All posts tagged "Mary Cheney"

Oh, pooh.

Columnist and author Dan Savage lambasted both Liz and Mary Cheney during an interview with Real Time host Bill Maher on Friday, noting the irony of their arch Republican father Dick Cheney being thrust into the middle of their dispute.

Little noticed Matt Lewis, who writes for Tucker Carlson's George Zimmerman Fan-Fic website, has been a conservative writer on the intertubes for years during which he has never expressed an opinion that wasn't carefully modulated in such a way that he couldn't land a job working for Fred Hiatt or maybe a guest-spot op-ed in hotel cartoon newspaper USA Today. While  Red State's Erick Erick Erick Son Of Erick Erickson's Son has been dishing out meth-crusted red meat to the slavering yahoo hordes and landing himself gigs at CNN and Fox, all Lewis has ever had to offer is a jelly jar of tepid tap water which gets him a coveted spot at Bloggingheads, which is internet TV for people who have lost the will to live.

Thanks to Sir Charles for pointing me to this hilarious spaz of an op-ed by Kathleen Parker. If you really want to understand the wingnut mind, you have to really, truly understand that male power over women's bodies is a holy principle to them, second only to the love of pissing off liberals. (By the way, thanks to AJ Kandy for tweeting me this link suggesting that the love of angering other people for no good reason has been measured, and related to hormone levels, though I'm cautious about making causal claims.) You really see it on Pam's post about the Freeper reaction to Mary Cheney's pregnancy---this visceral anger about pregnancy existing outside of their own model of it as a man's conquest of a female body and demonstration of his virility upon that body. The cock is all-powerful in the wingnut imagination, and suggestions to the contrary are rejected angrily. Even when those suggestions to the contrary aren't actually made with any strong feminist intent---I imagine Mary Cheney and her partner simply want another child---it's spun as some childish rejection of male authority and control.

And another Republican will shoot from the womb (via TrueSlant)...