:00 PM
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113. here, here, ditto
here, here, ditto.
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