American Woman

Based upon their disgusting treatment of Sarah Palin during and after the 2008 presidential election, there is little doubt that the emasculated nancy-boys of the political left simply cannot tolerate an attractive articulate spokeswoman for the conservative cause. But if you require further proof, consider their disdain of Liz Cheney, daughter of the former Vice President and a political force in her own right.

On Sunday, August 30, Cheney was a guest on ABC's "This Week, where she appeared on a discussion panel opposite Sam Donaldson. Donaldson, of course, is well known for his aggressive, sarcastic style, and when the discussion turned toward the possibility of Eric Holder - the current Attorney General under Barack Obama - investigating how the CIA handled the interrogation of terrorists while George W. Bush was president, Cheney responded assertively and firmly (h/t NewsBusters):



For the Washington Post's television critic/bozo-in-residence Tom Shales, Liz Cheney's forthrightness was just too much:

There was acrimony, there were scowls and, as is a habit of Cheney's -- honed during what was for her a sort of Chatterbox Summer -- there was simultaneous talking that rendered both participants unintelligible. Cheney has a way of continuing to talk, charging forward in single-minded determination, when someone else has the floor, even if that "someone" might be moderator Stephanopoulos, who is supposed to set the agenda.

She doesn't just finish a thought, she doesn't just finish a sentence, she'll go right into a new paragraph and ignore all attempts to head her off.

In other words, she wasn't cowed by Donaldson or any of the other liberals and had the temerity to stand up for herself. But rather than seeing a formidable, articulate conservative woman effectively delineating her position, Shales sees a Sunday-morning version of trashy daytime television talk-shows:

No, this isn't Congress or the Oxford Debating Society. Decorum need not be an obsession. Among TV's talky-trots, however, "This Week" does occupy a higher plane -- in terms of tone and comportment -- than, say, "The Oprah Winfrey Show" which, in turn, can easily look down its nose at "The Jerry Springer Show," which, as we continue the trip downward, clearly exists on a higher plane than -- well, there may be nothing lower than Jerry Springer. Then again, that bad boy and his screwball guests can be awfully, lamentably, hilariously entertaining.

Springer deals in non-content talk, which television is full of, and action-talk, in which words are less relevant than the manner in which they are shrieked, jabbed or hurled.

There really are no words to effectively describe the ridiculousness of Shales's argument. To paraphrase what a journalist once said about the reaction of Wall Street financiers to Theodore Roosevelt, Tom Shales is paralyzed at the thought that a conservative woman would sink so low as to try to defend herself...or her family. And Cheney not only defended herself, but managed to put one of DC's most obnoxious loudmouths (Donaldson) in his place.

I suppose that it's only a matter of time before the usual left-wing guttersnipes (like Andrew Sullivan) start fabricating salacious lies about Liz Cheney's family, as they have done with Palin's. From such cretinous catamites, I would expect no less.