On Tuesday night, Liz Cheney lost badly her bid for renomination in Congress. She was defeated by more than 37 points. 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 facing down against Darth Vader shortly before the election.
However, a quick look at history shows that journalists love Republican politicians based on their ability to be useful to the liberal media. 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? That Was OK Back In The Day
While Cheney is an icon in media, you would not be wrong to discredit the Congresswoman because of her father’s ex-Vice president. What about in the past years? 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.
Filming Liz Cheney’s Face Hollywood Found It Funny
Hollywood now loves Liz Cheney. In an August 10, column by Tim Graham, NewsBusters editor, Jeffrey Katzenberg (Hollywood producer) donated $43,000 for her current campaign to reelect herself. 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 then lowers his shotgun and shoots her in the head. Boom!
“MUNSCH”: Hope she was okay. She’s terrible. 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, host at MSNBC in 2013, hated Liz Cheney. 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. His infamy was not fabricated. He is an up-by the bootstraps sort 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.”
Reporters will portray Liz Cheney in the weeks and days ahead as an hero fighting for justice. Just a few years ago, the same reporters attacked Liz Cheney with some very nasty and sometimes sexist language.