Lynne V. Cheney: Cynical Shield Maiden (Or, Is That Battle Axe?) of the Culture Wars

[CorpGovActivist]

How much do you know - or remember - about Lynne V. Cheney's role in BushCo.? Unlike traditional mafioso crime syndicates, BushCo. involves the womenfolk, and Lynne has done her part over the years.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne_Cheney

Many will recall, no doubt, Lynne's fire and brimstone sermons on the Maplethorpe exhibit, when she served as 41's Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Humanities

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maplethorpe

Of course, as she castigated the gay and lesbian community and spoke in nods, winks, and code words to the GOP base, her own daughter, Mary, was "Growing Up Cheney" - sort of like "Growing Up Gotti," only more absurd: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growing_Up_Gotti

Her work to change the "core curriculum" at colleges and universities she couldn't get into is not only laughable, but insidious in its intent to impinge upon academic freedoms, the First Amendment, and scientific thought (here's just one example of her work, continued through the "American Council of Trustees and Alumni"): http://www.google.com/search?q=lynne+cheney+core+harvard+a+curriculum+for+the+what+undergraduates++know+%22don+t+%22+site:harvard.edu&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&filter=0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Council_of_Trustees_and_Alumni

The tax status of that organization should be front and center.

In 1994, when the Gingrichites took the gavels, they did a shocking thing: they all but forbade incoming House members from attending the Harvard Kennedy School of Government orientation for incoming House members - insisting that they instead attend the boot camp run by another Lynne Cheney sub-syndicate, The American Enterprise Institute: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=american+enterprise+institute+gingrich+kennedy+school+orientation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute

This split the incoming Congressional Class of 1994. Instead of the usual opportunity to mingle across party lines afforded by one orientation session, there was "self-segregation" by the Gingrichites.

Her stint on Crossfire came when she took Tony Snow's seat. Need I say more there?

Lynne squatted on the Lockheed Martin Board of Directors, too - where her actions are still well within the statutes of limitations.

Lynne V. Cheney is the matriarch of the Cheney branch of BushCo. She's much smarter than her husband - but not smart enough to avoid indictments, methinks.

Lynne failed as a mother when she failed to stand up proudly for Mary Cheney, putting BushCo.'s interests ahead of her family's. The sad irony is, she failed BushCo., too, as history will record.

- Dave

[BlueManDude]

1. She's actually kept a fairly low profile as second lady

I've despised her for years and was prepared for her to be really out front when this administration came in but she's been surprising quiet until recently.

[CorpGovActivist]

2. Her Recent Reappearance Signifies...

... just how desperate they've become.

- Dave

[BlueManDude]

3. i think you're right about that. they are all losing it

i caught about 30 secs of laura ingraham last night and she was really ranting. a local rw talk host just got canned for offensive remarks on the air. they are losing it.

[CorpGovActivist]

4. Full-Scale Meltdown

They're doing everything except the murder-suicide thing that Adolf and Eva did, at this point.

- Dave

[CorpGovActivist]

15. Did You See Her?

Standing behind Cheney, when he ripped on Kerry this week?

She is so saccharine, it makes my teeth itch from here just watching her.

- Dave

[AzDar]

5. I remember being struck by how desperate she seemed during

the 2004 election; almost as if she were panic-stricken at the thought of Bushco. losing power.
"This is NOT a nice man"...

[CorpGovActivist]

6. They Have Every Reason to Fear...

... the gavels of "activist" judges and "activist" Members of Congress.

They have engaged in nothing short of racketeering on a massive scale, telling themselves each night that the ends justify the means.

- Dave

[AnnieBW]

7. Shield Maiden???

Comparing that bitch to Eowyn (one of the coolest literary chicks EVER) is like Tricky Ricky Santorum comparing himself to Frodo. Eowyn refused to stay at home while the men went off to war. She wanted to do her part, too. Lynne Cheney just wants women (other than herself) to stay at home and do their duty as housefraus.

