‘Hero to the liberals’ Liz Cheney ‘corrects’ Lesley Stahl, says waterboarding ‘not torture’ in CBS interview
“I was wrong. I was wrong.” says Rep Liz Cheney about condemning same-sex marriage in 2013, a position that caused a split with her sister Mary, who is married to a woman. Rep Cheney says the sisters are now reconciled. “I love my sister very much.” https://t.co/EwRrkWDcT8pic.twitter.com/KEdlqibZoJ
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) September 26, 2021
What gained less traction among accounts of verified Twitter users was the part when Stahl noted that it was “kinda funny” that many liberals saw Cheney as a “hero to the liberals,” despite her overwhelmingly conservative convictions.
Nearly every Republican including Cheney embraced Trump before Jan. 6. He was calling the election into question for months before Nov. 3. https://t.co/nYz4sQBLOf
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) September 27, 2021
In the quick exchange that followed, the lawmaker confirmed that she remained anti-abortion (or rather “pro-life” as she framed it), pro-guns, against Obamacare, and pro-waterboarding, which she insisted is “not torture,” contrary to Stahl’s description.
STAHL: You’re anti-abortion.CHENEY: I'm pro-life, yes... STAHL: You're pro-gun rights. And you voted to repeal Obamacare. Do you regret that vote?CHENEY: I do not. No.STAHL: Waterboarding, aka torture.CHENEY: Well, it’s not torture. https://t.co/HEEF66y64k
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) September 26, 2021
Torture of terror suspects, termed “enchanced interrogation techniques”, was one of the hallmarks of the Bush era, with Vice President Cheney being one of the architects. President Barack Obama later admitted that the US “tortured some folks”, but refused to hold anyone accountable for it.
It’s hardly surprising for a lifetime conservative like Cheney to condone brutality in the name of national security. In the interview, she said she liked most of Trump’s policies, could stomach his “bad character” and went against him only after his refusal to concede the election to Joe Biden and the January 6 riot at Capitol Hill.
Cheney’s current elevation to hero status by the US Left is “demented” and can only be explaned by the fixation on Trump, journalist Glenn Greenwald remarked.
For many Democrats, there is one political issue and only one: Trump. He is the beginning, the middle and end. They demand every discussion of everything place him at the center. And the outcome is demented behavior like support for Liz Cheney: pic.twitter.com/Sn0r4JDwSo
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 27, 2021
Liz Cheney fires back at Trump and says she was wrong to oppose gay marriage
Congresswoman tweets response to bizarre insult before telling CBS how she plans to fight Trumpists in re-election battle
First published on Sun 26 Sep 2021 15.37 EDT
“I like Republican presidents who win re-election,” Cheney tweeted on Sunday, with a picture of George W Bush.
Bush beat John Kerry for re-election in 2004. Cheney’s father, Dick Cheney, was vice-president to Bush.
Liz Cheney’s tweet was a response to an image released by Trump on Thursday. Under the heading “ICYMI: Must-See Photo”, a Trump-affiliated political action committee sent out a Photoshopped image which spliced Liz Cheney and George W Bush.
Trump could not tweet it himself, as he remains barred from the platform for inciting the deadly assault on the US Capitol on 6 January. Cheney voted to impeach Trump over his role.
In an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes later on Sunday, Liz Cheney previewed her re-election campaign in 2022, as forces aligned with Trump try to unseat her.
“I think it’s going to be the most important House race in the country in 2022,” she said. “And it will be one where people do have the opportunity to say, We want to stand for the constitution,’” Cheney said.
“A vote against me in this race, a vote for whomever Donald Trump has endorsed, is a vote for somebody who’s willing to perpetuate the big lie, somebody who’s willing to put allegiance to Trump above allegiance to the constitution, absolutely.”
In a surprise admission, Cheney also said she had been wrong about gay marriage, which she opposed ahead of a Senate race in 2013. Her objections caused a rift with her sister, Mary, whose spouse, Heather Poe, said Cheney’s position was offensive, posting on Facebook: “I always thought freedom meant freedom for EVERYONE.”
Cheney told CBS: “I was wrong. I was wrong. It’s a very personal issue – and very personal for my family. And my sister and I have had that conversation … Freedom means freedom for everybody.”
While still opposed to gun control, abortion and the Affordable Care Act, and repeating to CBS her opinion that waterboarding is not torture, Cheney finds herself allied with Democrats over the Capitol riot.. ."
Twitter howls with laughter after Rep. Liz Cheney claims her father Dick Cheney is ‘troubled’ by direction of GOP
“My dad is deeply troubled about where our party is, deeply troubled about where the country is,” the younger Cheney declared at the Aspen Institute on Wednesday.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY): “My dad is deeply troubled about where our party is ...”When you've lost Dick Cheney ... pic.twitter.com/HhhtXQpew2
— The Recount (@therecount) August 5, 2021
Lest anyone’s stomach remain unturned, she continued that her father, whom many consider to be a driving force and key architect behind the War on Terror and all the atrocities that accompanied it, was also “just a tremendous source of advice and guidance and wisdom for me.”
Social media users were not amused at the apparent umbrage taken on behalf of the man they recalled as an unapologetic war criminal, reminding the newly virtuous ex-VP that he’d literally gotten away with murder during the George W. Bush administration . . ."
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