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- nodong, on 10/12/2007, -5/+82@xGORDOx
Bringing up Cheney's children in this particular situation is entirely relevant and appropriate. He supports policies and legislation that demean and dehumanize his own daughter, as well as the children of millions of other people. Calling politicians out on their lack of personal integrity is what journalists have a duty to do. - jewdiknight, on 10/12/2007, -13/+65This is great. I may not be a big fan of Bush, but won't call myself a hater, I just think he is really misguided. But Cheney on the other hand just seems pure evil. From the way he moves and acts and his lack of telling the truth is just horrible. You just know that he is either working for Satan or quite possibly Satan himself. I pray that Bush does not get assassinated just for the fact that we can not let Satan be president.
- b612, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45best line
"how dare you apply my parties inhumane and cruel family policies to my family"
classic - marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40This is Stewart at his best.
- TheoDork, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Full segment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8LjkI7VZGw
- heaintheavy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35So here is my question to you, then. This administration and party has made it a point to go out of its way and make sure that its decisions and policies effect gay people, their children and families. And here is the VP, with a gay daughter, who is trying to live the dream like so many other gay people in this country by raising a child. So where do you draw the line by what is and what isn't "off limits"? His party's decisions effect my gay friends AND his own daughter. Myself, and others want him to atone for this hypocrisy.
This isn't a matter of some show asking if a president's daughter is hot or not, this is a purely political matter and it effects hundreds of thousands of people in this country. It is a completely appropriate question.
It's not like Blitzer was asking Bush how he feels, as a recovering alcoholic, when his daughters are photographed drunk and out of control in South America. - Br0wn, on 10/12/2007, -20/+47"Really misguided" hmm polite way to put all those soldier's deaths.
- baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -9/+34Gordo,
you are an idiot. - damndj, on 10/12/2007, -8/+30*****
- nodong, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Politics shouldn't be polite. People's lives and dignity are at stake.
- heaintheavy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22So, let's set the Wayback Machine to the year 2000, Sherman...
In a VP debate, Cheney made it clear he respects gay marriage. He said: "The fact of the matter is we live in a free society," said Cheney, "and freedom means freedom for everybody. We don't get to choose, and shouldn't be able to choose and say, 'You get to live free, but you don't.' And I think that means that people should be free to enter into any kind of relationship they want to enter into."
Amazing isn't it? And ever since that point, he hasn't said squat. Here was a perfect time for him to reaffirm these values, but he doesn't. Why? It is because he doesn't believe in them and never has believed in them. Wolf's question was completely appropriate given his president's and party's stance on the issue. - gaoshan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Well Cleotis, if he DOES eat moose ***** I'm sure it is prepared Szechuan style over rice with a rich chili sauce and accompanied by a bottle of quality pinot noir.
You, on the other hand, undoubtedly prefer to eat it raw and still attached. - ElectroOverlord, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21"And I think it is pretty tasteless to use his daughter as some sort of bait for an argument."
But it is perfectly OK to use other peoples children as bait? Terry Shivo, 3067 sons and daughters of Americans in Iraq, 50,000 Iraqis.... - jackhole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Showing unconditional love for his daughter would entail standing up for her rights and criticizing the administration's policies that negatively affect her.
Or by "unconditional love" did you mean "barely masked shame"? - baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16@ damndj
thats ludicrous. how dare you insinuate that about my mother. i challenge you to a duel - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 08/11/2008, -0/+15He is being mocked because he's the worst example of a thoroughly morally bankrupt man. I don't give a rat's ass about his daughter and neither do any of you. It's just a smokescreen "magician's left hand" issue to keep us from discussing the real point of op-ed pieces like this:
So what I DO care about is the fact that this scumbag's cooking of the intelligence books has cost thousands of American servicemen their lives, tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians their lives, and our entire nation TRILLIONS of dollars just to manufacturer a never-ending war of perpetual fear in order to generate never-ending profits for the people who bought and paid for his political office. This treasonous criminal and his cronies have been screwing us over for thirty years - all in the name of corporate graft. And we keep taking it. - UglieJosh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15You couldn't be more wrong, damndj.
- heaintheavy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17So then you feel that Bush and Cheney shouldn't have to answer questions based on the views of their party? Give me a break.
- PDelahanty, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19@xGordox
Chelsea was a teen.
Mary Cheney is not.
There's a gigantic difference. - Bleeblaow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Wow, you're smart.
- BaxterK, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Cheney and his party like to bring up other people's sexuality, in terms of politics, but it just hurts to much to ponder their own. Very funny clip.
- calvmari, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"Just because you have the force, doesn't mean you have to use it every time!"
lol - calbff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12@damndj
I think you're on the right track, but I wouldn't use the blowtorch OR the anal beads, and would instead just punt the bitch through the living room window. - baxtermaddux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11umm. no. it would just make your analogy a bad one
- arcangelgabriel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Morons are everywhere, fortunately we have a ban button.
