Lynne Cheney rips into C-SPAN's Steve Scully after interview

[conjur]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5457379/site/newsweek/

The Cheneys have been inadvertently amplifying the noise. Interviewing Dick and Lynne Cheney at the vice president's mansion, C-Span's Steve Scully asked, "What is it going to take for reporters to stop asking the question whether you are going to be on the ticket?" Cheney muttered, through barely open lips, "In the run-up to the convention, people don't have much to talk about, so you get speculation on that." He laconically added, "When we get to the convention, I think that'll put an end to it."

A suitably low-key, dismissive answer. But after the camera was turned off, Lynne Cheney, who had been forcefully interjecting herself throughout the interview, lit into Scully. She chastised the interviewer for questioning her husband's place on the ticket, according to a source who has spoken to the Cheneys. The outburst seemed uncalled for; Scully is about the most mild-mannered, nonconfrontational talk-show host in Washington. Asked about the incident by NEWSWEEK, Mary Matalin, the former White House aide who acts as an informal media and political adviser and part-time spinner for the Cheneys, explained that Mrs. Cheney was irked because the interview had been pitched by C-Span as an "at-home-with-the-Cheneys thing," not as a hard-news interview.

I watched that earlier today on C-SPAN.

They did not appear to be very relaxed. Everything they spoke seemed well-orchestrated. And, it was FAR from a "hard-news" interview as Mrs. Cheney termed it.


Watch the interview:
rtsp://cspanrm.fplive.net/cspan/project/c04/c04071404_cheney.rm

 

[NightCrawler]

I doubt the story.

 

[conjur]

Mary Matalin confirms it. Why do you doubt it?

 

[arsbanned]

I doubt the story.

WHy? These are the people who say "go fvck yourself to their political opponents. I don't doubt it one bit.

That old sack of skin cackling bag o' sh!t should start packing!

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Originally posted by: conjur
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5457379/site/newsweek/

The Cheneys have been inadvertently amplifying the noise. Interviewing Dick and Lynne Cheney at the vice president's mansion, C-Span's Steve Scully asked, "What is it going to take for reporters to stop asking the question whether you are going to be on the ticket?" Cheney muttered, through barely open lips, "In the run-up to the convention, people don't have much to talk about, so you get speculation on that." He laconically added, "When we get to the convention, I think that'll put an end to it."

A suitably low-key, dismissive answer. But after the camera was turned off, Lynne Cheney, who had been forcefully interjecting herself throughout the interview, lit into Scully. She chastised the interviewer for questioning her husband's place on the ticket, according to a source who has spoken to the Cheneys. The outburst seemed uncalled for; Scully is about the most mild-mannered, nonconfrontational talk-show host in Washington. Asked about the incident by NEWSWEEK, Mary Matalin, the former White House aide who acts as an informal media and political adviser and part-time spinner for the Cheneys, explained that Mrs. Cheney was irked because the interview had been pitched by C-Span as an "at-home-with-the-Cheneys thing," not as a hard-news interview.

I watched that earlier today on C-SPAN.

They did not appear to be very relaxed. Everything they spoke seemed well-orchestrated. And, it was FAR from a "hard-news" interview as Mrs. Cheney termed it.

Wow, I guess they are getting tired and tense with all the demands of a political campaign, but they will just have to get through it somehow, like any other politician.

 

[Gaard]

Originally posted by: NightCrawler
I doubt the story.

I'd also like to know why.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: NightCrawler
I doubt the story.

Mary Matalin confirms it. Why do you doubt it?

 

[bozack]

Originally posted by: conjur

Mary Matalin confirms it. Why do you doubt it?

get Lynne Cheney to confirm it and then we can talk, until then I also doubt the validity of this story.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: bozack

Originally posted by: conjur

Mary Matalin confirms it. Why do you doubt it?

get Lynne Cheney to confirm it and then we can talk, until then I also doubt the validity of this story.

You believe Ahmed Chalabi but not Mary Matalin.


Hmmmm....

 

[bozack]

Originally posted by: conjur
You believe Ahmed Chalabi but not Mary Matalin.


Hmmmm....

Until it comes from the "horses mouth" I am not buying it,...in the immortal words of Conjur...Link, Proof....give me a link that quotes Lynne Cheney admitting to this and then I will believe it.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: bozack

Originally posted by: conjur
You believe Ahmed Chalabi but not Mary Matalin.


Hmmmm....

Until it comes from the "horses mouth" I am not buying it,...in the immortal words of Conjur...Link, Proof....give me a link that quotes Lynne Cheney admitting to this and then I will believe it.

But yet you so willingly believed that Saddam had an active nuclear weapons program and had stockpiles of WMDs that were, according to Rumsfeld, "in the areas around Tikrit and Baghdad" but have yet to be found?

Your logic is a prime example of a dichotomy.