and it's reserved for hypocritical psychotics like Cheney...

What an SOB...

I believe it's "Focus On The Family" that's out of line.... Plus, Wolf simply asked Dick to comment on a belief commonly held by right-wing nuts and most of the Republican Party. In fact, CNN could have chosen MANY more slanderous comments made by Focus On The Family, Concerned Women For America, etc.

This proves just how much of a SPINELESS ASSHOLE Cheney is. Instead of standing up and speaking his mind, he'd rather throw his family under the bus, pander to his base and then shoot the messenger.

What an absolute and total monster he is.

And the answer was, "No." Cheney was just being polite when he offered any other response.

Then, when Wolf Blitzer prefaced the next question with, "Well, it has come up," my response would be, well, yes, Wolf, I knew that "it had come up" in Rahm Emanuel's last war council, and it came up in a CNN meeting, but I just can't comment on those things. If you want any other commentary from me, Wolf, I guess I say that this story blows up the myth that the Republican party is filled with, and dominated by, the kind of red-faced, Bible-beating caricatures that Republicans are routinely made out to be in media outlets like CNN and Salon.com. You got any other questions, Wolf?"

Wolf, it has come up that Anderson Cooper may be a homosexual. Do you have any comment on that?

Oh God, am I actually about to defend Cheney?

I'll start by saying that Wolf wasn't wronge for asking the question. But Cheney has a right not to comment on something this personal in nature.

I can't blame him for wanting to say as little about this as possible. Its obviously a no-win for him. He couldn't support the quote from a prominent part of the republican base without insulting his daughter and he could condemn it without the evangelical dogging him for it incessantly for the rest of his public life.

Sure, he's a hypocrite on the subject. Sure he's protecting himself from the monster his party has fed steroids to for several decades. But simply for the sake of his daughter, the less light on this subject the better.

Of course he could have just said that we wasn't going to comment and left out the "out of line" part, but he's a mean bastard, so what do you expect?

but it seems little sensationalistic to me to characterize Cheney's response as barking, or to make his response in this clip the basis for cogent arguments about his hypocrisy. Blitzer asked a mildly provocative question, Cheney declined to reply in a terse tone, and there doesn't seem to be much more to it. Surely there's already ample--and better--evidence that Cheney's a complete asshole, and more and better evidence that his sparse comments on his daughter's sexual orientation are politically motivated, that even the rarity of such comments is politically motivated. Same asshole, different day. I'd be much more interested in seeing his response to, say, an indictment or two (or a dozen).

The question was out of line of course. It's a Bush/ Rove/ Cheney tactic, doesn't mean that everyone should get into the mud. The intent was to get Cheney to go off because the insiders know that he is a madman. By he way, why isn't he running for President? Too many buried bodies under the garage.

"Surely there's already ample--and better--evidence that Cheney's a complete asshole"

Oh yeah, big time.

that Blitzer missed the obvious response - if I'm out of line, what are you saying about Focus on the Family!

Welll at least this video clip is one more bit of documented, searchable info which helps people learn just how much of an insufferable dick Cheney is.

Some day twelve years from now my son will be in the sixth grade writing a research paper about presidents, and clips like this will show up in his bibliography (or internetogaphy or whatever they'll be calling it). Unless of course we get a couple more Republican presidents, in which case the Department of Information Security will have digitally remastered Cheney's personality so that he's warm and cordial and then sent all the You Tube webmasters to a gulag.

Cheney may be a massive hypocrite to consider it "out of line" to discuss his daughter's homosexuality after his party has done nothing but treat every homosexual in America as a whipping post to rally the base. But, in all honesty, my vitriol with this clip stems from another spineless caving on the part of the media. Why is the MSM such cowards in the face of this administration? Why is the only person who will speak truth to power not 6 feet away from the president, Colbert, not even a real journalist? It wasn't just the administration who wanted a softball choice for the entertainment at this year's WH Correspondants Dinner, it was the the cowardly correspondants themselves!

I don't rely on politicians to avoid hypocracy; I rely on the media to point it out. But apparently that's too much to ask these days. Fourth Estate indeed.

Always the fan of any Cheney baiting, I turned to Video Dog with great expectation only to be sadly disapointed. That was a bark? That was tension? Goodness, you must live a protected life.

John

I'm not actually surprised at the Voodoo Priest's reaction.

I sure as hell wouldn't comment about what Focus on the Family thought about the circumstances surrounding the birth of my child or grandchild for that matter. Having said that, the irony of having been Ghunga-Din for this whack job organization and now having a grandchild born of a same-sex couple(which the aforementioned organization would just as soon destroy)is not lost on anyone. I'm sure Focus on the Family wouldn't mind if the little zygote were terminated. I guess that whole pro-life thing doesn't apply to lesbian couples who want to give birth naturally, does it? I suppose the rights of this fetus don't matter as much as the rights of a straight couple's fetus, do they?

While Focus on the Family would call all this the very stench of abomination rising before God, they seem to completely overlook the depravity of the Cheney family who seem to have one standard for themselves, and something entirely different for everyone else. The very bigotry he expects a pass on for his family he would see enshrined into law for everyone else. He can spill the blood of other people's children, but he has "other priorites" for himself when it was his turn to serve. He can have a grandchild born of a gay couple but he would rather see other gay couples and gay people marginalized at best. And finally when it comes to responsiblity for this awful war we're in, he blames the media, the Democrats, the "liberal agenda", everyone else but himself. This man is Vice President of the United States. I haven't stopped being terrified of this man's version of "morality"since he and the Shrub took office in 2001. The fact that he actually has grandchildren gives me nightmares.