Cheney's "Defense Lawyer" Liz Cheney "Feeding Statements To His Preferred Media Conduit, Politico"

[kpete]

The Cheney Government in Exile
The former vice-president has a plan to ensure his legacy: the political future of his daughter Liz.


* By Joe Hagan
* Published Mar 7, 2010


Read more: How Dick Cheney Plans to Use His Daughter Liz's Political Future to Ensure His Legacy -- New York Magazine http://nymag.com/news/politics/64601/#ixzz0hdriSrtv


*****She has spent nearly every day since her father’s departure from the White House attempting to extricate him from the jaws of infamy by turning current events into a referendum on his policies. Casting herself as his defense lawyer, she has appeared on television 40-odd times in the last year. And she’s conducting the research for a Dick Cheney memoir, a book she persuaded her father to write.


*****When her father has something to say about Obama, the former vice-president takes a break from the book to prepare a political attack, feeding statements to his preferred media conduit, Politico.com

*****Fox is a regular pulpit, of course, but Liz is also all over NBC, where she happens to be social friends with Meet the Press host David Gregory (whose wife worked with Liz ’s husband at the law firm Latham & Watkins), family friends with Justice Department reporter Pete Williams (Dick Cheney’s press aide when he was secretary of Defense), and neighborhood friends with Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski, daughter of Carter-administration national-security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. When Mika criticized Dick Cheney on her show last year, the former vice-president sent her a box of chocolate cupcakes.

*****Lawrence O’Donnell, an MSNBC pundit who engaged in a particularly testy shouting match on Good Morning America with Liz Cheney over waterboarding, says the networks have allowed her a high degree of control over her appearances. “She had up to that point been completely accustomed to having interviews go her way and ceded on her terms,” he observes. “She has been careful to make sure that the interviews worked that way.”


more:
http://nymag.com/news/politics/64601/#ixzz0hcY1Iv87

[EFerrari]

1. Run, Missy Darth, run!

LOL

[tularetom]

2. That paragraph about her connections at NBC is amazing

That says more about what is wrong with this country than almost any single paragraph I've ever read.

You just cannot trust "news" outlets whose "reporters" are drinking buddies with the politicians they are supposed to cover. The incestuous relationships between members of the liberal media and republican politicians pretty much insures no coverage of those repubs will ever be anything but fawning.

Makes ya wanna puke.