http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/marycheney/ en-us Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:18:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752739/posts Cato the Elder famously dragged Carthage into every speech, calling for it to be destroyed. Like a modern-day Cato who has played the DVD of "An Inconvenient Truth" way too many times, The Boston Globe manages to drag global warming into an editorial this morning about, of all things, the baby that Mary Cheney is expecting. Writing of the decision of Cheney and Heather Poe to bring a child into the world, the Globe claims that: "Like any couple choosing to become parents, they must have concluded that the joy of raising a child outweighs the uncertainties of introducing it... Boston Globe/NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752739/posts#comment Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:18:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751409/posts Is there a more obvious product of heterosexual behavior than the creation of children? If so then isn't it somewhat peculiar that those who shun the behavior of heterosexuality so deeply crave the product that it brings? This week as I read the news that Mary Cheney, the 37 year old daughter of the Vice-President, was pregnant, I had many such questions running through my head. I'm not supposed to mind you. I'm not supposed to be allowed to think such things. I'm not supposed to openly wonder what such conclusions might mean. Such wondering might bash the belief structure... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1751409/posts#comment Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:01:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750850/posts My only regret about Mary Cheney's pregnancy is that it didn't happen earlier -- say, during the 2004 presidential race, when Cheney was working for her father's campaign and his running mate was busy trying to write discrimination against people like her into the Constitution. Imagine a hugely pregnant Mary Cheney sitting in the vice president's box at the convention. Imagine Cheney and her partner, Heather Poe, cuddling their newborn onstage at the victory celebration. How perfectly that would have illustrated the clanging disconnect between the Republican Party's outmoded intolerance and the benign reality of gay families today. washingtonpost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750850/posts#comment Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:20:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750811/posts Mary Cheney’s pregnancy poses problems not just for her child, but also for all Americans. Her action repudiates traditional values and sets an appalling example for young people at a time when father absence is the most pressing social problem facing the nation. With 37 percent of American children born to fatherless families, Mary Cheney is contributing to a trend that is detrimental to all Americans who will live with the ramifications of millions of children whose anger and frustration at not knowing their father will be felt in the public schools and communities of our nation. Mary Cheney is... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1750811/posts#comment Sat, 9 Dec 2006 04:31:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1749871/posts Mary Cheney’s pregnancy poses problems not just for her child, but also for all Americans. Her action repudiates traditional values and sets an appalling example for young people at a time when father absence is the most pressing social problem facing the nation. With 37 percent of American children born to fatherless families, Mary Cheney is contributing to a trend that is detrimental to all Americans who will live with the ramifications of millions of children whose anger and frustration at not knowing their father will be felt in the public schools and communities of our nation. Mary Cheney is... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1749871/posts#comment Thu, 7 Dec 2006 15:16:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1749648/posts I don't track Keith Olbermann's descents into mean-spirited bad taste systematically enough to definitively proclaim that he has charted a new low. Let's just say that he has once again indulged his proclivity to traffic for political purposes in the worst of ill-will.Readers will recall during that during the 2004 presidential campaign, both members of the Dem ticket went clumsily out of their way to alert voters to the fact that Dick and Lynne Cheney have a gay daughter, Mary. In that same mean spirit, on tonight's Countdown Olbermann acidly observed: "the Vice-President is about to become a grandfather for... MSNBC-Olbermann/NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1749648/posts#comment Thu, 7 Dec 2006 02:20:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1749328/posts Mary Cheney, the openly gay daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney and wife Lynne, is pregnant, according to a published report. Mary Cheney, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, 45, are "ecstatic" about the baby, due in late spring, The Washington Post reported in Wednesday's editions, quoting an unnamed source close to the couple. The vice president's other, older daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, is on leave as deputy assistant secretary of state after having her fifth child with her husband in July. There was no formal announcement of either daughter's pregnancy from the vice president's office, but the... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1749328/posts#comment Wed, 6 Dec 2006 17:18:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1749133/posts Mary Cheney, the vice president's openly gay daughter, is pregnant. She and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, are "ecstatic" about the baby, due in late spring, said a source close to the couple. It's a baby boom for grandparents Dick and Lynne Cheney: Their older daughter, Elizabeth, went on leave as deputy assistant secretary of state before having her fifth child in July. "The vice president and Mrs. Cheney are looking forward with eager anticipation to the arrival of their sixth grandchild," spokesman Lea Anne McBride said last night. Cheney, 37, was a key aide to her father... