Media Love Her Now, But Hated ‘Toxic’ ‘Daughter of Dracula’ Liz Cheney Then

Liz Cheney was defeated by more than 37 points on Tuesday evening in her congressional renomination contest. Journalists have been eagerly cheering Cheney 2.0 as the GOP’s Joan of Arc, willing to be burned at the political stake for principals. NBC compared her with Obi-Wan Kenobi, who was facing off against Darth Vader shortly before the election. 

However, a quick look at history will show that journalistic affection for Republican politicians is directly related to how liberal-minded that individual is. In the past, the news and entertainment media despised the “toxic” “daughter of Dracula,” freely using sexist language to mock the child of Dick Cheney.

Here’s the worst examples. 

 

Sexism Against Liz Cheney? This was okay back then

Although Cheney has been hailed as a media hero, dismissing Cheney for being her ex-Vice President would be sexist. In years past, it was fine. That was okay. 

In 2010, then-MSNBC host Ed Schultz wouldn’t judge Liz Cheney on her own merits. Instead, he used sexist language: Here he is on September 29, 2010: “There’s a couple of gals who’ve been riding the wave of crazy that’s been sweeping the nation’s right-wingers: ‘Shooter’s little girl, Liz Cheney, has been hitting the lecture circuit, parroting daddy’s fear-mongering rhetoric.” 

This edition was published on March 4, 2010. Hardball, Chris Matthews huffed that Liz Cheney was nothing more than the “daughter of Dracula.” It must be pointed out, in 2020, Matthews would abruptly retire after accusations of “objectifying and belittling” women.  

 

What’s it like to shoot Liz Cheney on the Face? Hollywood Found It Funny  

 

Hollywood now loves Liz Cheney. NewsBusters editor Tim Graham wrote in August 10 that Jeffrey Katzenberg, a Hollywood producer donated $43,000 towards her current reelection campaign. It was acceptable to make fun of killing her a few decades ago. On the September 27, 2016 episode of the Fox show Scream Queens, one of the characters recounted a hunting trip and shooting Liz Cheney. Here’s the exchange: 

“CHAD”: Liz Cheney appears suddenly. She was probably peeing. Randal raises his shotgun to shoot her directly in the face. Boom!

“MUNSCH”: Hope she was okay. It’s not true. She’s awful.

 

 

In 2022, Hollywood and the liberal media would call this kind of “joke” a sexist hate crime. 

 

The “Odious” and “Toxic” Liz 

MSNBC reporters praised Liz Cheney in 2022 for her participation at the January 6 Hearings. Chris Hayes hated Cheney in 2013 but he did love her back then. Talking about Cheney’s ultimately-failed run for Senate on July 17, 2013, he seethed, “Ms. Cheney is truly one of the most odious presences in American politics today.” Displaying the casual sexism okay only for Republican women, Hayes dismissed the female Cheney because of her dad: 

You can’t disagree with Dick Cheney about her father. He was honest about how he got into infamy. He’s a true down-by-the bootstraps type of villain. Liz Cheney, however is the knockoff. This is a legacy case. She represents what affirmative actions for whites who are not privileged enough to be able to take it.

 

 

Liz Cheney Was “Divisive” and Started a “Family Feud” Over Gay Marriage

In 2014, Cheney briefly ran for a Wyoming Senate seat. She was challenging an incumbent Republican Senator and deserved media attention. But instead, the networks bashed Liz Cheney for her “divisive” family feud with her sister Mary Cheney over gay marriage. 

On the January 6, 2014 (the day Cheney’s campaign ended) CBS This Morning, Jan Crawford again quoted Mary Cheney publicly lecturing, “You’re just wrong, and on the wrong side of history.” On the same day’s Today show, Kelly O’Donnell opined, “Her campaign was brief and divisive.” She added, “But then her campaign exposed a stunningly public family feud over same-sex marriage, when sister Mary Cheney, and Mary’s wife Heather Poe, criticized Liz’s opposition to gay marriage.”

ABC’s Good Morning America, George Stephanopoulos saw the primary campaign against incumbent conservative Mike Enzi as one that “has caused a lot of controversy, sparked a family feud.” 

 

 

 

Journalists will most likely present Liz Cheney, a heroine for justice in the coming days and weeks. Just a few years ago, the same reporters attacked Liz Cheney with some very nasty and often sexist language. 

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