- yidali, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11I'll have to disagree, John Oliver is pretty amazing.
- Brickster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9When he signed up to be Bush's running mate...
- heaintheavy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9**Your argument does not follow. Cheney does not have to reaffirm his values. Should I have to get up everyday and tell people, "Hey, I'm still pro-choice."**
Uh, if you were the VP of the United States and agreed to be interviewed on CNN and the person conducting the interview asked a question about your stance on abortion, then, yes, you would have to reaffirm your stance. - EddT81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9REally? WHOA!
- ElectroOverlord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Brainwashing is coercive persuasion. How are you being coerced?
Talent: A gift: for example being great at presentation.
Obvious = Brainwashing?
I am having trouble following your gifted talent for spelling and logic! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9o'rly? Thanks for the info. I never would have known this without your insightful guidance.
- superalamar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7how is his spelling?
- heaintheavy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7At least he is brainwashing us and not water boarding us...
- ElectroOverlord, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Thank you for elevating the level of discussion. Now go get your ***** shine box before you get out of your league again.
- PlackSlayer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Thank you for that quote. I was looking for the exact words and couldn't find them fast enough. Finally a comment here on the point of the video!
America is being run by genitals, what else can we be but screwed. Dick and Bush for impeachment '07! - johnbenclark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@sanman
Mmm, where have I heard that idea before..
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seperate_but_equal )
This is almost exactly the same. The view is that there is something wrong with people and they will tarnish marriage. This idea is founded on the same demeaning thoughts as other forms of segregation. (This is unlike different bathrooms for different genders which comes from modesty, not feelings of superiority/inferiority.) - b612, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5does anyone else think you are a nerd?
- superpixel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I saw Cheney speak at my college when Clinton was prez. His topic? War. He complained bitterly and at length about how Clinton came in, streamlined the federal beauracracy-- he said it "is there for a reason." He wouldn't stop talking about how we needed more military, in more places, to police the world. I'm not kidding, I have the audio tape. No, I'm not posting it because it's buried in the garage and I have better things to do. But yeah, the guy's evil.
- PeteLP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Dick Cheney shows unconditional love of his daughter, shows a more liberal aspect of his beliefs even though he's a Republican, and is mocked for it."
@IgnatiusJReilly
Cheney is not being mocked for his love of his daughter or for moderate views. He's being mocked for his unwillingness to comment on those views. He could quite easily have said
"I simply disagree with the family council on that point. (that only the marriage of a man and a woman deserves children)" He'd have gained respect from many, left to right, if he had. But he didn't. (Many true conservatives are also opposed to the agenda of the religious right.)
Stewart obviously and COMPLETELY supports the daughter's marriage and family rights. Cheney's nasty REFUSAL to do so is the issue here. This is a real issue, much more so than Chelsea's babe ranking. - jackhole, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I don't think the segment was supposed to be canonical.
- ElectroOverlord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Marriage is not a "any kind of relationship they want to enter into" relationship?
I see a directly hypocritical stance between his personal and party beliefs. I personally think that excluding people in love from marriage is more harmful to marriage that excludes people based on a bigoted religious control. - b612, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If cheney doesn't agree with the party line on this issue then why didn't he just say that. It was a fair question because that is all he had to say.
- benijuana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Its true that children should be off-limits, but i think it would be wrong to just simply ignore the hypocrisy that the most powerful man in a very gay-unfriendly administration has a pregnant lesbian daughter. Like Stewart said, is Cheney just simply exempt? If he's going to outlaw gay families, he should be prepared to apply the law to his own bloodline.
- Jaq524, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4RTFA, damndj, come on. If you had, you'd know that didn't happen.
- actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@ Bleeblaow
So it's okay for the government to pass judgement on my family structure, but not okay for me to ask questions about theirs? - ElectroOverlord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dick says "our administration does not waterboard...we supply water to some of the residents in a arid region. "
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Exactly! There must be 99 persons who think like a supermarket tabloid, for every one who thinks like Newsweek!
Emotionally immature people who constantly react to trigger words such as: gay marriage, abortion, homosexuality, pedophilia, terrorist, bombings, jews, muslims, christianity (all which have been successfully charged with all manner of emotional gunpowder through propaganda and misinformation) create such a cacophony of meaningless noise and pointless discussion, to drown out the very real issues that affect us all, much more directly: Health Care, Employment, Education, Culture, Family and Friends.
I want to shout those meaningful words as loud as I can to silence the other empty hateful words that have gained far too much significance for no good reason. - Kirpernicus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Go ***** yourself, Dick!
- Hermitwise, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3That just made me think about a prequel that shows Sauron's early life, as a little boy who's a terrible actor.
- benijuana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yah, john oliver gets better every time he does a segment. when he first joined the show he was so depserate for airtime that he refused to get his broken nose (remember that episode?) set for fear that the swelling and black eyes would put him out of commission. I don't think he understood at the time that he's probably the best correspondent with the show right now, and that stewart would (most likely) have gladly waited.
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