[CorpGovActivist]

11. Tell Us How You Really Feel!

"Comparing that bitch to Eowyn (one of the coolest literary chicks EVER) is like Tricky Ricky Santorum comparing himself to Frodo."

LOL. I couldn't agree more. The OP headline was tongue-in-cheek - but make no mistake: there are nut jobs in the right wing that view her as Eowyn, not Shelob.

"Eowyn refused to stay at home while the men went off to war. She wanted to do her part, too. Lynne Cheney just wants women (other than herself) to stay at home and do their duty as housefraus."

They are pseudo-feminists, enabling the "Old World Order" - which is on the brink of extinction. Lynne V. Cheney and women like her will be providing fascinating fodder for centuries to come.

- Dave

[Tuesday_Morning]

8. Madame Cheney's cultural revolution

Love that title.

from Salon..

Madame Cheney's cultural revolution

How the vice president's powerful wife makes sure that historians and other scholars follow the right path
by Mary Jacoby

<snip>

Such a sweet old lady would never presume to meddle where she has no authority, would she? After all, Cheney has long shuddered at the horror of Hillary Clinton. "Mrs. Clinton got herself in a certain amount of trouble by operating from a platform where she really didn't have a mandate from the voters to establish policy," Cheney sniped to the Daily Telegraph of London in 2001. And in a Hillary-bashing forum at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in 2000, Cheney remarked about the then-first lady: "The hypocrisy is the thing that is most distressing."

<snip>


But now, unelected and unappointed, Lynne Cheney is back in charge at the National Endowment for the Humanities, operating without that pesky "mandate from the voters" through handpicked surrogates in key positions. "It's pretty obvious that she's running the agency," William Ferris, a history professor who headed the NEH from 1997 to 2001, said of Cheney.

Now conservatives view the agency as a useful tool for propagating the kind of uplifting and generally uncritical version of American history they believe necessary for national greatness, as Cheney explained in a CNN interview last year: "American history that's taught in as positive and upbeat a way as our national story deserves."

<snip>

During her chairmanship of the agency from 1986 through 1992, Cheney was known for killing research projects deemed offensive to conservative orthodoxy, scribbling "not for me!" on proposals dealing with race, gender discrimination or the legacy of slavery. She considered the endowment so irredeemably left-wing that she campaigned to abolish it. But times have changed. Republicans control the White House and Congress. Democrats are cut out of the process. Now conservatives view the agency as a useful tool for propagating the kind of uplifting and generally uncritical version of American history they believe necessary for national greatness, as Cheney explained in a CNN interview last year: "American history that's taught in as positive and upbeat a way as our national story deserves."

[CorpGovActivist]

12. Some Have Her Number - and She'd Better Get Ready for Her Close-up, Mr. DeMille...

... if Martha showed us anything, it's that the perp walk can be done with some style.

; )

- Dave

[rosesaylavee]

9. Hadn't anticipated that she would be

joining her husband and others at the tribunals. Thanks for that image! Made my day.

BTW, thank you for all that you are doing on our country's behalf. Don't we think we can thank you enough!

[CorpGovActivist]

13. Lynne V. Cheney Is a Racketeer, Too

Her time at Lockheed Martin should provide plenty of fodder for the Feds.

- Dave

[gilpo]

10. Even if Mr. Cheney does the walk of shame this weekend, what's to stop her?

Will she be dragged down and discredited by association? or is there more out there that stands alone?

[CorpGovActivist]

14. Lynne V. Cheney Is a Racketeer in Her Own Right

Her time on Lockheed Martin's Board of Directors summons Ike's warnings about the undue influence - whether sought or unsought - of the military/industrial complex.

- Dave

[IdesOfOctober]

16. His and Her...

... Federal prison terms.

Nice.

Ides

[IdesOfOctober]

17. Indictments by Easter?

Ides

[DemReadingDU]

18. His & Hers matching Easter Outfits!

:rofl:

[IdesOfOctober]

19. Instead of an Easter Egg Hunt...

... they can play find the nail file.

Ides