Comments on: Lynne Cheney: Her Husband’s Wife http://www.liberadio.com/2007/10/11/lynne-cheney-her-husbands-wife/ with Mary Mancini & Freddie O'Connell Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:05:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Mary http://www.liberadio.com/2007/10/11/lynne-cheney-her-husbands-wife/comment-page-1/#comment-61065 Mary Fri, 12 Oct 2007 19:01:57 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/?p=972#comment-61065 Insightful analysis. I was struggling to figure out what it was about the interview that was troubling and I think you nailed it. Jon always seems nervous in these types of interviews. Perhaps it throws him off his game. Or maybe he using the entire interview as a set up to extending, and then rescinding, the VP's invite. It could be that he sincerely struggles to make sense of it all and since she's as close to he'll ever come to interviewing him, he took the opportunity to try and get some answers we haven't heard already or some speck of his humanity we haven't seen. Insightful analysis. I was struggling to figure out what it was about the interview that was troubling and I think you nailed it. Jon always seems nervous in these types of interviews. Perhaps it throws him off his game. Or maybe he using the entire interview as a set up to extending, and then rescinding, the VP’s invite.

It could be that he sincerely struggles to make sense of it all and since she’s as close to he’ll ever come to interviewing him, he took the opportunity to try and get some answers we haven’t heard already or some speck of his humanity we haven’t seen.

]]> By: Jameson http://www.liberadio.com/2007/10/11/lynne-cheney-her-husbands-wife/comment-page-1/#comment-61062 Jameson Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:39:19 +0000 http://www.liberadio.com/?p=972#comment-61062 I don't know. I love the show and I agree with his views, but I was a little disappointed with Jon. (Just a little.) Ambushing her with questions about the Iraq war as a proxy for her husband doesn't make much sense. There's no chance she'll give a straightforward answer, and it's not really Jon's responsibility to hassle her just because she's there. Coupled with the frenzy of Pavlovian applause from the audience, it alienates the controversial guests, which makes them less likely to appear in the future. It's preferable to make guests with conflicting views feel welcome, then ask questions that will result in real insight rather than practiced sound bites. It was fun to see her trip over her specious connection between Bush/Cheney's tactics and the interruption of major terrorist attacks on American soil, but the interview would've felt more substantive if he'd stuck to her book. Clearly he read it; he could've asked more questions about Dick's values and her relationship with him. I loved the question about whether he's as secretive and stubborn at home as his public persona suggests. Why not more like that? It's something Lynne could actually speak to, as opposed to whether or not we were lied into the war. (Which everyone knows we were, and everyone knows she has a responsibility to deny.) Turning her into a punching bag for the visceral thrill of a bloodthirsty audience is just mean, and as much as I personally enjoy the idea of Lynne Cheney's feelings being hurt, it's not productive and it undercuts Jon's argument. It's the kind of thing our side would castigate Sean Hannity for doing. I don’t know. I love the show and I agree with his views, but I was a little disappointed with Jon. (Just a little.) Ambushing her with questions about the Iraq war as a proxy for her husband doesn’t make much sense. There’s no chance she’ll give a straightforward answer, and it’s not really Jon’s responsibility to hassle her just because she’s there. Coupled with the frenzy of Pavlovian applause from the audience, it alienates the controversial guests, which makes them less likely to appear in the future. It’s preferable to make guests with conflicting views feel welcome, then ask questions that will result in real insight rather than practiced sound bites.

It was fun to see her trip over her specious connection between Bush/Cheney’s tactics and the interruption of major terrorist attacks on American soil, but the interview would’ve felt more substantive if he’d stuck to her book. Clearly he read it; he could’ve asked more questions about Dick’s values and her relationship with him. I loved the question about whether he’s as secretive and stubborn at home as his public persona suggests. Why not more like that? It’s something Lynne could actually speak to, as opposed to whether or not we were lied into the war. (Which everyone knows we were, and everyone knows she has a responsibility to deny.) Turning her into a punching bag for the visceral thrill of a bloodthirsty audience is just mean, and as much as I personally enjoy the idea of Lynne Cheney’s feelings being hurt, it’s not productive and it undercuts Jon’s argument. It’s the kind of thing our side would castigate Sean Hannity for doing.

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