{"id":754,"date":"2004-10-14T14:24:23","date_gmt":"2004-10-14T18:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=754"},"modified":"2004-10-14T14:24:23","modified_gmt":"2004-10-14T18:24:23","slug":"fake-righteous-indignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=754","title":{"rendered":"Fake Righteous Indignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/CheneyFamilyGay.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Last night Lynne Cheney claimed to be &#8220;outraged&#8221;. Today, Dick Cheney said he was &#8220;a pretty angry father right now&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What a bunch of horseshit. Here&#8217;s the <i>real<\/i> tale of the tape, prior to the Cheney&#8217;s realizing they were about to lose this election and needed to say and do <i>anything<\/i> to try and win this thing.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2004\/08\/20040824-4.html\" target=\"_blank\">a townhall Q&#038;A session<\/a> with <i>both<\/i> Lynne and Dick on Aug. 24, 2004&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">DICK CHENEY: Well, the question has come up obviously in the past with respect to the question of gay marriage. Lynne and I have a gay daughter.<\/div>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.debates.org\/pages\/trans2004b.html\" target=\"_blank\">V.P. Debate<\/a> on Oct. 5, 2004&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">EDWARDS:  &#8230;let me say first that I think the vice president and his wife love their daughter. I think they love her very much. And you can&#8217;t have anything but respect for the fact that they&#8217;re willing to talk about the fact that they have a gay daughter, the fact that they embrace her&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nCHENEY: Well, Gwen, let me simply thank the senator for the kind words he said about my family and our daughter. I appreciate that very much.<\/div>\n<p>But now he&#8217;s &#8220;angry&#8221; and she&#8217;s &#8220;outraged&#8221;? Puh-lease. Desperation does funny things to folks, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night Lynne Cheney claimed to be &#8220;outraged&#8221;. Today, Dick Cheney said he was &#8220;a pretty angry father right now&#8221;. What a bunch of horseshit. Here&#8217;s the real tale of the tape, prior to the Cheney&#8217;s realizing they were about to lose this election and needed to say and do anything to try and win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=754"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}