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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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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,"...

  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.  ...

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...

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...

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,...

Dads say the darnedest things about their kids during presidential debates. "I'm trying to put a leash on them," President Bush joked in a rare light moment during the first debate. "Well, I don't know. I've learned not to do that, Mr. President," Kerry responded with a smile, basking in the compliment the president had bestowed a few moments earlier. ("I admire the fact that he is a great dad," Bush had told Jim Lehrer.) The final debate ended with another round of mutual flattery about the candidates' good-guy parenting (on display in their Dr. Phil appearances, too). No old-style...

<p>Usually, nothing really new emerges from these ritualistic duals, but during the last Bush/Kerry debate, we got a real-time rare glimpse at what lies behind John Kerry’s Potemkin façade. These are the moments that make a debate truly worthwhile, as we watch hoping to see the man behind the talking points, prepared statements and usual spin. When John Kerry decided to speak for Mary Cheney, the curtain parted and we realized that Kerry does indeed have a very ugly portrait in his attic.</p>

Mary Cheney: Somewhere out there she exists, the actual Mary Cheney, child of the nondisclosed location, the one who's the luh-luh-lesbian. She's become this eternal and complicated mystery for people who are gay, and without ever really knowing her or hearing from her, they've spent four years writing poems, articles and protest songs about her. They've implored her with open letters in forums she may or may not ever read. They've waved signs with her name, started Web sites and put her on a milk carton as though she were a missing child. Oh, Mary Cheney, speak to us.

DALLAS — With friends like these, who needs Republicans? That's the lesson for gay and lesbian liberals now that John Kerry and his Democratic defenders have shown they'll say anything to win a close election, even if it means losing the moral high ground. During the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, a Republican senator from Oklahoma declared that he was outraged that people were outraged. Well, it's been a week since Kerry reprehensibly made a debate prop out of Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter, and I'm shocked that more Democrats — and more of the liberal media — aren't shocked. You...

Back when I studied anthropology in college, I had to determine the sex and race of skulls. What we did, as I recall, was go from table to table where, on each, was a skull of some dear fellow or gal who was making a contribution to science. Like Olivier in "Hamlet," I would hold up the skull ("alas, poor Yorick") and determine its sex and race. In absolute desperation, I concluded that one had belonged to a gay American Indian. To my utter surprise, the teacher said I was right. But I wasn't -- not exactly. The skull actually...