from The Nation:
Aren't We Cheneyed Out Yet? posted by Laura Flanders on 03/12/2010 @ 11:42am
At what point do we call them the family of mass intimidation and simply stop playing into the Cheney clan's tired old terror tactics?
Liz is the latest. Cheney child number one made the headlines this week, with an innuendo-laced video questioning the loyalty of lawyers who represent Guantanamo detainees. "The Al Qaeda 7: Who are they?" Asks the voice on a video released by Cheney's supposedly nonprofit, non-partisan new hit squad. (They call it an advocacy group?)
Liz is playing from a battered old family play book. Shortly after September 11, it was her mother out there, accusing people of lack of patriotism. Lynne Cheney teamed up with Senator Joseph Lieberman to release a report which accused colleges and universities of being the "weak link in America's response" and naming 117 professors and students whom they called "short on patriotism" and "hostile to the US and western Civilization"
Watch:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/540286/aren_t_we_cheneyed_out_yetNot to be outdone by his women, barely a month has passed between 2001 and today in which Darth Vader patriarch Dick Cheney didn't accuse some Democrat or another of endangering the homeland. The former vice president's training in bait and snitch dates back to the 60s when when he spied on Students for A Democratic Society meetings, jotting down names for his then-boss Donald Rumsfeld in an attempt to cut government funding for public colleges. .........(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/540286/aren_t_we_cheneyed_out_yet