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1749133/posts#comment Wed, 6 Dec 2006 07:04:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1636105/posts I just finished Mary Cheney’s book Now It’s My Turn: A Daughter’s Chronicle of Political Life and recommend it as the most important book addressing a gay topic of the year, if not the past few years. Indeed, it is must-read book for anyone who wishes to talk honestly about the Bush Administration’s record on gay issues. While I will not, at this time, write a complete review of the book, I expect this to be a continuation in a series of posts on the significance of the book — and what it reveals about the Vice President of the... Gay Patriot http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1636105/posts#comment Mon, 22 May 2006 02:02:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1634380/posts Mary Cheney was just on NPR's Diane Rehm Show, promoting her new book "Now It's My Turn". She spanked Diane and the standard lib callers pretty darned good. Sounded like they just can't possibly fathom a conservative Republican gay person. She set them straight about her parent's investments going into a nonrevocable trust that goes to charity, about the 2004 election being about trust and national security and not about Republican misrepresentation, about her being a person speaking her own mind and not a glbt shrill, and other good stuff. She told a number of callers they were just wrong... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1634380/posts#comment Thu, 18 May 2006 15:13:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632217/posts The lesbian daughter of US Vice President Dick Cheney hit out at President George W. Bush's support for a constitutional amendment proscribing gay marriage. Mary Cheney, 37, told Fox News Sunday that the idea, which was backed strongly by Bush's Republican Party during his 2004 re-election campaign and continues to be promoted by many conservatives today, was "a bad piece of legislation". "I think that is what the federal marriage amendment is, it is writing discrimination into the constitution. "It is writing discrimination into the constitution and, as I say, it is fundamentally wrong." "I would also hope that no... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1632217/posts#comment Mon, 15 May 2006 00:03:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631983/posts The Talk Shows Sunday, May 14th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Laura Bush; author Mary Cheney; columnist Art Buchwald.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former House speaker Newt Gingrich. FACE THE NATION (CBS): White House national-security adviser Stephen Hadley; Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif. THIS WEEK (ABC): First lady Laura Bush; Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Joe Biden, D-Del.; actress Reese Witherspoon. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Hadley; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.; Abdul-Illah al-Khatib, Jordanian foreign minister. Various big media television networks http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631983/posts#comment Sun, 14 May 2006 11:56:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631788/posts Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 5/13 - 5/14 (not the live thread)The main message is the Sunday Shows.  Message 1 will be the Saturday Shows and message 2 will be the show guest links post.  Then I'll post the ping list.ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos) Meme: It's Mother's Day - they want the day off to be with Mom.Put Biden and Hagel on... it's autopilot time... we can phone this one in!We say that the NSA programs are all bad, therefore they're bad.  Don't listen to anyone else.See?  We're not being mean to (Laura) Bush, which means we're fair and... Network and Cable News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631788/posts#comment Sat, 13 May 2006 22:29:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631258/posts USA TODAY http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1631258/posts#comment Fri, 12 May 2006 19:41:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630107/posts John Edwards defended his decision to mention the sexual orientation of Vice President Dick Cheney's openly gay daughter in a 2004 debate, rejecting Mary Cheney's criticism in a newly released book. Attending a labor rally in New York on Wednesday, Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, was asked about Mary Cheney's comments about the 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee. In her book, "Now It's My Turn," Cheney called Edwards a "total slime" and argued that he tried to use her sexual orientation as a political tool against her father. She said she mouthed an expletive after Edwards praised the Cheney... Associated Press and Charlotte Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1630107/posts#comment Wed, 10 May 2006 22:25:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628830/posts She says she considered quitting her role as campaign adviser over the issue of gay marriage, but Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Mary Cheney tells ABC News "Primetime" anchor Diane Sawyer her sexuality has never created problems within her family. Mary Cheney discussed the campaign, her feelings about President Bush, life with her partner of 14 years, and what it was like to come out as gay to her parents. "I struggled with my decision to stay on the 2004 campaign," Cheney told "Primetime." Her personal challenge came when President Bush said the nation must defend the sanctity of marriage. ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1628830/posts#comment Mon, 8 May 2006 23:06:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1625478/posts New York, N.Y. – In her new memoir, NOW IT'S MY TURN(Simon & Schuster/Threshold Editions, 2006), Mary Cheney writes that when she told her parents she was gay, the first words out of her father’s mouth “were exactly the ones that I wanted to hear: ‘You’re my daughter, and I love you, and I just want you to be happy.’” VANITY FAIR editor Todd Purdum reports that Mary Cheney tells her story in a voice very much like her father’s, and that she came out to her parents when she was a junior in high school, on a day when,... Drudge Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1625478/posts#comment Tue, 2 May 2006 20:10:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620985/posts Who are you taking to the prom? Condoleezza Rice is going to be there with Drew Lachey , you know, Nick's brother? Mary Cheney is going to be there with Ludacris ! Yes, it's time again for another White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. Saturday's press prom at the Hilton Washington -- with President Bush and Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert -- will be packed with 2,600 of the usual Washington suspects and eye candy from the world of television, music and sports. "This is a great time of year, when the WHCA president manages to infuriate everyone he's ever known because... WashPost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1620985/posts#comment Tue, 25 Apr 2006 06:27:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509265/posts Time Warner's America Online has hired Mary Cheney, the daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, an AOL spokesman confirmed on Tuesday. Mary Cheney will work closely with Ted Leonsis, vice chairman of America Online and head of the unit whose function it is to increase AOL's Internet audience via Web-based programming and products, AOL spokesman Nicholas Graham said. While Graham said Mary Cheney will begin her new job "in the near future," he added that he could not say exactly when she would start, exactly what her title would be, or in which office she would be based. Leonsis works... http://news.com.com/AOL+hires+daughter+of+VP+Cheney/2100-1030_3-5914234.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1509265/posts#comment Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:53:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376201/posts April 2 - During the presidential campaign, Mary Matalin helped craft Dick Cheney’s potent words. Now, her new Simon & Schuster imprint will give voice to the rest of the conservative crowd, starting with the vice president’s daughter. Matalin will publish a memoir by Mary Cheney, whose homosexuality became an issue in the election, next year. NEWSWEEK’s Susannah Meadows talked to Matalin, the Republican pundit and wife of fiery Democratic strategist James Carville, about her new role as editor. Excerpts:NEWSWEEK: What else do you hope to publish?Mary Matalin: My particular interest is in foreign policy and national security, stories like... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376201/posts#comment Sat, 2 Apr 2005 20:45:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373267/posts FORMER CHENEY AIDE SIGNS CHENEY DAUGHTER TO BOOK DEAL **Exclusive** A former senior adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney has signed Cheney's daughter to a book deal, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. The curious and bold first acquisition of former Cheney adviser Mary Matalin in her new position at publisher SIMON & SCHUSTER is valued in the mid-six figures, top sources reveal. A top executive at VIACOM, parent of SIMON & SCHUSTER, who asked not to be named, was initally alarmed the deal would be seen as a "Thank You" from Matalin to the Cheneys. "It's so not the case,"... Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373267/posts#comment Tue, 29 Mar 2005 20:15:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346254/posts   NPR Badgers Lynne Cheney on DaughterIt didn't get much attention - probably because National Public Radio has so few listeners - but the taxpayer-funded network's Terry Gross recently tried to pull a John Kerry on second lady Lynne Cheney, by repeatedly hectoring her about her gay daughter Mary during a Feb. 9 interview. After saying she knew Mrs. Cheney didn't want to discuss her daughter's private life, Gross proceeded to do just that, peppering the second lady with one question after another about the proposed constitutional gay marriage amendment and its impact on parents of gay children.  ... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1346254/posts#comment Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:46:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1264346/posts All signs point to yes. During the past several months, the image has flickered into our homes with increasing regularity: Following the end of a campaign-trail speech, little Emma Claire Edwards, 6, and Jack Edwards, 4—both blond and cherubic—joyfully run up to the stage where their dad, Sen. John Edwards, 51, scoops them into his arms. Standing nearby beaming, always, is Elizabeth Edwards, 55. Do the math, and it's not hard to figure out that Edwards gave birth to Emma Claire at age 48 and Jack at 50. And yet if Edwards used her own eggs, this is all but... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1264346/posts#comment Mon, 1 Nov 2004 03:46:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255960/posts Vice President Cheney's straight daughter criticized John Kerry yesterday for mentioning her gay sister in his debate with President Bush but sided with the Democrat in his opposition to the President's effort to ban gay marriage. Elizabeth Cheney, an ex-Bush administration diplomat, was the latest Cheney to voice outrage at Kerry for bringing up her lesbian sister, Mary, during the third presidential debate Oct. 13. "I think we've all been pretty clear that we thought it was out of bounds. Mary was angry herself about it," Cheney told CBS' "Face the Nation." She said Kerry's citing Mary to answer whether... New York Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255960/posts#comment Mon, 25 Oct 2004 08:42:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255234/posts There are two huge myths in American politics. The first is that newsrooms play it down the middle. They don't favor Democrats over Republicans. Not them. The second is that Republicans are the "mean" party and Democrats the "nice" party. I've addressed the first myth more than once in the past, so today I will confine myself to the second: The truth is, if Republicans play mean, Democrats play meaner. I still remember Lloyd Bentsen's gratuitous insult of Dan Quayle in the 1998 Omaha debate. "Senator," Bentsen said, mockingly, "I knew Jack Kennedy ... and you're no Jack Kennedy." Well,... The Star (So. Chicago) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1255234/posts#comment Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:00:41 GMT